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Chinanews on December 21 according to Canadian “World News”, the Christmas festival will soon approach, many populace grasp last to carry on the gift big purchase in the weekend, the market are fully occupied. Although the human tide compared had some rises last year, the Chinese market shop owner actually said that Christmas day has not had the effect to the popularity, business is ordinary. Some owners only pointed out that during Christmas long vacation, many Chinese populace return to Asia to visit relatives, business instead has slides to the tendency.

Before Christmas day, the last weekend, governs the article the Yaohan market especially to go shopping located at the row completely and dined the Chinese populace, crowded, but the business to actually has the different feeling to the popularity; Warm room’s proprietress Marz pointed out that last year during the Christmas, meets the financial storm and rare heavy snow by chance, business slides near half. This year the weather coordination, the economy also has some recoveries, popularity “absolutely is many which was better than last year”. In the shop sells the household and present, the boss indicated that the adult buyer thing, the child buys the present, two kinds of categories both sell was better than last year.

Clothing store holiday human tide actually universal desolate. Sales clerk Wang Tai pointed out that the Chinese populace celebrating a holiday atmosphere is pale, recently the human tide has not promoted obviously; Miss Li said that “human was are more than last year, but taking out money really bought the customer population, has not actually risen are too many”. Does not sign female shop owner said that last year the heavy snow lost human tide, this year backflow most, but the common Chinese business mainly did the frequent guest business, will not aim at Christmas day discounts or carries on the promotion, therefore during the Christmas, business will not have the obvious rise.

The shop owner who does Jan meal business in the food plaza said that although has the recovery tendency gradually this year boomingly, the human tide also compared were many last year, but the school put the Christmas to be false, many Chinese populace then early by airplane returned to Asia to take vacation, at the end of the year business instead lonely which came compared to other months.

Chooses boots’ young lady also to indicate in the dressmaker that last year the heavy snow, was disinclined to go out the purchase, this year the state of roads is normal, goes out the wish to be higher than many, the spending probability also relatively enhances.

Leads the children to stroll Mr. Chen in toy store to point out that last year under the booming depression does not dare to spend at will, the control expenditure is very discrete, but the situation as if there is change for the better, made one feel relieved many, is willing to spend gratuity and family member. (Xiao Weilun)

(This article originates: China News)

Chinanews on December 21 according to Taiwan “United News Evening Paper”, raids consecutively for several days of cold current, Taiwan various hospitals emergency room pushes to explode, some hospital seeing a doctor sickness increase sharply 3 and 40%. The Taipei Medical University sets up as an attachment hospital emergency medical treatment medicine discipline director Cai Zhuocheng to count the discovery, in this wave cold current, the emergency medical treatment went see a doctor the heart sickness to be specially many, from the symptom light hypertension, to condition serious myocardial infarction and heart rhythm does not put in order has; Has the mature person because of the day to be also cold, but myocardial infarction, is almost fatal.

Cai Zhuocheng said that these sickness are more than midnight to drop down to early morning’s time interval, because the temperature was at that time lowest, the heart blood vessel meets the cold sudden contraction, is very easy to have problems.

New light hospital ER director Wang Zonglun reminded long-term smoking the maturity to pay attention the health. He explained that all day long these fight tribal grouping tribal group, if long-term smoking, the heart blood vessel were possibly narrow, usually the blood stream quantity also suffices, is not easy to realize the difference, once the weather suddenly changes cold, the blood clot blocking narrow blood vessel place, possibly drops down because of myocardial infarction.

Wang Zonglun admitted some 40-year-old seeing a doctor cases recently, is the first outbreak, the vigilance is mostly insufficient, just started only to think the chest to be stuffy, the polypnoea, braves the cold sweat to go see a doctor immediately urgently. Because myocardial infarction both anxiously and fierce, when delivers the medicine symptom already quite serious, if has not administered first aid promptly, fears the fatal risk.

(This article originates: China News)

(This article originates: People.com)

　　Material picture: On May 4, in Nepalese capital Katmandu, Nepalese Union Communist party (Mao Zhuyi) president Pulachang reached through the television makes the speech, announced that resigned from premier. Xinhua News Agency/Reuters

　　According to American Bloomberg News on 21st the Communist Party of Nepal (Mao Zhuyi) yesterday initiated the national general strike, caused the store to close down business, transportation to be affected greatly. The supporters and police erupt the conflict, causes many injured. The report said that since this has been Nepal altogether withdraws from the government, they organize biggest scale protest activities.

