Breakfast and Brunch

Green Cow City Cafe

Green Cow City Cafe is a haven from the hustle and bustle of Beijing, selling an expansive range of Western dishes cooked using organic and locally produced ingredients. It's also one of the best places in the city to brunch, though if you're worse for wear, we recommended getting a friend to order for you as the paper menu can prove quite the puzzle for the uninitiated.

Xiaoqinglong

The small stall of Xiaoqinglong provides a dozen types of baozi, including pork (RMB 5), veggie (RMB 5 for two), and scallion mantou (葱花馒头, RMB 7), as well as wontons, and zongzi (粽子, glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves), soybean milk, and sour plum drink (酸梅汤, suanmeitang).

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Jiangnan Rice Balls

Jiangnan Rice Balls sells several varieties of rice balls, including shuangdan "double egg," preserved vegetables, classic, and ham, as well as the choice between a white or purple rice encasing. The shuangdan, featuring salted egg yolk, tea egg, pork floss, preserved mustard, peanut, and youtiao was crunchy, chewy, and glutinous all at once making it a suitable snack to bide time until your next meal.

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Jianbing Houzi

There are six kinds of Jianbing on the menu, the classic one with two eggs and yóutiáo (RMB 11), Beef Jianbing with secret sauce (RMB 16), Old School Italian (RMB 21), Cheesy Italian (RMB 29), Tuna Temptation (RMB 26), and Tuna Supreme (RMB 30). You must be curious, what makes it special to ask for RMB 30 for a Jianbing? Well, it says, it contains three eggs, cheese, secret sauce and yóutiáo. In fact, they replace all the fried dough sheet (薄脆, báocuì) with deep-fried batter (油条, yóutiáo).

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