Imperial Cuisine (Guanfu Cai)

Old Beijing had many high-ranking officials who demanded that regional homemade cooking be served to the imperial courts. Regional recipes were collected in the capital and survived much historical tumult. The cuisine favours natural ingredients, exquisite condiments, long cooking times and intricate cooking utensils.

The Tanjia Restaurant is the best example of Beijing 's imperial cuisine and provides a combination of Cantonese and Beijing cuisine featuring seafood. After the founding of the Republic, Premier Zhou Enlai asked that the restaurant move Beijing Hotel, the best hotel in China at that time. Imperial cuisine is still available there on the seventh floor of the hotel's Building C.

Tanjia Cuisine
7/F, Beijing Hotel, 33 Dong Chang An Jie, Dongcheng District

Lijia Cuisine
11 Yangfang Hutong, Deshengmen Dajie, Xicheng District

Bajia Dazhaimen
29 Suzhou Lu, Haidian District