　　According to report, the demonstrator lights the tire, the destruction passing vehicles, and throws the stone to the government functionaries and so on. But the police use the high-pressured water cock, tear gas and so on, attempted to drive away the demonstration crowd. According to the Nepalese local media, demonstrator plans to initiate the demonstration today and tomorrow.

　　Nepal altogether last year won the election, his head Pulachang reached once took the post of the premier; But in May, because of the recall army head question, Pulachang reaches with the president has the dispute, and is compelled to resign. Pulachang reached in the conference said in Nepali Communist party the day before yesterday that they to break deadlocks other parties carried on among the government was defeated diligently.

　　The protest activities will continue for three days, Pulachang reach the commitment protest to carry on peace. But Nepalese government spokesmen confirmed that protester lit 4 vehicles, the police has detained 10 radical members. The authority also indicated that because protest time is not long, will not cause other food and daily necessity supplies is anxious. (Round the world Times special correspondent Wang Kai report)

　　(Origin: China News) (this article originates: China News)

New China net Beijing, December 21 – topic: The Sino-French nuclear power project shows Chinese improvement energy source structure determination

New China net recording Hao Yalin Lin Zheng Xiaoyi Luan Zhou Yingfeng

Sino-French biggest clear clean energy joint capital business industry – - Taiwan mountain nuclear power jointly-operated limited company on 21st lifted the good unveiling ceremony in Beijing.

Before this is in an item, country the electricity strength domain throws the capital gauge mold biggest outside joint capital business industry, the registration capital capital amounts to 16.74 billion Yuan high. If this gauge mold Pang Da cooperation item of item helps the strong strength pushes China, France in the clear clean energy source sphere has not cooperated, clear obviously country improvement energy source structure firm determination.

The country State Council courtyard vice-premier manages Li Keqiang to be strong, in this company uncovers the sign and in the Taiwan mountain nuclear power station operation meter type the table shows, the Taiwan mountain nuclear power station is the Sino-French clear clean energy cooperation significant item of item, pushes to enter the nuclear energy technology regarding China, France the first use, deepens two countries after the trade relations, presses the pair of side relational development to have the product extremely and vital significance.

French premier the Philippines forever the table will show in meter type, the France hopes that constructs to have this item has the world first-class standard nuclear power station, and hopes that deepens with the China country in the nuclear fuel reprocessing and personnels cultivates to teach, the fourth generation of reactor to pile to grind system development and other domain the cooperations, altogether with development country border market.

The Taiwan mountain nuclear power jointly-operated limited company throws the capital to set up by the country broad east nuclear power consortium and French Strength Company according to 70% and 30% ratio examples. Does for Taiwan mountain nuclear power station issue of labor Cheng Xiangmu the impersonal entity, this company negative responsibility issue of labor regulation’s capital Jin Choucuo, constructs to suppose and to transport Ying He to manage.

Taiwan mountain nuclear power station one issue of labor regulation total investment 49.85 billion Yuan, pick with Europe enter to press water reactor technology (EPR) to construct first to suppose two machine groups, the unit capacity are 1.751 million tiles, before is in an item, world the unit capacity biggest nuclear power unit group.

Delimits according to the idea, issue of labor Cheng Jianshe the labor time is 52 months, when two machine groups separately and in October, 2014 will throw into business industry to transport the line at the end of 2013, the year surfer electricity quantity approximately 26 billion kilowatt-hours.

Country broad east nuclear power consortium director long Qian Zhimin said that before the item, issue of labor Cheng Hudao, Chang Guidao and auxiliary helps facility’s earth to construct the labor regulation to begin comprehensively; Labor Cheng Sheji, the equipment manufacturer and present field construction and manufacture domestically and other labor makes the exhibition from main along the advantage.

“After issue of labor regulation two machine groups construct, may reduce the few electricity coal to disappear every year to consume approximately 10.5 million tons, reduces the few greenhouse gas platoon to put approximately 22.7 million tons, protects the tribute to offer to link boundary Bulgaria is equal to planting more than 3400 hectares forests, to optimize the Zhujiang Delta angle area energy source structure, will increase the strong area territory sustainable development ability display to press to do to use.”He said.

Does and disappears to spend the great nation for Asian and world important energy production, the country tried to improve the energy source structure in recent years unceasingly, on the one hand thrusts greatly to the traditional stone energy low carbon and clear purification transformation; On the one hand Gao Du takes seriously to develop the new and renewable source of energy, these, the nuclear power is an important development side approaches.

