In the centre of Beijing is a Street Food market called Donghuamen Night Food Street (东华门美食坊夜市). I'm not convinced that locals ever eat anything there. Maybe if you're on a date or something? But mostly it's tourists, foreign or Chinese, looking for something weird to eat and a good photo opportunity. The theme is food on a stick. Strawberries, kiwi fruit, chicken, fish, pork, lamb, snake, centipede, squid, crab, prawns, silk worm larvae, star fish, scorpions, grasshoppers, sea urchins – you name it, they've got it.
We weren't brave enough to try a scorpion, so instead we went for some squid and a Beijing Burger. The squid was pretty good, tasted like squid you'd get anywhere, with a good spicy sauce added after it was grilled over charcoal.
A Beijing burger is basically like a hamburger – bread, kind of like an English muffin but a bit softer, split in two and containing some minced meat. It was hot and reasonably tasty if you ignored the grease. Thoroughly uninspiring really. I guess it would be a good 3am post clubbing fix, but otherwise I wouldn't bother. Go for the centipede instead.
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