- Delicious Peking Duck, and you've got to try Peking Duck when you're in Beijing!
- Lovely atmosphere - great design, comfortable and relaxing as well as intimate.
- Open kitchens where you can watch a lot going on from roasting ducks to hand-making dumplings.
- Dessert bar as you walk in may make you skip the main course (but don't!)
- Book an early table to eat with your kids - they'll love watching what's happening in the kitchens.
- You'll need to book a table, and a duck, in advance.
- Made in China at the Grand Hyatt Beijing
- 1 East Chang An Avenue
- Beijing, 100738
- Tel: +86 10 8518 1234 ext. 3608 (if dialing from within China dial 010-8518-1234 ext. 3608)
Now that our fantasies are behind us - yes, we all dream of finding some tiny place that serves up revelation. But let's stick to reality. You're likely only in Beijing for a short time and you are probably a teeny weeny bit freaked out about the food. After all, most of us arrive for the first time in Beijing or Shanghai and some of us are a wee bit on the careful side when it comes to eating in a strange locale. So I'm telling you: book a table at Made in China now.
Made in China is beautifully decorated and relatively small. Teapots and ceramics line the walls between glass-enclosed kitchen stations where you can peek into the roaring ovens where the ducks roast or watch dumpling masters rolling dough. We had a large table overlooking ancient tile roofs of the building next door.
But enough about that. The food: gorgeous starters from honey-soaked lettuce to sesame spinach..and then, the duck. A chef comes to the table and carves the crispy duck skin off which you start to enjoy immediately with your pancake and accoutrements. It was gone too quickly and left us all wanting more. After the duck came beef, vegetables, rice and other very tasty dishes - but it was the duck that couldn't be topped.
Go for the duck. Even if you're one person, order it and enjoy it all. Made in China is the perfect place to enjoy this Beijing delicacy.
