Where to Eat if Someone Else is Paying - Temple Kitchen

Marion Hume | October 18th, 2006

Where to Eat if Someone Else is Paying
For an extraordinary (and fiercely expensive) evening in Beijing, try the Temple Kitchen, where reservations are essential. Be sure you understand the prices. Yes, that is shark’s fin soup and yes, that single bite of abalone is two hundred pounds sterling. Your taxi will stop in a little courtyard. It will be pitch dark, but for the light of a red lantern guiding you down an alleyway. Beyond ornate rooms, you can just make out the white dome of an 800-year-old lama temple. You are being served from the kitchens of the emperors.