Beijing's Snacks ;)

Nah I will tell you about Beijing’s snacks now! :D

I divide Beijing Snacks into 2 part. First one is the street snack, and the second is potato chips and friends that you can find at any supermarket or just certain of them.

1.   Beijing’s special snacks (小吃)

You can found many of them in the street, like there are:

a.    Chinese Han Bao Bao ( Hamburger)

Is a small white bread that filled with sausage, beef and egg. (they mixed it)or you can choose the other filling, like ham for example. Its really yummy and cheap too! The price is 3 yuan only. ;)

b.    Chinese Crepes

Is like the other crepes(but there are 2 types for the skin, there’s flour and taro. I tried both. Both re nice. J) and it mixed with egg, and they put the crunch and sauce inside. So yummy!!!! Price: 4 yuan

c.     Chinese martabak/crunch pancake

You just can find it at acroos of Xin Hua Department store at Ji Sui Tan Jiao Nan station, Xin Jie Kou Bei Road. Its like a crunchy flour made with egg and added by sauce and curry filling. Its round, and so huge! But you can buy as much as you want, just tell the price. It could be 3/4/ even 10 yuan. But I tell you 5 yuan is quite much. ;) again, I love it too! :P

d.    Pancakes with meat filling (Rou Mo Shao Bing)

e.     Sticky Rice with Sweet Fillings (Ai Wo Wo)

Its filling with white sugar, sesame, walnut, peanut and a kind of fruit. :P

f.    Filled Sausage (Guan Chang)

Its so common in Beijing, you can look it everywhere. Personally, I think its delicious. The price is normally 3 yuan/stick.

g.    Chinese Breakfast

There are many of breakfast place in Beijing. But theres one my fav, that closed to my school, named Dao Dao. You can enjoy it’s Dumpling (jiaozi, and hun tun), the price is 4 yuan/10 pieces/1 bowl, and theres Bao Zi too. All filled with pork, and theres Cai Gar(look like half moon and filled with konyaku and a kind of veggie =>love it!!), also Ma Zang (like a mochi ball), cakwe (you tiao) is like a long crunchy and mellow at the same time,  you bing (is a kind of cakwe, but bigger and wider). And in my school, you can find variation of bao zi. (many kind of filling, like meats, veggies, or sweet taste), manthou, and crepes that filled with meat, bread that filled with any of meat, or sausage and egg, soya milk, plain bread that rolled with veggies and much much more! The price is 1 til 2,5 yuan. J

h.    Chinese Prata Bread

It also common in Beijing. Its have good taste and also cheap! You can buy depends on how much price that you want to buy. Or depends on the weight. There are 3 taste: plain, egg, and chili. My fav is chilli. ;)

i.      Chinese sweet and salt bread

It just the bread, but theres something different with the texture of the bread. Personally, I like the sweet more. The price is 7 mao.(7 sen)

j.      Pea flour Cake (Wan Dou Huang)

The taste is sweet and they mixed with the corn too. Usually you can taste it on spring.

k.     Fried Ice cream cake (Nai  You Zha Gao)

It’s a kind f with fried ice cream in Indonesia. ;)

l.      Fruits coated by sugar (tang hu lu)

Whoa, that’s one of my fav! Its made by big variation of fruits, it can be just giant strawberries or mixed fruits like kiwi, grapes etc, and the price is 6/8 yuan. You can find it at wang fu jing street.

m.    Roast Sweet Potato ( Kao Hong Shu)

You also can look it everywhere. It looks tempted and it taste nice too!

n.     Shish Kebab (Yang Rou Chuan)

It just like the other kebab, but the bread is like Chinese hanbaobao, not made by prata bread. :P

o.     Malathang

Its so famous in Beijing! There are sticks with different kind, like meat balls, sausage, dumpling, and veggies. The price is 7 mao/stick and usually people eat with the peanut sauce.

p.    Dumpling

It also common in Beijing, and you can find it everywhere. ;)

q.    Mochi Soy Bean Flour(Ludagun)

