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Enjoy an imperial banquet and show together at Yuxiandu, Beijing's royal cuisine museum. A museum and a restaurant share a four-story building modeled on the Forbidden City, so you can see and taste the history of Chinese cuisine and imperial food culture. At the Zhonghua Yipin Banquet, created with the Palace Museum to recreate the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet, staff dressed as palace maids serve the dishes as performances unfold. Choose a lunch or dinner banquet and your seating row, with options that include a costume and makeup experience.

Yuxiandu is a four-story building created by Beijing Kerry Yuxiandu Catering Group, where the restaurant sits inside the museum and the museum inside the restaurant. Enjoy a royal cuisine meal amid grand scale and lavish decor reminiscent of the Forbidden City.

Created in collaboration with the Palace Museum, the Zhonghua Yipin Banquet recreates the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet. Staff dressed as palace maids serve the dishes, and while watching the performance you learn about the history and cooking methods of the dishes and imperial dining etiquette.

Taste signature dishes such as the Forbidden City jujube-wood roast duck with crispy skin and tender meat, and Yuxiandu's Buddha Jumps Over the Wall made with ingredients like sea cucumber and abalone. If you have dietary restrictions, please let them know in advance and suitable dishes will be substituted.

With options that include costume and makeup, choose from about 3,000 Hanfu pieces in over 300 styles spanning the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and get styled with professional makeup and accessories.
※ The costume and makeup experience is included only when you book the corresponding option.
Meeting point :
Yuxiandu Royal Cuisine Museum
117 W 4th Ring N Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China 100081
Meeting point information:
When you arrive at the designated location, please do not enter the hall first. A service staff member will greet and guide you.
117 W 4th Ring N Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, China 100081