The foods of the restaurant are basically of Shandong style. There are such classics of the cuisine as braised sea cucumber with spring onion, soft simmered pork, and such seafoods as shark fin soup, Buddha jump off the wall soup, an assorted soup of seafood and chicken broth, braised fish bladder with asparagus and mushroom, and fried scallop and lotus seeds with crisp shell.

There are also some really folksy Shandong choices such as the preserved Shandong spring onion, Nishan mountain (where Confucius was born) sliced pork skin, and Shandong pancake with vegetables and sauce.

Average spending is 80 yuan per person. The menu comes with an English translation.

Daily 11am-9pm. 45 Southern West Fourth Ring Road, Fengtai District. Right next to Fengbeiqiao exit.

(China Daily October 13, 2008)