You’ll find the Moonsha restaurant at 5 Zhong Shan Dong or, as most foreigners know it, 5 the Bund. Situated on the third floor below the much famed restaurant ‘5 on the Bund’, Moonsha is very different from its illustrious neighbour. It mixes high quality Japanese cuisine with a décor that, with its deep red and black colours, is reminiscent of Shanghai back in the 20’s and 30’s.
A visit to Royal MeiWeiZhen is to experience the food, etiquette, art, and the cultural aesthetics of historically traditional imperial dining. The Chinese culture and philosophy reflected in an emperor's diet was "harmony is precious".
Along the west bank of the Hou Hai lakes glows a giant red chop that serves as the entrance marker to Ken de Rouge; the four month old fusion restaurant nestled between bars and curio shops. Fusion does not begin to do justice to this beautiful collage of Chinese architecture and Hutong styles nor the menu featuring some very non-Chinese items.
Located in the new China View Building 3, room 201 (second floor), Sanliturn area, is the new Purple Haze Bistro, sister to the original Purple Haze. The original offers traditional Thai food, while the new Bistro's menu incorporates about half of the first restaurants line but adding a creative blend of other South-Asian and fusion dishes.
Located south of Dong Chong district is one of the ten best parks in Beijing is Wan liu ge. The restaurant itself is a converted residence of traditional courtyard house architecture, beautifully painted on the outside and inside full of authentic stone sculpture, wood carvings and admirable wood panel fret-work showing scenes from times gone by.