BEIJING: Eating Out And Shopping In Beijing

If you are looking for bars, restaurants and a bit of karaoke, I would suggest going to Houhai bar street, ping an da jie, Sanlitun and Nanluoguxiang. These streets are very modern and hardly give you the feeling that you are in China. If you fancy a memorable brunch, you should try the Temple restaurant. Beigongmen is worth seeing as well, a lot of Chinese hang out there too. 

This is one of the dishes we had in Beijing. It is a rabbit dish with a little bit of chili.

Pure Lotus is one of my favourite restaurants in Beijing. It is one of the few vegetarian restaurants in Beijing, with a very special architecture and fantastic service. The venue is a bit hidden and it takes you a while to figure out how to get there, but as soon as you’ve found it, you can start enjoying your evening with a top service.

If you want to go shopping, 77th street is awesome, it is cheap and you will find cheesy stuff like shiny accessories, huge teddy bears and jumpers in Super Mario shapes etc. You will find boutiques in Xidan. It is a huge shopping street with Chinese snacks. Yaxiu market is great too.