There are many places to try some local snacksat dusk when you finish your daily program, such Donghuamen, Drum Bell, where they offer bountiful snacks of fare for the frugal. For just two or three dollars, you can finish the day with a roast cake, an aiwowo - a soft mashed bean cake stuffed with mashed red bean, a donkey-rolling-over - a soft multi-layered bean cake, and a bowl of bean curd jelly. Low-cost meals make for high competition among the capital eateries, making it tough for dim sum diners - especially the pricier places - to keep the lights on and the trolleys rolling.
Around Drum Tower, there are many small eateries worth tasting include the crisp shelled cake with mashed red bean stuffing and deep-fried glutinous rice flour with mashed red bean stuffing.
More adventurous snackers can sample the fermented bean juice, which is usually ordered with a plateful of deep-fried crispy flour loops and a few pickled turnip slices. It is believed to be a typical traditional treat for old Beijingers.
The place also offers standards, such as fried shredded cake, noodles and cake with pork stuffing.
These meals can be washed down with millet and rice porridge, fragrant fried-flour tea or mutton giblet soup. The restaurant is small, with only five tables for four, and a Chinese-language menu displayed on the wall.
Wherever you go in Beijing, especially in old town, along the small lanes, you always have a chance to target such kind of small eateries where you can enjoy a very typical Beijing flavor.

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