Yanji Restaurant is the earliest restaurant in Beijing that sells Korean cold noodles. It was founded in 1943. It was first established in Xidan. Now Yanji Restaurant has 3 directly-operated chain stores in Beijing, one in Xi'anmen area of Xicheng District and one in Waiguanxie Street of Chaoyang District. Yanji Restaurant's cold noodles are the most Korean-style food. Buckwheat noodles, starch and flour are the main ingredients, which are mixed and kneaded according to the proportion and squeezed into noodles. The soup used for mixing noodles is quite particular. There are cooked beef, shredded chicken, hemp seeds, apple slices, pickled vegetables of the Xianzu ethnic group, special hot sauce, and vinegar essence in the noodles. The cold beef soup with a temperature of 10 degrees all year round is added to make the cold noodles fresh, fragrant, sour, spicy, sweet and salty, with the five flavors neutralized. The noodles are chewy and smooth, and the soup is fresh and pleasant, refreshing, and has a unique flavor. During the past few decades of development, Yanji Restaurant has gradually introduced and added many special dishes, making Yanbian cuisine enter Beijing. In addition to the unique stone pot bibimbap and soybean paste soup series of the Korean ethnic group, there are also barbecue, raw fish, meat stew, crispy fried fish, fried beef bread, soybean paste squid and traditional snacks of the Xian ethnic group. Yanji Restaurant has strong technical strength, with dozens of technical backbones including senior cooking technicians, middle and senior chefs, pastry chefs, senior service technicians and middle service technicians. In 2006, Yanji Restaurant was re-identified as a "Chinese time-honored brand" by the Ministry of Commerce of China. Yanji Restaurant's signature dishes: Yanji cold noodles, dog meat hot pot, spicy beef, iron plate sauce eel, soybean paste soup series, etc. Yanji Restaurant General Story Yanji Restaurant is a bond of friendship between China and North Korea, and has made its own contribution to the friendly exchanges between the two countries. In the 1970s and 1980s, Yanji Restaurant was often called to "foreign meetings". When encountering important state affairs and foreign affairs banquets in the Great Hall of the People, Yanji's chefs were invited to go there and took the trouble to bring noodle rolling machines, various raw materials and condiments to make them on site. The staff of the North Korean Embassy in China often patronize Yanji Restaurant to eat cold noodles. They come several times a year. Every time they eat the flavor of their hometown in Yanji Restaurant, they enjoy the warm service. In the mid-1980s, there were the China-North Korea Youth Friendship Delegation invited by Chairman Mao; in 1985, the Deputy Prime Minister of North Korea visited China, and in 1988, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League hosted a banquet for North Korean counterparts, all of which were held in Yanji Restaurant. At the same time, guests from Japan, the United States, Italy, Austria and other countries have also visited Yanji Restaurant. When international friends visited, there were also many celebrities, celebrities and activists from the literary, film and television and sports circles in China, such as Hou Yuewen, Shi Shengjie, Meng Fangui, Zhao Zhongxiang, Cong Wei, Zhao Dan, Yu Lan, Li Lin, Liu Jiang, Xiang Kun, Liu Xiaoqing, Cai Ming, Xie Yuan, Wang Xiaosong, Mu Xuanpu's family, Cao Xiandong, Li Ning, Mu Tiezhu, skating coaches and athletes, as well as celebrities such as Pu Jie and his wife and Pu Jie's Japanese niece, etc., who have all visited Yanji Restaurant. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)