Beijing's 798 Art District is a unique neighbourhood of decommissioned military machine mill buildings that right away stand upwards for a network of fine art galleries in addition to minor shops. There's enough of world industrial plant in addition to expose exhibitions, but also a scattering a large galleries good worth the toll of admission.
On our kickoff view nosotros wandered without much purpose, falling upon a noodle store when nosotros were hot in addition to hungry. Then, sated, nosotros walked to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than in addition to came upon a sign reading Vegetarian food (it's photographed below). Well, damn. When Michael in addition to I returned to the District a few days later, nosotros carefully retraced our steps in addition to made certain nosotros ate at Zen Beans/Chán dòu.
While the staff weren't fluent inwards English, they've made fantabulous accommodations. The bill of fare includes English linguistic communication text in addition to enormous coloring photographs of all dishes. The swain serving us didn't hesitate to draw out his telephone translator to cheque that nosotros understood that the mock meat nosotros were ordering wasn't existent meat at all. Yes, nosotros grinned dorsum at him.
The finely chopped in addition to steamed Chinese broccoli was served alongside blanched walnuts (31 yuan AU$6.20), a elementary start earlier those rich mock meats arrived.
We'd noticed a few interesting ham in addition to bacon-based plates, in addition to picked out the braised pork inwards brownish sauce. The mock meat cubes had thin in addition to obese layers in addition to a sweetness sauce. I was surprised to come across it served alongside mango, in addition to saved my portion of the fruit until the destination of the meal.
The spicy mock chicken alongside mushroom (43 yuan AU$8.50) was definitely to a greater extent than spice than mushroom, in addition to I had solely a few pieces earlier conceding virtually of the plate to Michael. There was withal mango, gratis watermelon, in addition to my loving cup of tea to soothe my palate.
The 798 Art District is a must-visit for anyone inwards Beijing. And for veg*n eaters, we'd recommend seeking out Zen Beans for a total tiffin inwards a comfortable, welcoming setting amidst all the walking - cheque our Google map to ensure you lot don't exceed it yesteryear equally nosotros initially did.
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Zen Beans/Chán dòu
Qixing East St, 798 Art District, Beijing
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Ingeneous Mushroom, yesteryear Zhang Gong
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