Besides the Taiwan mountain nuclear power station, country An Pai began the nuclear power station also to have in addition outside 4 this year, settles down separately in Zhejiang river three and mountain east Haiyang and east Hainan Changjiang and mountain Rong Cheng. Presently, including mountain nuclear power station, had 4 nuclear power stations along advantage beginning construction. The country became the world to construct nuclear power unit group most countries.

China pledged that strives the non-fossil energy to account for an energy use proportion to achieve about 15% to 2020. According to the nuclear power industry development project, at the appointed time, China will complete 13 nuclear power stations, has 58 1 million kilowatts level nuclear power unit, the power rate proportion accounts for the national power rate over 6%.

“China, France the nuclear power cooperates non-often succeeds. The country into the nuclear power big development step section, enhances the country border cooperation to be advantageous to speeding up the nuclear power development of country’s, presses the festival to reduce the platoon, can do to accumulate the tribute for the world to the climatic change to offer extremely.”Country Development and Planning Commission Energy Research institute former president Zhou Dade said.

“China, France adjust technological innovation and energy stand alone, two countries in the cooperation of clear clean energy source sphere will manifest even more double side in the world link guarantees as well as should to the climate change issue in responsible, no matter what manner. We will press the double side through letter spirit mutually the cooperation.”The Philippines will forever say. (This article originates: New China net)

The local police once through inviting the reporter watched, the experience and other way response public to question

Hangs oneself, paper money to operate the handcuff and shoelace to hang oneself ……On December 12, stole suspect Xing Kun to hang oneself after Kunming Police station Wuhwa Sub-bureau Xiaonanmen Local police station the event occurred, receives the society highly to pay attention, at each large network forum has also had many new terms because of this matter.

The press conference situation which regarding Kunming Police station and Kunming Procuratorate holds, the public and web cam raised all sorts of questions.

On December 19 4:30 pm, had along with the provinces and cities forensic expert to the appraisal of death of Xing enormous legendary fish has hung oneself the death final conclusion, the Wuhua District People’s Procuratorate in front of has also informed at that afternoon 5:20 this result the bereaved.

Meanwhile, local police through inviting reporter watches, experience and other ways, responded the paper money to operate the handcuff and shoelace whether may bear adult weight and other questions.

When regarding the newest response of police, the Beijing flag reflects Attorney Liu in Xiaoyuan the law office to accept in the morning “Legal system Evening news” reporter interviewed indicated that in the yunnan police newest response, still omitted some crucial questionable points, Liu Xiaoyuan suggested that the local police should announce monitors the video recording completely.

Occurs after the event, Liu Xiaoyuan has paid attention to this document to progress, and maintains the relation with Xing enormous legendary fish family member.

The attorney questioned

The police new view still saved five big questionable points

The attorney questioned

1

Why the time differs for 8 hours

Attorney Liu Xiaoyuan said that first is Xing enormous legendary fish enters the period of five days to ask in the room time the questionable point.

Liu Xiaoyuan said that the police notified to say at the first press conference, Xing Kun is shut in the period of five days to ask the room was on 12th about 4:00 am. But the second cover office broadcast’s monitoring video recording fragment, demonstrated in 11th 7:29 pm, Xing Kun has sat in the period of five days asked a room of cot had on.

“Will police’s view, with the video recording demonstration’s time, why differ for more than 8 hours? How should this explain?”Liu Xiaoyuan raised the question.

The attorney questioned

2

The dead can “supple body technique”

Xing Kun both hands are counter-handcuffs in the behind, how does he is circle both hands from the behind before the body? This police on 19th have not made the demonstration.

Liu Xiaoyuan said that in police the notification, said Xing Kun is circles counter-handcuffs’ both hands from the under foot before the body, this view was questioned before this also by the web cam.

Liu Xiaoyuan will say, since operates the handcuff with the paper money, many crime person metropolises, is not the unique skill, that Xing enormous legendary fish can circle counter-handcuffs’ both hands from the under foot before the body, this kind “won’t supple body technique” be the unique skill?

Why does not call which available paper money to hold handcuff’s being in custody suspect, gives the reporters to demonstrate publicly?

The attorney questioned

3

Loss “wished surname friend”

The police said when the second press conference, interrogates Xing enormous legendary fish he had the friend who a surname wished to present, witnesses Xing Kun to acknowledge the complete delinquent account.

But, the media reported before according to the above, Xing Kun girlfriend said in the evening truly has the person who a surname wished her to call, to say Xing Kun did not have what matter. But Xing Kun family member expressed in the relatives and friends simply not to be surnamed wishes.

