The conventional way of eating certain customary Chinese dishes, namely hotpot and barbeque, is to cook it oneself, even in the case of eating such fine food in a restaurant. The Beijing Chinese Restaurant, located in a renovated house just 10 metres off Bole Road, up a side street by Fantu Supermarket, opened about four months ago.
The only dishes on offer are hot pot or barbequed meat and customers cook the food at their table themselves a kesel mandija (a pot in which charcoal fires are made for cooking), or, in the case of their culinary preparation skills failing them, the waiters can assist.
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