What's New Restaurants: Shi Yi Flame Cooking, Tunsanli Mall

As far as restaurant concepts go, choosing to set everything on fire doesn’t seem like the most sustainable business plan. We jest of course, but this really is the inspiration behind the menu of hip, design-oriented restaurant Shi Yi Flame Cooking located within Gongti’s Tunsanli Mall.

As the name of the restaurant suggests, the quirky menu leads with a series of steaks and flambéed dishes. The signature Sizzling Steak (RMB 98) is flambéed in Cognac at the table, the thin-cut steak still surprisingly tender and with a pleasantly astringent edge from the alcohol. The meat is locally sourced and this commitment to positive sourcing extends to the rest of the dishes – a new selection of summer salads are made with vegetables from an organic farm in Hebei owned by the restaurant group that owns Shi Yi. 

Cool the flames of your steak with one of their vast selection of chilled juices, smoothies, and teas, including a crazy mango-carrot-milk option that comes topped with a cloud of cotton candy. Have your camera phones at the ready.

Shi Yi may not be to everyone’s taste, but for a quick, fun and good value meal in the Gongti area, it is a welcome choice.

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Photos: Joey Guo