Attorney Liu Xiaoyuan said that after Xing’s Kun is seized and brought to by the owner of lost articles the local police station, is who informs the appearance which the surname wished at present is still the question.

According to the common sense, the police will not inform friend appearance of the suspect. “Even if suspect’s friend arrived at the local police station, in the interrogation is impossible to let his audit on the scene. Why when interrogates will have the person who a surname wished to present, this person and Xing Kun were anything relates, the police had not made the explanation to this questionable point.”

The attorney questioned

4

The scene collects evidence the picture should publicize

Attorney Liu said that according to police’s view, Xing Kun when the period of five days asked room “hanging oneself”, happen to hid in has monitored head’s scotoma area. However, the period of five days asked that a room of gate will not monitor the blind spot in the position, if at that time also had other people to go, may also monitor.

“This means that on 13th early morning discovered Xing Kun dies asked the room when the period of five days, from the police passes and out to investigate afterward to move to corpse and other processes, should also be able to monitor to obtain.”Attorney Liu said that “moreover defers to the common sense, the police after discovering Xing Kun dies, should the position which lies down to the corpse, the handcuff, paper money and shoelace discarding place, carries on the photograph evidence collection, whether these pictures should also publicize?”

The attorney questioned

5

The video recording has not made an appearance completely

Attorney Liu Xiaoyuan told the reporter, passed to his picture according to Xing enormous legendary fish family member, Xing enormous legendary fish corpse back had one obviously likely is the forcing mark which crossed with the string bundle, how this trace produced, the police did not have an explicit explanation.

“Even if before this has reported that said when it is held is by the human with the leather belt and shoelace bundle, but from him to the local police station, arrived at the death again, in such long time, leather belt and shoelace bundle trace will preserve whether also on the body, was a question, whether this should also explain?”Liu Xiaoyuan said that must let the media, web cam and family member no longer questioned, most essential, the yunnan police should publicize monitors the video material completely.

“According to police’s view, Xing Kun is a person in the period of five days asked that the room has stayed very long time, this monitoring video material will not involve other people’s privacy, say nothing is the national secret, that why records does not give the family member to look completely? Can’t give the media publicly? These are the questionable points, still cannot obtain the explanation.”Attorney Liu expressed. Article/reporter Wang Nan

The reporter confirms

The paper money can also operate the handcuff

Although the police announced part monitoring video recording to confirm this matter, but as if has not obtained everybody’s approval, particularly “paper money opened handcuff” and “shoelace can hang oneself” the question, looked like in many people simply unthinkably.

However, the day before yesterday, a volunteer actually on own initiative to media newspaper material: “Wants the method to be appropriate, any person may use the paper money to turn on the handcuff!”

Under reporter’s request repeatedly, this volunteer finally agreed that live demonstration “paper money operates handcuff”. The day before yesterday 2:00 pm, this volunteer came finally, the reporter borrowed a handcuff from the Kunming media center security wing.

“Actually handcuff’s technology content is not high, operates the handcuff operating other locking device kto prevent goings is simpler, so long as the method is appropriate, any adult can achieve, is only the duration question. Certainly new handcuff must be difficult to start, because its gap is small, is difficult to hold ……” this volunteer to fold one 1 Yuan paper money. “Wants the method to be appropriate, Lian Baozhi, paper napkin may also hold start the handcuff.”

After folding the paper money, has only used the short 12 seconds, the handcuffs good handcuff promptly opened in this volunteer hand.

“Actually wants frequently with the locking device kto prevent going, particularly person who has to do with the handcuff, basically can this technology. Xing Kun once because of burglary, but four times are put in prison, this should not be the difficult problem for him.”This volunteer said.

Looks that can turn on handcuff so easily, the reporter immediately “acknowledging as teacher”, is operating the handcuff with this volunteer study.

The nail divided, the finger lane to hurt ……In any case, the handcuff is entirely still, more than a half hours later, the reporter gives up experimenting personally.

Shoelace load-bearing 70 kilograms will not break

Can the shoelace hang oneself? Is it long enough? Whether to withstand has resulted in weight of the person?

The reporter found, Xing enormous legendary fish body weight about 65 kilograms, hang oneself puts on the high gang travel shoes are “511”, shoes belt length 172 centimeters.

According to this information, the day before yesterday, the reporter the shoes picture which announced according to the police, sought in Kunming’s outdoors thing market was very long, finally in the Kunming scenery star flower-and-bird market, Jinbi Road and other in the outdoors thing exclusive agency, had found entirely alike “511” high gang travel shoes.

