I’m stealing a page from Savour Asia by suggesting this place for tonight’s JZM.  Basically, I was looking for old-fashioned winter food and came across this perfect-sounding place.

Here’s what they say:

“This is a genuinely local low rent place which fries up delicious guo tie (锅贴) with countless choices for filling, from lamb to pork to beef to vegetables. It is also a very Beijing eatery, with 京菜 snacks, stewed claypot dishes (砂锅), and an wide variety of both hot and savory(咸粥) and cooling (消暑冰粥) rice porridge for summer. These traditional guo tie are wrapped differently than regular dumplings. Instead of wrapping the filling in a closed crescent shaped dumpling, which when fried is technically a jian jiao 煎饺 but is also called guo tie, a traditional shaped guo tie is shaped like a little parcel, longer and thinner and with both ends left open. These are fried in long rows as opposed to jian jiao, whose shape lends itself to be neatly fried in a circle.”

Address below – it’s very central for those in CBD, Gongti and Jianguomen.

朝阳门南小街，金宝街西南口，向南100米 (从长安街国际饭店往北走)

Chaoyangmen Nanxiaojie, Jinbao jie xinankou, xiang nan 100 mi (cong Changan Jie, Guo Ji Fan Dian wang bei zhou)

Tel: 010-8511 2152

See you at 7:30!

If the restaurant isn’t there (yes, that happens), call me and we’ll figure out a Plan B.   13811533772

Tags: Guotie, Jiaozi