Tongrentang Review

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Tongrentang

  • Address: 24 Dazhalan, Qianmen, Exit C, Chongwen District, Beijing

Fodor's Review:

A first-time consultation with a Chinese doctor can feel a bit like a reading with a fortune-teller. With one test of the pulse, many traditional Chinese doctors can describe the patient's medical history and diagnose current maladies. China's most famous traditional Chinese medicine shop, Tongrentang, is the jewel of Dazhalan, the charming pedestrian street just south of Qianmen. Palatial, hushed, and dimly lit, this 300-year-old old shop even smells healthy. Browse the glassed displays of deer antlers and pickled snakes, dried seahorse and frog, and delicate tangles of roots with precious price tags of Y48,000. If you don't speak Chinese and wish to have a consultation with a doctor, bring along a translator.

  • Metro: Qianmen
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