According to the shop owner, “511” black shoes are “the American military shoes”, the waterproofing, ventilation, skid prevention and anti-static electricity, vibration-proof and other performance are very good, market selling price in 700 Yuan – 1000 Yuan different, many sport amateurs very much to like this kind of shoes.

“Does this kind of shoes’ shoelace have 170 centimeters to be long?”The shop owners introduced that many outdoors use shoes, Gao Bangxie shoelace is specially very long, 170 centimeters shoelaces did not calculate that is very long.

Was saying, the shop owner loosens this pair “511” shoes’ shoelace, really has 171 centimeters after the survey, “this is not strange, compared to this longer shoelace.”

Then, this kind of shoelace load-bearing performance how? The shop owners introduced that this kind of shoes’ shoelace is anti-the parachute cord, the load-bearing performance is very high. For proof shoelace’s load-bearing, the reporter has borrowed two shoelaces from the shop owner, carries on the examination to a gymnasium.

Everybody ties up two shoelaces on a high structure, then uses to increase the barbell piece the way to aggravate gradually.

When under everybody’s help, 70 kilograms heavy barbell pieces hangs cautiously to the shoelace, the shoelace is also safe.

Expert view

Handcuff structure “it’s that simple”

Kunming unblanking industry association is Yunnan only one unlocks the association, is unblanking unit which authenticates through the Kunming public security crew, is locks industry authority. Quite has the research gold strong association president when mentioning handcuff’s technical question to each kind of locking device kto prevent going in spoke frankly: Handcuff’s principle is very simple, with locking the structure is completely different.

Mentions near future hot topic of discussion “Xing Kun hanging oneself document”, broadly questioned “paper money operates handcuff” this detail, Jin Qiang said: “With similar cardboard and plastic goods, may turn on the handcuff. Handcuff’s structure is the rack and card tooth union, some places additionally built freely against have dialed the piece, so long as but had the hard object, against dialed the piece to open out from the clamp, the handcuff may open with ease. Turns on the handcuff with the paper money, completely has the possibility.”

President Jin believes that the handcuff and lock cannot be generally spoken, should not put them on the same place comparison, “we do not have conscientiously to study to the handcuff, because of its structure it’s that simple.”

News playbacking

Xing Kun, male, 29 years old. Before dawn has stolen on because of October 7 in some Kunming commercial city the value 50,000 Yuan PSP palms the mechanical games, by Wuhua District Xiaonanmen local police station putting a case on file and beginning investigations.

On December 11, the owner of lost articles disposed stolen goods Xing Kun caught one with the goods, seizes and brings to the local police station.

On December 11 11:30, the Xiaonanmen local police station left alone the interrogation to Xing Kun legally. On 12th about 4:00 am, Xing Kun is closed into the local police station period of five days to ask the room; On 12th about 7:00 am, Xing Kun was discovered that in the local police station period of five days asked indoor died.

On December 19 4:30 pm, the forensic expert had to the appraisal of death of Xing enormous legendary fish “has hung oneself death” final conclusion.

Meanwhile, local police through inviting reporter watches, experience and other ways, responded the paper money to operate the handcuff and shoelace whether may bear adult weight and other questions. Reporter Zhu Zhihua

(Origin: Ocean net)

(This article originates: Ocean net)

New China net Beijing, December 21 – (by Wang Xi) department of commercial affairs import and export fair trade bureau chief Zhou Xiaoyan on 21st said that next year the Chinese import and export faces the situation will be more complex sternly, the trade relief work or will face a more tremendous pressure.

When Zhou Xiaoyan was on 21st does the guest department of commercial affairs department website and net friend entered a line of exchange makes the above table to show.

Protects the main righteousness to rise in country border trade Bulgaria the warm situation unceasingly, since this year country bitter experience’s trade Morocco scratches the case number quantity and amount creates the history to be highest. The truncation to November, altogether some 19 countries and place area initiates “two counter-two Bulgaria” trade relief accent to look up 103 to the country, its instead leans sells 67, instead makes up pastes 13, Bulgaria bonds handles executes 16, guarantees 7 especially. Outside this, the country also encounters the American 337 accents to look up 6. Involved aggregate amount altogether approximately 12 billion US dollars.

Scratches case number quantity and amount besides trade Morocco creates the history to be highest, the locking nature which continually country product bitter experience trade Morocco scratches underlines. Zhou Xiaoyan shows shows, the steel iron, shoes class, toy, the aluminum product, the wheel embryo and so on country traditional superiority export products frequently present a product looks up in the different market bitter experience trade relief accent present to look like, present Morocco to scratch the country not to expand disperse and provide relief handle Shi Diejia potential head.

