A Beijing specialty shop near the Forbidden City

If you walk along the Forbidden City to the east, a Beijing specialty shop on the north side of Donghuamen Dajie awaits you to drop in. Actually, it’s an outlet of Beijing XiHongXuan Foodstuff Company, which specializes in Beijing traditional snacks.

The shop looks like a corridor, and a great many local products are displayed on both sides, including preserved fruits, roast duck, cooked food, and bread. Beijing has long been famous for the first two items.

There is a wide variety of preserved fruits for you to select, such as apricots, cherry-apples, hawthorns, peaches, and jujubes. They come in small boxes of 200 grams each. All are made with fresh fruits and taste great. If you wish to sample them all, get a box of assorted preserved fruits, which cost 28 yuan per 400 gram box.

Beijing roast duck, which has been famous for more than a century, is also sold here. It’s vacuum packed in case you can’t make time for having it in a restaurant. The meat is tender and not greasy at all. A bag of a two and a half pound duck costs 58 yuan.

What I appreciated

Beijing specialty, traditional snacks

What customers appreciate

Beijing traditional snacks, reasonable prices