New Menu at Horizon Chinese Restaurant at Kerry Hotel Beijing

Exquisite Cuisine, Classic Flavors

Horizon Chinese Restaurant presents a newly updated menu. The menu features classic Beijing dishes, wholesome double-boiled soups, traditional Cantonese clay pot dishes, and a variety of fresh seafood cooked to your preference. We're also introducing our weekday set lunch and set dinner menus, bringing variety to your lunches, with more options for dinner as well as a venue for family gatherings on weekdays.

Chef Yuan Chaoying’s Signature Dishes

With 42 years of experience in the culinary field, Chef Yuan is proud to present three signature dishes in the new menu that aren't to be missed when dining at Horizon Chinese Restaurant. The ever-popular Jing Ya Yuan Peking duck as well as two-time honored Beijing dishes, traditional roasted and steamed pork and traditional wood-fired oven-roasted chicken. The latter two dishes are prepared using a 156-year-old technique that is similar to the cooking of Peking duck.

As you enter Horizon Chinese Restaurant, your attention will be drawn to the open kitchen, which houses the traditional wood-fired oven used in the roasting of Peking duck. Guests are able to view the skilled roasting of each duck from start to finish. Every duck is precisely carved and sliced table-side, with each slice measuring 5cm long and 0.2cm thick. The sliced duck is served together with Chinese pancakes, Chinese buns, and a combination of condiments that include sweet sauce, leek, minced garlic, cucumber, and sugar. The duck has the right amount of fat yet is not greasy, and when eaten together with condiments makes for a flavorful experience.

Preparing traditional Beijing roasted and steamed pork starts with a carefully selected cut of pork belly that is marinated and then air-dried. The air-dried meat is roasted for one hour in a traditional wood-fired oven, maintained at a temperature of 200 degrees Celsius until the pork is golden brown and its skin is beautifully crackling. The roasted pork is left to cool for one day, after which it is steamed for one hour to soften it. It is then sliced and steamed for another hour, together with a sauce specially concocted by Chef Yuan, making the meat even more tender and boasting a succulent layer of skin and fat. After a four-day cooking process, this time-honored Beijing dish is finally completed, with traditional flavors that invoke memories of days past.

Similarly elaborate, only carefully selected chickens weighing no more than three pounds each are used for the traditional wood-fired oven-roasted chicken to ensure the best quality. The chicken is marinated in more than ten different spices for one day and air-dried in a temperature-controlled room for another day. It is then hung to roast in a wood-fired oven, a technique that has been used for roasting Peking duck for more than 100 years. The chicken is roasted for 60 minutes, allowing an even distribution of the chicken fat and the fragrance of the jujube wood to permeate the chicken, resulting in a roasted chicken with crispy skin and tender, flavorful meat.

Cantonese Classics

The finest ingredients are selected for Horizon’s double-boiled soups. The soups are cooked over a slow fire in a large thick-walled clay pot, allowing the soups to take on the natural flavors of the ingredients. Horizon recommends the double-boiled black chicken with black garlic soup. Naturally fermented black garlic, known for its immunity-boosting qualities, is combined with black chicken that is rich in protein and dried scallops. Using a traditional Cantonese method of double-boiling results in a wholesome flavorful soup while retaining the natural sweetness and nutrition of the ingredients.

Clay pot dishes are another classic Cantonese cuisine. Selected seasonal foods are cooked over a slow fire, preserving the natural taste and nutritional content of the ingredients. Traditional clay pot rice with assorted preserved sausages is a well known classic clay pot dish. Washed fragrant rice is cooked over high heat for five minutes, removing excess starch in the process. Thereafter, it is combined with assorted preserved meats and cooked over low heat for 30-40 minutes, during which time the rice absorbs the flavors of the preserved meat. Seasoned soy sauce is drizzled over the cooked rice and stirred to combine, resulting in a fragrant delicious dish.

Braised codfish fillet with garlic, shallots, and basil leaf is another clay pot dish worth mentioning. Drawing inspiration from the dish, "three-cup chicken," this dish is cooked with three cups of sauce, namely Chinese cooking wine, soy sauce, and honey. High-quality silver cod combined with these sauces produces a dish with the right amount of sweetness and saltiness with the heat and flavors kept in with the use of the clay pot.

Fresh Seasonal Seafood

Mandarin fish, marble goby, garoupa, eastern spotted garoupa, Australian lobster, live shrimp... a variety of fresh seasonal seafood cooked to your preference. Choose from soy steamed, deep-fried with soy sauce, braised with garlic, wok-fried with butter sauce, poached in Sichuan chili pepper oil, or steamed with chili.

Set Menus

Horizon has launched a set menu for each day of the week. Treat yourself to a weekday lunch set with three sets to choose from. Each set includes soup, dim sum or barbecue combination, main dish, vegetables, and rice or noodles. With a variety of options and priced at RMB 138 per set, dine on tasty dishes with ease and peace of mind.

Weekday dinner set menus are ideal for those after-work get-togethers. Each set has been carefully assembled to include appetizers, a seafood dish, a vegetable dish, clay pot rice, and seasonal fruit platter. Priced at RMB 588 per set, it is good for three people. End your weekday on a perfect note with award-winning food and service.

A dim sum set menu for two people is available on weekends. Horizon Chinese Restaurant has combined their most popular dim sum dishes, together with Cantonese barbecued meats, braised combination platter, and clay pot rice, so you can have an appetizing, fulfilling, and relaxing weekend.

About Horizon Chinese Restaurant

Horizon Chinese Restaurant draws on both modern as well as traditional Chinese elements for its interior, creating an impactful atmosphere from the moment you enter. Tables in the birdcage-themed semi-private area are artfully separated by vertically placed wooden strips, while custom-made chandeliers effortlessly blend into the area. Hand-painted artworks further enhance the pale yellow tones of the walls.

Horizon Chinese Restaurant has a total of six private rooms all named after flowers. Four rooms have an attached bathroom and three rooms feature a kitchenette, with our chefs always ready to attend to your needs. The well-trained service staff provides efficient and attentive service, to ensure the best experience.

Horizon Chinese Restaurant
Daily 11.30am-2.30pm, 5.30-10pm. 1/F, Kerry Hotel, 1 Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang District (6561 8833 ext 41)
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Photos courtesy of Horizon Chinese Restaurant