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A taste of Harbin

Tadaosi

塔道斯西餐厅

A Central Avenue Russian restaurant with a Lithuanian-Russian lineage and a cellar-like dining room hung with old Harbin photographs. It sits in the same cluster as Huamei and draws the same crowds; reviews are more mixed than the queue length suggests, so go for the setting and order conservatively.

¥120–170 per person≈ US$18Daoli District, Central Avenue (中央大街)
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

Listed on Ctrip's Harbin must-visit restaurant ranking (No. 3 at the time of checking) and a long-standing Central Avenue name; no culinary award.

The house favourites

What to order

Point at the Chinese. Staff will understand it even where the menu has no English at all.

  • Clay-pot braised beef (罐焖牛肉)
  • Moscow salad (莫斯科沙拉)
  • Red sausage (红肠)
  • Russian fried bread (俄式面包)

What it actually tastes like

Sweet-leaning Russian-Chinese cooking with a lot of cream and tomato. The red sausage has a strong smoked-garlic funk.

Allergens in this kitchen

dairygluten/wheategg

This is the kitchen, not one dish. Woks, fryers, blanching water and utensils are shared in almost every Chinese restaurant, so for a serious allergy treat the whole premises as the unit rather than ordering around it.

Get to know the menu

Local specialities to try here

Harbin Red Sausage 哈尔滨红肠Smoky, garlicky and firmly salty, with a snappy casing and visible cubes of fat — closest to a Lithuanian or Polish smoked sausage.