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Eating Beijing: Paper

March 8th, 2007 | Restaurant Reviews, Travel | 27 Comments

Last night, I had a fantastic set dinner at Paper, a chic restaurant serving modern Chinese cuisine in Beijing. (Paper is owned by my fellow Malaysian Cho, who is also behind the hugely popular and successful Cafe Sambal and Bed Bar in Beijing.)

Clockwise from left: fried calamari & fruit salad, cucumber, lotus root, ground pork patty.

Soup, grilled cod, jumbo prawn tempuras, egg plant.

Pipa tofu, sweet & sour pork, cold noodles, stir-fried veggie and black fungus.

My personal favorites: the melt-in-the-mouth grilled cod fish, jumbo prawn tempuras, and the dessert. They were exquisite.

At Paper, there is no menu to order from. All you have to do is tell your waiter/waitress what you don’t eat. Then just sit back, relax, and enjoy the meal.

No hassle, great food–the kind of dining experience I like.

Paper
138 Gulou Dongdajie
Dongcheng District
Beijing, China
Tel: 010-84015080

Notes:

The 14-course menu is priced at RMB150 per person.
A & P, thanks for taking me there.

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