Jia 21 Hao Southwest Minority Dishes (甲21号招待所)

Hi, everyone! :D I have been away from blogging for almost 2 months since I moved to Beijing, China now. The internet connection is super slow and there are plenty of browsing restrictions here:( For these past 2 months in Beijing, I have tried many different kinds of food, especially Chinese food. As most of you have known, Chinese food here is so oily, greasy, extremely different from Chinese food in other countries. However, there is one dish which literally made me fall in love from the first bite! God of Pig or Babi Dewa from Jia 21 Hao Southwest Minority Dishes (甲21号招待所) - a chic, contemporary style restaurant which serves flavorful dishes from Southwest China.  

Well, most of Indonesian students here are so crazy talking about it. I had no time to try it until last week my friends invited me to have dinner there for celebrating their birthdays. Yes, i admit it that it looks unappealing, yet trust me, it is so damn damn good!! 

It is basically roasted pork with a little bit of pork belly, accompanied by nuts, a lot of chilies, and fermented mustard cabbage. You have to eat every components of the dish together with white rice and nothing could be possible better than this! My friends ordered two portions of it for our table and we finished all of them instantly. We just could not resist its temptation and as always, diet will start tomorrow! :p 

So, for everyone who is visiting Beijing, please do spare your time to have a lunch or dinner here. You will not regret it for sure! Cheers from Beijing! 

Jia 21 Hao Southwest Minority Dishes (甲21号招待所)

21A Tucheng East Road, North of Huixin East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing
朝阳区惠新东街北土城东路甲21号
Tel: +86 010-64895066   
Opening Hours: 11am-2pm; 4:30pm-10pm

Lung Yuan Chinese Restaurant

Lung Yuan has become my family's favorite restaurant since I was in elementary school. We used to celebrate our family members' birthday there. Yet, since it changed its chef few years ago, we were quite disappointed and kind of forgetting this memorable restaurant. All of sudden, I remembered this restaurant again last month when I was at Tunjungan Plaza, which is located beside Sheraton Hotel.

It provides classic Chinese food options with a modern interpretation. We ordered our all-time-favorite menus, which are shark fin soup, Szechuan-style tiger prawn, Vietanemese sautéed beef with garlic and onion, and baby snaps with salted fish. Shark Fin soup was light and fresh, and thus I still had a "big room" for other main courses. 

Shark Fin Soup.

Szechuan-style Tiger Prawn.

Vietanemese Sautéed Beef.

To me, baby snaps with salted fish was the best! The snaps were crunchy and a little bit spicy as well. You have to eat it together with the salted fish so that all of the flavors will just perfectly combine together in your mouth.

Baby Snaps with Salted Fish.

We were surprised with the fact that they actually tasted delicious. From a short conversation with the restaurant's manager, he explained that the restaurant had struggled previously because of the change of its chef. Fortunately, it had managed to find the new chef that could match the customers' tastes and preferences. So, Lung Yuan will be included in my family's favorite restaurants list again for sure! Cheers! 🎀

Lung Yuan Chinese Restaurant
Jalan Embong Malang 25-31
Sheraton Surabaya Hotel & Towers
Tel: +62 31 5468000 ext 6590
Mon to Sat: 11.30am - 2.30pm
Sun: 8am - 2.30pm
Daily: 6pm - 10.30pm