Ciqikou Old Bean Juice Shop (Shop The Temple)

The bean juice here is indeed in Beijing. I have tried it and it is quite good. But you really have to pick a time to come here. If you catch it at mealtime, there are too many people and the environment is a bit inconvenient, so every time I go there, it is not a normal mealtime. But there is a problem if you don’t go at mealtime, some cooked food is a bit cold. After it is cold, the taste is not very good, such as pie, etc. This bean juice is relatively authentic, and the sour taste is not too strong. However, a few southern friends at the table next to me took a sip and said they felt uncomfortable 🤢 and left 😂 I think the aroma of the beans here is still very strong.

An old friend who was doing morning exercises at the Temple of Heaven invited me to have breakfast at the Laociqikou Douzhi Restaurant. This is an old restaurant that serves Douzhi, fried tofu, mutton offal soup, big fire cakes, fried cakes, etc. It was just past seven o'clock, and diners were already seated in the small restaurant. They spent a few yuan and enjoyed the food. It is said that many elderly people have breakfast there every day without fail, and take away the fried cakes and sesame cakes they bought for their children and grandchildren before leaving.

In fact, for those who try it for the first time, it is easier to fall in love with bean juice in summer. The unique sourness of fermented beans is really refreshing and appetizing. Anyone who drinks it knows it. Guarding the north gate of the Temple of Heaven, the store is crowded from morning to night, and popular breakfast varieties are often sold out, such as soy milk and vegetable dumplings. Snacks such as bean-filled fried cakes, donkey rolls, pea yellow, and sugar-coated fire cakes are available all day long, and the taste is pretty good. A new online celebrity food, hemp twist, has also been added. The store is not large, the tables and chairs are arranged closely, and the diners are full. The waitress cleans up the tableware very quickly. If you leave halfway and haven't finished the meal, be sure to tell her not to clean up first

I came here to try the bean juice, which ranks top three. It is just across the street from the north gate of the Temple of Heaven, at the intersection of Qinian Street. It is very popular. The bean juice is really unacceptable. Many people have described the taste, so I won't repeat it. I only drank half a bowl. The fried dough rings are good, crispy, but you have to eat them hot, otherwise they will become rubber rings. The butter fried cakes are eaten with white sugar, which is very suitable for the taste of southerners.

Beijingers love to drink douzhi and regard it as a kind of enjoyment. I came to the douzhi shop in the Temple of Heaven because of its reputation. The first time I drank douzhi, the smell was like swill and it was hard to swallow. I pinched my nose and drank it twice, and the feeling was different. I heard that it is rich in protein, vitamin C, crude fiber and sugar.

The old Ciqikou Douzhi shop at the north gate of the Temple of Heaven is a time-honored shop where all Beijing snacks are gathered! However, this is a local breakfast shop, so don't be too demanding on the environment. Every day, there will be a long queue of people buying breakfast, most of whom drink a bowl of douzhi, eat two fried dough rings, or have a bowl of noodle tea, bean noodle meatball soup, etc. I really like their donkey rolls, the bean noodles are fragrant, and the bean filling is sweet and not greasy. The pea yellow is also sweet and smooth when you eat it, delicious!