Facing lifts head’s trade Bulgaria to protect the main righteousness day by day, the department of commercial affairs department, on the one hand governs the negotiation, to discuss that through the politics sentenced to consult business and legal plea, industry the cooperation and tour said and other side types “doing multiple things at the same time”, accumulated should scratch the document to each kind of trade Morocco extremely, on the other hand the surface according to the law and guest observed, transports fairly and reasonably with the trade relief handles executes, Uygur protected in the country industrial An Quan.

According to Zhou Xiaoyan, since this year, department of commercial affairs altogether outward initiates the antidumping to investigate 8 and counter-subsidy to investigate 3; Also makes the ruling to 8 antidumping cases and 1 counter-subsidy case. On December 10, the department of commercial affairs to the orientation electrotechnical steel which imported from the US “double zed” investigation made initially cuts the ruling, caused China to become minority can completely the antidumping, the counter-subsidy and safeguard mechanism which one of three kinds of trade relief measure WTO members permitted using the WTO regulation.

Zhou Xiaoyan said that in 2010 the country foreign trade faces the situation will be more complex sternly, the trade relief labor does will face presses the strength greatly. She shows shows, the world recovers after Jinan slow slow, but Qu Zhe, in various countries’ protectorate country the market and struggle will seize competition of country border market to struggle day by day will still stir up fiercely, simultaneously melted into after Jinan globalization and participational country border to divide the work along with more and more developing countries, the country department industry and developing country industry homogeneity hastened, competed to struggle the surface to expand in a big way, will produce trade Morocco to scratch. (This article originates: New China net)

Culture of eating well has blossomed in China

My last houseguest had 13 restaurants on his to-try list, including three renowned for succulent versions of crisp-skinned Peking duck, one popular for its tongue-tingling Sichuan cuisine and a Uighur joint, known as much for the ethnic minority’s cumin-spiced lamb skewers as its exuberant floor show.

Today’s Beijing has eateries at every corner. Here, a waitress serves a dish at the Whampoa Club. [Agencies] 
“I never thought Beijing would have so many things!” he said hungrily after hours of online research.
Gone are the days when the traditional Chinese greeting “Have you eaten yet?” seemed like a bad joke in the capital where, as recently as the 1980s, staples were rationed, state-run canteens dished out the slop of the day in chipped enamel bowls and restaurants were few and far between.
Today’s Beijing is packed with eateries at every corner, open at all hours and offering regional cuisines of all kinds — a reflection of China’s stunning economic success after almost three decades of growth.
And the run-up to the August 8 Beijing Olympics has underscored the quantum leap in the quality and variety of fare on offer, with menus and manners being polished in anticipation of the crowd of 500,000 visitors during the games.
From al dente hand-pulled noodles splashed with bracing black vinegar from Shanxi province in the north, to fingernail-sized chicken pieces buried in a mountain of dried chilies from Sichuan in the southwest, to the rich, sweet braises of the east, there is something to pique every palate. Don’t forget the street food — handmade pork buns, candied fruit and egg, lettuce and crisp fried dough rolled in a freshly made flour crepe, a Chinese burrito of sorts.
And that’s just from within the country.
Ocean fresh. Persian grilled meats and stews? In the heart of the city. Fish and chips? Beer-batter or breadcrumbs, take your pick. Greek, Vietnamese, Italian, German, French, Ethiopian, Spanish, Singaporean, even kosher … the list goes on.

A vendor at the Wangfujing Street shopping area sells starfish, as well as skewered scorpions. [Agencies] 
“Simply put, we’ve gone from eating just to fill our stomachs to the stage where we are open to the complete pleasures of the dining experience,” says Chitty Chung, editor-in-chief of Beijing’s Food & Wine magazine.
That includes not only an awareness of a restaurant’s environment, the chef’s concepts, quality of service, the pairing of food and wine, and nutritional balance, but also a willingness try new things, says Chung, who recommends Dadong Roast Duck Restaurant not only for the namesake fowl, but also for its light modern twist on traditionally heavy Shandong fare.
“People’s eyes are opening up and they are becoming more international. They are ready to accept and taste food from other parts of the world,” she says. “The choices are far beyond your imagination.”

