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A taste of Inner Mongolia

Dazhao Maixiangcun

大召麦香村

A near-century-old restaurant tucked beside the Dazhao Temple in the old city, and one of the names on Hohhot's list of historic eating houses. It does the Hohhot version of northwestern cooking — shaomai, noodles, mutton — in a plain room full of local regulars, and it is the best-placed of the old brands for a visitor already walking the Dazhao and Saishang Old Street circuit.

¥60–90 per person≈ US$8.94Hohhot century-old restaurant (百年老店)Yuquan District, Dazhao Xijiadao, beside Dazhao Temple (大召西夹道店)
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

Listed among Hohhot's century-old restaurants (百年老店) and ranked on Ctrip's Hohhot lists at around ¥79 per head; no graded award.

The house favourites

What to order

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

  • Mutton and spring onion shaomai (羊肉大葱烧麦)
  • Mutton offal soup (羊杂碎)
  • Fried sweet millet cake (油炸糕)
  • Brick tea (砖茶)

What it actually tastes like

Mutton fat is the base note of nearly everything. Yangza is real offal — tripe, lung, intestine — in a peppery broth, and the pure-tripe version is the milder option if you want to ease in.

Allergens in this kitchen

gluten/wheatsoydairy

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

Lamb offal soup 羊杂碎Salty, peppery and deeply savoury with a strong organ-meat edge; the red chilli oil on top is what locals judge a bowl by.Fried yellow rice cake 油炸糕Crisp shell, very chewy sweet interior; the millet gives a faint sourness under the sugar.