Emma had a craving for noodles this morning so we went to a nearby restaurant called 敦煌小亭 on Beijing Xi Lu, near Changde Lu (just to the side of the Family Mart).

If you’ve got no idea where that is because you don’t live in China- there isn’t much point in reading the rest of this I suppose, so let’s have one of those break thingies…

I’m pretty sure that it used to be a horrible dark greasy little hole of a place until a few months ago, but now it’s like being inside an Ikea catalogue. The menu was in english，and the food was spot on. We had:

  • Noodles- hand pulled, tasty, loads of them. That was Emma sorted.
  • Beef on a sizzling hot plate- tasted like the Chinese food you get in the UK. Spicy, delicious.
  • Little things that looked like miniature burgers- but were actually sliced dumplings  with a bit of meat and lettuce in the middle, looked ace, tasted OK
  • Cold cucumber and garlic- refreshing but not what I want when I’m feeling rough
  • Eggplant with garlic- anything with eggplant is OK by me
  • About 100 cups of Apricot ice tea (杏茶)- man alive this was good tea for a hangover, sour and sweet, I only stopped ordering it because the staff were giving me funny looks.

Total cost was about 60RMB.

Chinese food

On the menu there was a website address which I’ve just had a look at (is it obvious I’ve spent the whole of today surfing the internet?). It turns out to be a huge site called DianPing.com which lists and reviews restaurants across China. I’m always on the look out for new eats, so if I could read Chinese I’d be on that site all the time. Ah well.

Here’s the page where they reviewed this restaurant, here is another site in Chinese about the same place and here is a review from the ever-excellent Likealocal.cn.

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