Most recommended restaurants in Beijing’s Houhai area

 By Xinhua writer Jiang Xufeng 
Collin, a diner at Barbeque Ji Restaurant in Houhai with his American friend Laurie is reacquainting himself with this “renowned Muslim restaurant”, which has hosted figures such as former U.S. President George Bushand is adjacent to the former residence of Soong Ching-ling.
They are enjoying a plate of stir-fired snow pea and the roast lamb kept hot on a candle stove, a must at the eatery founded by chef Ji Decai during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) that has catered to diners for 160 years.
The century-old recipe includes several critical steps: select choice lamb and beef, pickle and barbecue them on the specially made grill with onion, coriander and other spices. The dish was a favorite with the nobility living in the lake area when the restaurant opened.
The best way to eat the meat is to make a Chinese “beef/lamb burger” by stuffing the meat into a pre-sliced baked wheaten cake.
Chinese beans, vegetable hors d’oeuvres, quick fried white turnip, spiced beef and laurel-lotus roots are most popular starters.
Beijing roast duck here is less greasy compared with some other roast duck eateries in the city as Barbeque Ji has its own finely selected duck breed.
Other popular main dishes include curry beef, savory beef, roast lamb back, braised ox tail, grilled beef cutlets, diced chicken with chili pepper, chicken with cashew nut, deep-fried prawns, stir-fried asparagus and sauted celery and lily.
The small dish is enough for two and the large for more than three.
Sipping 5-year-old Chinese rice wine beneath pictures from ancient Chinese mythology at the lakeside restaurant is a very oriental experience.
You can ask the waiter to spice up your rice wine with salted plums and take away the porcelain wine bottle as a souvenir.
The chef’s own plum juice can cool you off on a sweltering summer day.
The three-storey traditional building is set against the Yinding Bridge (Silver Ingot Bridge), at the southeast end of the lake, about 15 minutes walk from the southern gate of the lake.
The servings at the always-packed restaurant have diminished over the years and the service during peak hours is a bit slow.
So be patient. You can spend the wait by the Yinding Bridge with a view of the mountains in the west of Beijing if it is a clear day. This is rated as one of the eight best views of the ancient city.
Phone number: 8610 6404-2554.
Opening time: 11:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
English menu available and major credit cards accepted.
You would spend around 60 yuan (8.8 U.S. dollars) to 80 yuan for a meal per person on average here. 

Besides the tasty food at Barbeque Ji for lunch, Collin has much more to share with his friend. For instance, he can show her along the meandering Yandaixie Street (Tobacco Pipe Lane) just at the back of Barbeque Ji, a 300-meter-plus, time-honored twisting road scattered along with many souvenir shops.
When you cross Yinding Bridge and walk for about five minutes to the south, you will run into a hotpot eating house along the bar street, ideally set in an old siheyuan (four-sided enclosed yards), with a perfect view of the street and lake. 
Hongyuan Nan Men Hotpot
If you are a hotpot lover, you have loads of choices in Beijing. If you are a bar-flyer, you also have many options in Houhai. But having a hotpot meal at a siheyuan in Houhai, Nan Men Hotpot would be the premium destination.
Nan Men (South Gate) got its name when the first of its eight branches opened a decade ago next to the south gate of the Temple of Heaven in southern Beijing.
Although hotpot meals have gone through many changes, the traditional Beijing-style large copper pot with pure-water broth that you can have in Nan Men remains many people’s unchanged favorite.
However, you can order one separate small pot for each around the table, a finely eclectic practice between the Chinese and Western dining styles.
The prices here are fair, for you would spend around 50 yuan per person to buy a decent meal with a group of friends.
You will find most diners boiling and supping on a plate of fresh and exquisite lamb or beef from Inner Mongolia, Chinese cabbage, spinach, sliced yam, sliced potato or other veggies, and quaffing a local Yanjing beer.
Two specialties of the hotpot chain are its chef-made sesame sauce with chopped onion, peanut and coriander and its mouth-watering sesame wheaten cake (either a baked one or a deep-fried one).
If you want to enjoy supper under the sky, you have to be early to get one of the six tables outside in the courtyard, although the surrounding street environment is actually too bustling for a quiet meal.
Phone number: 8610 6616-7033 (Chinese speaking service only).
Opening time: 11 a.m. to midnight.
Major credit cards accepted. 
After a hearty hotpot meal, if you take a stroll along the narrow hutong at the gate of Nan Men Hotpot to the south for several minutes, you will find an eatery in the real depth of the hutong. Moreover, the food here is likely something you are familiar with. 
Hutong Pizza
You will find this five-year-old restaurant in a two-storied structure with a shabby outlook in the real depth of the hutong. Accordingly, its name is “Hutong Pizza.”
When asked about the structure’s history, even the manager of the eatery could not tell for sure whether the building was a former residence of an influential official in the Qing Dynasty or a Buddhist convent of nuns. However, the painted rafters and the creaking sound from the wooden stairs of the building tell how many passersby it has witnessed.
From the wooden bridge, bamboo, fish pond and rockery, you can get a glimpse of what Chinese fengshui means. For food there are 11 vegetarian and seafood pizzas and 13 meaty pizzas for choices. The handwritten menu blackboard is in English and tells of what’s on offer.
Mediterranean, veggie mania, carnivore carnival and roast chicken and bacon pizzas are recommended.
On the first page of the menu, there is a lovely reminder that”a small pizza (30 cm 30 cm) is suitable for one (very hungry) person or two (hungry) people. A large pizza (30 cm 50 cm) is suitable for two (very hungry) people to four (hungry) people.”
Snacks like crispy jacket potato skins with garlic dip are warmly welcomed among foreign hutong explorers.
If you want to enjoy more tastes during your Houhai gastronomic odyssey, you can order combined pizzas here, either a combination of two different toppings to make one small pizza, or three different toppings together to make one large pizza.
Sipping a beer or a soup in the ambiance of the rattan-plaited bookshelf, big wooden chairs and Tibetan pictures on the wall, you will feel at home, although you may also find the light on the second floor too dim.
Phone number: 8610 6617-5916.
Opening time: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
English menu. Cash only, no credit cards accepted.
You would spend around 70 to 90 yuan for a meal per person on average here.

