Parati Restaurant

11:30am-2pm, RMB100-200

120 Sanlitun South Road

Brazilian BBQ, lunch RMB68/each person, dinner RMB98/each person.

Schiller's

6pm-late, 11:30am-late weekends Under RMB200

West gate of Chaoyang Park

Brazilian style buffet daily from 6-11pm, RMB88 per person. Live band starting at 9:00pm.

BUBBLE TEA (ZHENZHU NAICHA)

Cafe D'amour

10am-10:30pm, RMB16

-69 North Dongdan Avenue

-Oriental Plaza UG 169

Ultra modern pearl milk tea store that also serves espresso. Don't get a flavored tea unless you want to be overpowered by sugar, but the regular flavor is great.

Easy Time

8am-midnight, RMB18

38 Haidian Road, west of the Beida South gate

Here's a store to sattsty your cravings if you live near Beijing University. Opened over three years ago, this one feels like you've gone to Taiwan for a vacation.

Fairyland

10am-1am, RMB14-23

-69 Dongdan Beidajie, Dongcheng District

East side of the Qianmen Jian Building, Chongwen District

-137 Xiwai Dajie, Xicheng District

-3A Chongwenmen Wai dajie, Chongwen District

Ten flavors of pearl milk tea, swing chairs, fake trees and vines. Especially recommended is the yuanyang tea, a mixture of coffee and tea. Warning: there is fierce and not entirely friendly competition for the swing chairs.

Kuaisanmiao

9am-9am, RMB5/2 cups

Dongsi Shitiao 35-1, Dongcheng District

A shop to get a quick fix.

Pure Girl

10am-10:30pm, RMB10

17 Sanlitun South Road

Highly recommended milk tea stand on Sanlitun, look for the blond doll who mixes the tea for you.

Quickly

RMB10

-Scitech Plaza, across Jianguomen Waidajie from the Friendship Store

-Basement of Henderson Center, 18 Jianguomen Neidajie

-56 Xinjiekou Nandajie, just south of the Xinjiekou Hotel

Fast food style milk tea chain hailing from Taipei, where you can't go one block without running into one. Standard flavor pearl milk tea in sealed cups.

Shanjia Yayuan

10am-2am, RMB18

Gongti North Road, across from Havana Cafe

A place that will let you drift away to xiaojie-land, with pastel tangerine and lime walls, swing chairs and an extremely loud bird. However, the teas are small and expensive.