Its like a mochi, that made by soy bean flour and sugar.

r.     Baodu feng (babat)

It taste salty and nice, they give much of kemangi leaf and many kind of sauce.

s.     Bugs

I bet you must be already know about this! It so popular in Beijing. Many tourists try these variation of bugs, but I even don’t want to taste one of them.

t.     Mung bean milk

Its like yoghurt. You can call it Chinese yoghurt. Its liquid and sour, but its quite nice. Price: 3 or 4 yuan, depend on where you buy it.

u.     Nai Cha

It also common in Beijing. Most of my friends like Happy Lemon more, but I like Coco more. Perhaps because of the size, the taste and the price. :P I think Coco’s taste is tastier, and its bigger and cheaper. :P

v.     Banana Caramel

Maybe it sounds ordinary, but the taste is unbelievable! Lols. The price is quite expensive. It can be 14 yuan/box.

2.   Beijing’s packaged snack (零食)

a.    Lays

There are many variation of lays(cucumber taste, blueberry, tomato with mayonnaise, cherry tomato, Italian soup, fish soup, chili red hot soup, lobster cheese, fried prawn, original, pork, lemon tea, and now theres another taste of lays that made by rice, rice with seaweed, and wheat), and you can find cruch lays(not made by potato) there are 3 tastes: tomato, fried prawn, and seaweed. My recommendation: Italian soup(blue cover), cheese lobster(green) and tomato mayonnaise (pink).

b.    Hao Peng You

There are 3 taste: kimchi(red), steak(blue) and original (yellow). I love all! :D

c.     Small Criso

There are many brands, but I recommend the metallic ba ba brand. There are many taste. But my recommend: 1. Blue, 2. Red, 3.White, 4.Pink, 5. Gold, 6. Green(seaweed NOT wasabi, watch out!!), 7. Silver

d.    Glico Product

There are: cumin taste, curry, pizza, red chilli onion, shrimp salad, tomato, malathang. My fav: shrimp salad! :D

e.     Pejoy

Pejoy is the newest product by glico, the different with pocky and pretz is the filling inside the stick, and pejoy is for the upper class with the exclusive and attractive cover, and with the most expensive price among pocky and pretz. There are: red wine, cheesecake, matcha, tiramisu, chocolate, vanilla, strawberry vanilla. My fav: cheesecake and matcha.

f.    Pocky

I know pocky since long time ago. There are: banana, strawberry, chocolate, peanut, almond, hazelnut and green tea. Now, pocky have other version like pocky mousse, and pocky with double layer, like banana, stawbeey and mango. I almost like most of all the flavours, but my fav is banana, obviously!

g.    Pretz

Is the other version of pocky, and its cheaper. But pretz have so many taste, like:  salad, tomato, pizza, butter, coffee, green tea, tomato, tiramisu. My fav: butter!

h.    Cheetos

There are: chicken, beef, milk and the purple one. My fav: purple! ;)

i.      Yatudou

There are: steak and fried chicken(green), steak(yellow), and tomato (red). My fav: green, but then yellow. I don’t really like the tomato taste.

j.      Cao Mei

Many taste, and its cheap, but I don’t really like it.

k.     Oishi

Many taste,like onion, cheese, orange, chocolate stick, crunch etc,  but my fav: chocolate filling, shrimp crunch, fish sweet.

l.      Calpico

I don’t like it.

m.    Sancha

Like it sooo muchhh!!

n.     Power of Life

Jiang Xi’s product is better than in Beijing. It tasteful. There are: fried chicken, steak, corn, black seaweed, chili, tomato, etc. my fav: chicken.

o.     Wannabe

Wang2, wang2 fried, wang2 fried big version. All tasty!!! :D and its really cheap here!!

p.    Yogorino

It’s the only yoghurt in Beijing, I guess. :p its quite nice, and you can found it at Yonganli 2^nd floor(its cheaper than in xidan, 7yuan for the small one) and in Xidan.