Background
Since Beijing has been the capital city for centuries, its cuisine has been influenced by culinary traditions from all over China, but the cuisine that has exerted the greatest influence on Beijing cuisine is the cuisine of the eastern coastal province of . Beijing cuisine has itself, in turn, also greatly influenced other Chinese cuisines, particularly the cuisine of , the Chinese imperial cuisine, and the Chinese aristocrat cuisine. "The Emperor's Kitchen" was a term referring to the cooking places inside of the Forbidden City, Beijing where thousands of cooks from the different parts of China showed their best cooking skills to please royal families and officials. Therefore, it is at times rather difficult to determine the actual origin of a dish as the term "Mandarin" is generalized and refers not only to Beijing, but other provinces as well. However, some generalization of Beijing cuisine can be characterized as follows: Foods that originated in Beijing are often snacks rather than full courses, and they are typically sold by little shops or street vendors. There is emphasis on dark soy paste, sesame paste, sesame oil, and scallions, and fermented tofu is often served as a condiment. In terms of cooking method, methods relating to the different way of frying is often used.
Well known Mandarin dishes
* Peking Duck
* Hot and Sour Soup
* Peking Barbecue
* Instant-boiled mutton
* Sweetened Vinegar Spareribs
* Stir Fried Tomatoes with Scrambled Eggs
* Beggar's chicken
* Sweet Stir Fried Mutton/Lamb
* Plain Boiled Pork
* Fried Small Meatballs
* Fried Pig Liver wrapped in Chinese Small Iris
* Shredded Skin Salad
* Cold Pig ears in Sauce
* Pickled Chinese Cabbage with Blood Filled Intestines
* Sauced Meat
* Pickled Sauced Meat
* Upper Parts of the Pork Hand/Leg
* Three Non-Stickiness
* Wood shavings meat 木须肉
* Quick-Fried Tripe
* Fried Triangle
* Roast (Mutton/Beef/Pork
* Peking Dumpling
* Peking wonton
* Braised fish
* Soft fried fish
* Fish cooked with five spices
* Fish cooked with vinegar and pepper
* Shrimp chips with egg
* Fish soaked with soup
* Family style boiled fish
* Sea cucumber with quail egg
* Fish cooked with five kinds of sliced vegetable
* Abalone with peas and fish paste
* Meat wrapped in thin mung bean flour pancake
* Egg and shrimp wrapped in corn flour pancake
* Fried tofu with egg wrapping
* Wheaten cake boiled in meat broth
* Fried wheaten pancake with meat and sea cucumber fillings
* Fried butter cake
* Fried cake with fillings
* Fried dry soybean cream with diced meat filling
* Dried Soy Milk Cream in Tight Roll with Beef Fillings
* Lotus ham
* Pork in broth
* Stewed pork organs
* Goat/sheep intestine filled with blood
* Beef wrapped in pancake
* Soft fried tenderloin
* Meatballs soup
* Fried sesame egg cake
* Pork fat with flour wrapping glazed in honey
* Glazed fried egg cake
* Steamed egg cake
* Lotus shaped cake with chicken meat
* Fried thin pancake with meat stuffing
Noodles
* Noodles with Thick Gravy
* Zhajiang mian
* Naked oats noodle
Vegetarian
* Mustardy Chinese cabbage
* Beijing preserved fruit
* Beijing candied fruit
* Hawthorn cake
* Stir fried hawthorn
* Iced fruits
* Watermellon jelly
* Almond drink
* Beijng 'yoghurt'
* pancake sandwich
* Thin Millet Flour Pancake
* Thin pancake
* Pancake Lao Bing
* Deep Fried Dough Cake
* Baked Sesame Seed Cake
* Purplevine Cake
* Shortening cake
* Glutinous rice cake
* Thousand-layer cake
* Lamma cake
* Proso millet cake
* Glutinous rice cake roll
* Glazed steamed glutinous rice cake
* Rice and white kidney bean cake with jujube
* Honeycomb cake
* Buckwheat cake
* Rice and jujube cake
* Mung bean cake
* Soybean flour cake
* Bean paste cake
* Fried Cake
* Rice cake with bean paste
* Chestnut cake with bean paste
* Chestnut broth
* Glazed/Candied Chinese Yam
* Glazed thin pancake with Chinese yam and jujube stuffing
* Thin pancake of pork fat
* Sweet hard flour cake
* Sweet flour cake
* Fried sugar cake
* Fried cake glazed in malt sugar
* Cake with bean paste filling
* Freshwater snail shaped cake
* Chinese "fajitas"
* Chatang / Miancha / Youcha
* Fermented Mung Bean Juice
* Baked Wheaten Cake
* Sweetened baked wheaten cake
* Bean Jelly
* Sweet Potato Starch Jelly
* Crisp Fritter
* Crisp Fritter with Sesame
* Crisp Thin Fritter Twist
* Crisp Noodle
* Stir Fried Starch Knots
* Fried Ring
* Fried Dough Twist
* Pea Flour Cake
* Fermented Mung Bean Juice Dried
* Jellied Bean Curd
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* Glutinous rice ball
* Noodle roll
* Kidney bean roll
* Dried Soy Milk Cream in Tight Rolls
* Sugarcoated haws on a stick
* Millet zongzi
* Tangyuan
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