Three famous old Beijing restaurants

As the host city of the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing is famous for its food. Here are a few suggestions on what to try when visiting the Chinese capital.
Above all, Beijing Roast Duck is the most famous. There is a saying that you could not have been to Beijing if you had not eaten the Quanjude roast duck.
Quanjude was established 134 years ago during Emperor Tongzhi’s reign during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) by Yang Quanren. The businessman earned his living by providing ducks and chicken in the market before moving into selling roast ducks.
Different from other businessmen, Yang employed a cook who had served in the imperial kitchen before. The cook introduced many secretive recipes which soon helped popularize the restaurant with local officers of the emperor’s court.
The reputation of Quanjude then grew by its good management, delicious dishes and colorful history.
What makes this specialty at a Quanjude restaurant exceptional is the particular care taken by the chefs to make the roast duck as lip-smacking as possible. The average weight of each bird used at the restaurant is approximately 2.5 kg.
In addition, efforts are made to ensure that only the best quality ducks are chosen and cooked for customers. These special efforts make the meat not only soft but also crisp.
Nearly every part of the duck can be used for food. Quanjude’s major dishes includes Beijing roast duck, duck feet with mustard, brine duck liver, stewed duck liver and gizzard, duck slices in wine essence, duck tongue and fried duck hearts, among others.
The Quanjude headquarter is on Qianmen Avenue. It is currently under renovation and is expected to open before the August Olympiad. Its telephone is (8610) 67011379.
Donglaishun is a long-standing Muslim restaurant famous for its quick-boiled mutton. It is popular for its excellent quality of meat, in this case Inner Mongolian lamb. The mutton is cut into slices as thin as a piece of paper.
The establishment was opened in 1902 by two brothers surnamed Ding. It’s predecessor was a porridge shop.
When you enter the restaurant you can find hot pots in the middle of the table, which indicates that eating the instant-boiled mutton is a cook-it-yourself affair. You put the thin slices into the boiled water and fish it out minutes later.
Waiters will provide a plate filled with seasoning, usually sesame sauce. Salt, sugar, chili, garlic, cilantro and other spices to dip with the mutton and other materials are also provided. Beef, noodles, vegetables, pork and seafood also can be eaten in this fashion.
Donglaishun is in Dong An Plaza, Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District. Its telephone is (8610) 65280932.
Even older is the Duyichu, 250 years young and famous for its special shaomai, a kind of food made of rice, meat, vegetables and flour.
There is a very interesting story about the restaurant’s name. One new year’s eve, Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty was returning to the Forbidden City after visiting Tongzhou District. When passing by Qianmen Avenue he noticed there was only one light on.
He went into the restaurant and was satisfied with the food there very much. When he discovering the restaurant did not have a name, he found a brush pen and wrote three Chinese Characters “Duyichu” — meaning “only the one restaurant on business.”
Duyichu soon became popular. Its shaomai features a thin wrap, bright luster and delicious taste. The most tasty, to many, are the crab and leek and pork shaomai.
Its phone number is (8610) 67606235 or 67661080.