Day 1 Beijing

Attractions: Dongsi Hutong, LongFuSi Jie, Zhangzizhong Street, Wangfujing Street

Meals: Not Included

Hotel: Not Included

Meet your guide in the lobby of your Beijing hotel at 5:30 p.m. and travel together by taxi (own expense) to the main market area. Stroll through the hutongs, or old alleyways, and learn about their history as you walk to your first eatery.Tonight's feast begins at a Xinjiang restaurant,You can taste 3-5 different types of kebabs with side dishes such as eggplant, garlic, leeks and beans. Then, try the local favorite salty pancake, Tan Jia Shao cake. Finish with a taste of Erguotou, a traditional Chinese liquor.Continue down the same street to sample some other sweet and savory specialties, including sesame cake, Szechuan skewers, peanut milk, cold noodles, steamed rice cakes and more. Throughout the tour, your guide will introduce you to the ingredients and cultural significance of each dish.

Next, you will stop at a local restaurant serving traditional Yunnan cuisine. You can taste flower cakes, plum wine and "Cross the bridge rice noodles". You can also try their special dish - pan-roasted bamboo worms (at your own expense).After the tour, you can choose to stay and continue the night market or return to the hotel.

Dongsi Hutong

The area of Dongsi Hutong belongs to the historical and cultural protection zone of Beijing Old City. The quadrangles, hutongs and alleys in this area were developed and formed on the pattern of streets in the Yuan Dynasty, and were important traditional blocks in Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Its characteristics are that the hutong runs east to west, flat and smooth, and there are alleys connecting north and south, and the houses are large in scale, mostly the mansions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties bureaucrats. Beijing's hutong, regarded as a brick history, is a "record" with seven twists and turns.

LongFuSi Jie

Longfusi Street, located in the south of Dongcheng District People's Government, with a length of 632 meters, 7 meters wide, asphalt pavement. The Ming Dynasty belongs to Renshou Fang, the Qing Dynasty belongs to Zhengbai Banner, the Ming Dynasty Jingtai three years King ordered the construction of Dalongfu Temple in the East Chongguo Temple site, Yongzheng, Qianlong have written inscriptions and plaques for this temple. Longfusi Street has now become a commercial dense shopping center in Beijing.