{"id":20338,"date":"2023-06-24T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=20338"},"modified":"2023-06-24T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T12:23:23","slug":"beijing-yaoji-chaogan-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-yaoji-chaogan-restaurant","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beijing Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant is a time-honoured no-frill eatery\u00a0owned by\u00a0a family with the surname of “Yao”, \u00a0well-known for\u00a0its authentic Beijing local food.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The street-front Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

“Chaogan” (Chao Gan) literally means “Pork liver stew” or “Fried liver”, the signature dish of the restaurant. The dish of “Chaogan” is a bowl of starchy stew with slices of liver and large pig intestines flavored with much garlic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many old customers say the dish of “Pork liver stew” here is the best in Beijing,  smooth, fragrant,and  not oily, hence the name of Yaoji Chaogan given to the restaurant.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Signature Liver Stew Dish<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Another famous Beijing flavor is known as “Luzhu Huoshao”,  a kind of bean-paste stew with pieces of huo shao (dough dumplings), bean curd puffs, stewed lungs and large intestines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dish is a traditional street  food for the common folks of Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Luzhu Huoshao<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

As a westerner, probably  you don’t eat animal internal organs and have no culture of eating offal dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you can order other Beijing flavor dishes instead which are also very savoury and delicious, such as noodles and steamed buns.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Steamed buns with pork and onions fillings.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

On August 18, 2011, American Vice President Joe Biden and his entourage came to Beijing Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant, escorted by the U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They didn’t order the signature dish of Chaogan and other famous entrails dishes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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They five people asked for five bowls of noodles topped with rich stir-fried bean paste, 10 steamed buns with pork and onions, smashed cucumber salad, mountain yam salad, shredded potatoes and Coca Cola for lunch totally at 79 yuan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Inside Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

They all ate up the five bowls of traditional noodles, known as “Zhajiang” noodles – handmade noodles flavored with deep, rich stir-fried bean paste, shredded cucumber and watermelon radish.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The restaurant is just below the east side of Drum Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Biden’s visit is a big boost to the long-time already popular family run eatery. Everyday, Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant is packed with diners, who very often need to wait for one hour for a table, cheap and delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n

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American Vice President Joe Biden and his entourage eating at Yaoji Chaogan \uff08This photo is from internet, any copyright, please let us know\uff09<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Plan your Beijing tour<\/a><\/strong>? Next time, if you are going to visit Drum Tower or Bell Tower in Beijing, it is worth dropping in for a bowl of Zhajiang noodle or a few steamed buns to feed yourself, a kind of Beijing locavore travel experience.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Beijing Bell Tower to the northwest of Yaoji Chaogan Restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Its address: No.311, Gulou Dongdajie (just below the east side of Drum Tower), \u9f13\u697c\u4e1c\u5927\u8857311\u53f7. Tel: 010-84010570.  Business Hour: 06:00 – 22:30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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