Yuxiang Renjia

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Area: Chaoyang

Address: 5th Floor, Union Plaza, 20 Chaowai Dajie, Chaoyang; First Floor, Jianwai SOHO, 39 Dongsanhuan Zhong Lu, Chaoyang district

朝阳区，朝外大街20号联合大厦5层; 朝阳区东三环中路39 号建外SOHO4号楼1层

Opening: 11am-2pm, 5-9.30pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9.30pm Sat-Sun; 9.30am-10.30pm

Phone: 6588 3841; 6568 1556

Main Courses: RMB 5-RMB 100

English Menu Available

Credit cards: AmEx, MC, V

Other sichuan restaurants in this neighbourhood

Yuxiang Renjia opened in 1998, and is still going strong, despite the establishment of a slew of new Sichuanese competitors.

This restaurant has kept traditional dishes on the menu, unlike many of the newer restaurants that have followed a nouveau approach, which can lead to culinary disaster. As if to emphasise the point, walls are decorated with black-and-white photos of traditional houses, river towns and people in the south, along with strings of dried red chillies and garlic hanging.

Waitresses, who wear simple Chinese blouses, are peasantly charming. Pick classic Sichuan dishes like kongbao chicken, lazi chicken, mapo doufu, camphor smoked duck, or twice-cooked pork, and you will not be disappointed.