In Beihai park, there is a famous Fangshan restaurant which means they serve sample China's imperial cuisine. Beihai Fangshan was established in 1925 by three royal chefs who used to prepare dishes for Qing emperors. The restaurant's staple food was cooked wheaten products, such as baked sesame seed cakes with fried minced-meat filling and pastries shaped like apple, peach, fingered citron, and lucky rolls. Whatever wheaten food you ate, you received a good luck message: apple - all is well; peach - longevity, you will live a long life; lucky rolls - everything is fine. The most sumptuous food at Fangshan Restaurant was their Manchu and Han banquet. These dishes have the flavors of the Beijing cuisine palace dishes.

Some visitors may find the dishes here with shark's fin and birds' nest soup too expensive and indigestible. However, it is one of the most magnificent and splendid restaurants in China that you must visit.