Tongheju — Restaurant in Beijing

Firstly, this is a restaurant, not hotel.

同和居 - a chain restaurant serving local 京菜. We had some traditional dishes such as 鲍汁萝卜，赛螃蟹，三不沾 and of course Peking Duck. The duck isn't as good as 四季民福, a little too oily but still decent. The 赛螃蟹 was apparently bad, in the sense it didn't taste like it should according to the locals, but if I treated it like fried egg dish, it was not bad tasting 😂. I loved the braised radish and this other fish dish, 醋溜鱼片 that had a strong taste of vinegar 就是爱吃醋.

三不沾 is a 功夫菜 that's not readily available because it really takes a lot of skill to make. Simple ingredients of just egg, flour sugar and oil, and the chef needs to keep stirring at it until it achieves a texture that is 不沾锅，不沾筷子，不沾牙. Often times it ends up too soggy or burnt and hard. So you are really paying for skill here. Taste wise, it's just like a sweet thicker version of a pudding. Interesting to have tried it, to appreciate the skill behind it but not something I will...

同和居是北京的老字号，属于鲁菜系，饭菜的口味和质量都没得说，环境不错，基本也不用等位。他们家的九转大肠、焦溜里脊、乌鱼蛋汤都是我的大爱。不过，这里的菜量小，价格较贵。而且实在不喜欢他们的服务，爱答不理，要餐巾纸送餐巾纸、要汤碗送汤碗，完全没有服务意识。点菜的时候使劲推荐贵的菜。如果不是口...

我住在这附近将近30年了，这家饭馆一直存在，是个有名气的老字号，价格有点偏高但是味道非常棒，菜式精美，北京鲁菜的代表之一。甚至为日本天皇做过御宴。招牌菜是三不沾，需要...