Adventurous visitors can savor rainbow trout and colored tofu
There is a fixed order to serve the dishes, and famous dishes from the feast include "cedar wood smoked pork", a dish that legend says Empress Dowager Cixi first tasted during her escape from the Eight-Power Allied Forces invasion of the capital in 1900.
Another must-try from among the delicacies is tofu from Liugou village, in Yanqing district.
The village is located in a place which used to house an important military fortress during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), and thus has a lot of historical sites, such as ancient temples and ruins of a fortress.
The tofu made there, based on an ancient method, is very tender, but will not break no matter how long it is boiled, fried or steamed.
It is said that Yanqing tofu tastes better because the area grows high quality beans, and has water that tastes slightly sweet.
The village is now a famous tourism destination due to its "tofu feasts", a meal comprising dishes containing tofu.
The most popular tofu feast dish is huo pen guo, which literally means fire pot.
Here, cabbage, fresh tofu, frozen tofu, pork and other foods are boiled in a ceramic pot and when the food is ready to eat, it gives off distinctive aromas and flavors due to the combination of different ingredients in the same pot.
Besides common white tofu made from yellow beans, Yanqing has tofu of different colors made from black beans and green beans.
