Random Eats in Beijing – Shanxi Restaurant

Ben had a meeting at the office. He came home just in time for lunch.

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Ben and I walked to a nearby Shanxi Restaurant for lunch.

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The Shanxi Restaurant is famous for it’s hand shaved noodle.

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The restaurant even has an Ultraman looking robotic chef to shave noodle. But it was not working when I was there.

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We had beef balls and prawns noodle since this is a noodle shop.

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The noodle is al-dante and chewy.

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We also ordered a dry fry vermicelli (tung fern). It was very fragrant; perhaps fried with pork fat. There were ground pork. chopped up shrimp and dried shrimp. I love this a lot. I will order this again.

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For vegetables, we had stir fried Chinese cabbage with wood ear.

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Our main dish was a mala (numbing spicy) flavour fish with Chinese celery. Other accompaniments included wood ear, enoki mushroom, and lotus root.

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The fish was served whole with the flesh partially fillet for easy pickup with chopstick.

The meal came to RMB189 (CAD32).

This Post Has 3 Comments

  1. 3rensho

    Marvelous looking food. I’m a real noodle fan. The phrase is “al dente” btw.

  2. ubc.neuroscience@ubc.ca

    Your pictures of the vermicelli, cabbage, and ma la dish look so good that I’ve photocopied them to take home and cook them tonight!

  3. LotusRapper

    Al-dante noodles would be rather …… poetic, wouldn’t they ? [wink]

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