Savor the bites of spring

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BEIJING

Stylish Chinese home cooking

Country Kitchen celebrates Beijing's seasonal bounty with a selection of cold appetizers, soups, home-style hot dishes and noodles. Our faves among the home-style Chinese courses has the stir-fried beef tenderloin with yam and bamboo shoots, which we ordered with steamed cornmeal buns with braised pork and newly harvested green chives with organic chicken eggs from Shunyi Farm. Other menu stars: Wok-fried ox-head meat, and stir-fried sea bass fillet with gan gu chili.

Country Kitchen, Rosewood Hotel, Jing Guang Centre, Hujialou, Chao-yang district; 010-6597-8888.

Healthy, tasty and delivered

If spring renewal means more focus on fitness after a slow winter of heavy foods, Factory Fresh has a spring lineup that keeps meals fun, delivered to your door. Four menu levels with up to three meals and two snacks per day are respectively scaled to your lifestyle: Fit (1,200 calories daily, for those eager to get in shape), Lifestyle (1,600 calories, for balanced energy all day), X4Mance (2,200 calories, for athletes and the active), and 80 Percent (800 calories, in two meals and a snack, for the busiest people). Our Tuesday meals this spring included chia-and-almond milk pudding with mango puree for breakfast, vegan "pancakes" for snack No 1, garlic chicken kebab with sides for lunch, spiced cassava muffin for snack No 2, and pan-seared Icelandic cod with quinoa for dinner. Evening delivery in many parts of Beijing from 798 Art Zone area for next-day meals; catering for groups and special events available.

Factory Fresh, factoryfreshbeijing.com; 156-1108-0348.