Theme restaurants in Beijing
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E-mail CRI, February 15, 2012
Heroic Mountain (英雄山庄)
Theme Wuxia literature.
The story A side alley thankfully separates this little bamboo-decorated eatery from the pushy neon bombast of Dongzhimennei. Inside, graffiti-scrawled walls, perilously narrow benches and charming staff (dressed in traditional kung fu attire) serve a six-course set menu inspired by the works of prolific wuxia writer Jin Yong. Occasionally, a wandering guitarist rolls in and takes requests – he's not part of the restaurant, but what the hell. The food is basic: simple meatballs inside sticky rice balls (a wuxia warrior favourite) to start, followed by yu nu xin jing, a basic vegetable-and-pork dish named after a specific type of kung fu practised in Jin's The Return of the Condor Heroes – you get the gist. Wuxia geeks will go weak at the knees; we suggest you just enjoy the ride.
House of Poo Poo (便便满屋)
Theme Exactly what you'd expect.
The story It's all cisterns go at this loo-themed resto, with porcelain thrones surrounding each table, hotpot (really an assorted-meat broth, 30RMB) served in a tiny toilet bowl, and chocolate ice-cream arriving under the moniker ‘Two Women Cup' (a rather stomach-churning reference to the infamous scatological sex clip ‘2 Girls 1 Cup' – don't Google it! – 15RMB). Thankfully, the tone is light – faeces-tious, you might say – and nothing actually looks like real effluence. The food, however, is resolutely bog-standard. It's still worth a visit if you can get a group of good-humoured friends together, but despite its ambitions, House of Poo Poo is far from being ‘the s**t'.
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