Food Court of Chaofugong - Beijing

After getting up at 4:30 am in Shanghai to catch a 7 am flight to Beijing, we were driven to our hotel to catch up on some sleep. The ride was supposed to take 1/2 hour, but because it was rainy --> traffic sucked and it ended up taking us two hours to get to our hotel. We checked in and decided to explore our lunch options in the hotel:

Food Court of Chaofugong

Very nice cutlery

The view of the restaurant

Fried pork and leek dumplings

There was a lot of leek inside - so much so that I thought we ordered vegetarian dumplings instead of pork and leek. The skin was nicely fried and crunchy at the tips, but the filling wasn't that great.

Steamed dumplings

The inside of the dumpling: white radish, peas, mushrooms and carrots

The dumplings tasted bland even with all these ingredients inside.

Fried noodles with chicken and squid

There was lots of squid and it was oily and bland.

Chinese broccoli (kai-lan) with a spicy sauce and hoisin sauce

This is a relatively simple and classic dish - they boiled the kai-lan until the stems were tender and used the sauces to add flavour to the kai-lan

Overall: Probably not the best way to start our trip in Beijing, but we were limited in our lunch options since the hotel was quite a distance away from the center of the city.

Website: http://www.jadepalace.com.cn/en/dining_04.html