The Royal Cuisine Museum of Yuxian Du is located near Sijiqing Bridge in Haidian District, Beijing. It is built with the concept of ‘the museum is in the restaurant and the restaurant is in the museum’. Here, for 998 yuan, you can enjoy a Man-Han Banquet for ten people at a table. You can also appreciate the drama performance with the magnificent ancient palace banquet scene as the background. Consumers can enjoy a high-quality ‘cultural feast’ in an environment of ‘enjoying food with music’.
The floors of the Royal Cuisine Museum of Yuxian Du are mainly divided into the historical and cultural exhibition area of royal cuisine, the tasting and experiencing area of royal cuisine, and the living sightseeing area, presenting a pattern of one museum and three areas and a trinity. The living sightseeing area is an innovative, open, transparent, low-carbon, energy-saving, and green modern central kitchen.
The entire kitchen uses glass curtain walls. Each stove is equipped with a camera. The entire process of food processing and production in the kitchen is visible. Tourists and diners can watch the production of dishes in real time through video. In addition, the museum also has an information center. An information system integrating media, ordering, and monitoring is laid out throughout the entire area.
The entire museum integrates traditional and modern elements in all aspects such as content, facilities, means, style, and service. It has four functions: seeing, eating, learning, and playing. It reflects the characteristics of healthy catering, civilized catering, and technological catering. It turns the place where people used to simply eat and drink into a place for spreading culture, cultivating new trends, and advocating civilization.
The Royal Cuisine Museum of Yuxian Du carefully selects interesting anecdotes about the eating habits of emperors of all dynasties, famous dish allusions, and stories of famous chefs. It has distinct characteristics. The exhibition content uses new methods such as fully transparent high-quality display cabinets, highly simulated dish models, induction-triggered holographic imaging, and double-screen phantom imaging.
Consumers can see the long-standing historical and cultural exhibition of Chinese royal cuisine here, see the simple and elegant high imitation buildings of Chinese royal halls and rooms, see the superb royal cuisine preparation process, see the magnificent drama performance with the ancient palace banquet scene as the background, and see the green central kitchen system.
The opening hours are from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00 throughout the year.
