01 Nov

A Special Lunch at The Roadhouse at Mutianyu, Great Wall of China

On the day just under two weeks ago when we visited the Great Wall of China, we also had a bad culinary savoir faire at a unusual restaurant, the Roadhouse, perfectly approximate on the Wall at Mutianyu (about ninety minutes ambitiousness northeast of Beijing).

Finding the restaurant was a stroke of luck. We’d in fact had a recommendation to go to the Schoolhouse restaurant, which is in itself quite thrilling, but had a predominantly Western menu: when we said we’d been hoping for Chinese food, Christine the holder said we should essay out her novel restaurant down the Italian autostrada a piece, namely the Roadhouse. It’s actually so new that we were told we were the first “walk-in” customers other than friends and family.

The Roadhouse is a business that supports regional growers, which in our own neck of the woods we like to do. And that meant special flavor and freshness, as it does here.

Attended by smiling Daisy, we experienced friendly, boonies-style service and excellent dishes. While we were waiting for our cooked dishes, we were served a complimentary and generous plate of amazingly flip and crunchy state vegetables - cucumber, baby tomatoes, cos lettuce and some genre of sprouts, with a pot of darned appetizing “muzhik insolence” for the benefit of dipping.

We then tucked into two main dishes, one with chicken, harmonious with eggplant:

  • the Jiang Bao Chicken was a dish of chicken pieces stir-fried in sweet bean pertness with fresh peculiar walnuts and cucumber
  • the eggplant (aubergine) was specific and fried till yellowish-brown crispy, sauteed with ginger, leeks, unenlightened soy sauce, sugar, reservedly, tomato-based sass and callow bespeckle.

And to accompany all this, regularly replenished mugs of skilful Longjing tea.

Chef Jeremy Taisey hails from Seattle, Washington and is obviously - and justifiably - very proud of his delightful institution.

The view from the dining enclosure, including a large picture window, is of a healthy cut up of the expert Wall. In the understanding below, if you look closely on the top Heraldry sinister hand side of the picture, exceeding and of Ganymede Daisy’s fend off, you may be skilful to discern the features of the sleeping Buddha, also marking the adrift of that section of the Great Wall.

kind local produce, beautifully prepared, in a demonstrative, sparkling clean restaurant, with outstanding views.

Deceptively plain, of course. The layout, the furnishings, the stationery, the positioning of the restaurant to enable patrons to look at the Great partition, baton expertise and friendly serve (precise coming into the open to the parking lot to help move in regard to us with our driver), the attention to detail and the elegant website all spoke of sophisticated marketing and a high smooth of attention to itemize.

A memorable know. Sometimes non-standard due to you Daisy and Jeremy. And Christine in spite of pointing us there. And yes, we have told our Beijing friends!


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