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The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits Breakfast Menu

Posted: June 4th, 2022 | 4 Comments »

The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits was, after the Grand Hotel on Chang’an Avenue, the best hotel in Peking. It was also handy for the railway station at Chienmen (Qianmen) and the Legation Quarter, originally built in 1905 by the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels. The better known later version of the hotel was built in 1904 on the same site in the Flemish Gothic style,. Unlike the Grand Hotel it was only a couple of floors though with incredibly long corridors. It was destroyed after 1949 in the Maoist ‘redevelopment’ of the area.

And what a breakfast menu (from 7-10am). I must admit i’d probably order it all except the mutton chop, which seems a little extreme to me as a breakfast item!

4 Comments on “The Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits Breakfast Menu”

  1. 1 Bill Lascher said at 4:42 am on June 5th, 2022:

    I love that the menu includes how long each item should take.

  2. 2 Judith Schwartz said at 1:53 pm on November 12th, 2022:

    I have a caviar knife from GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS-LITS, LIMITED. I’m wondering if there is a place it would be appreciated.

  3. 3 Ludmilla Herni said at 9:10 pm on January 24th, 2023:

    Wauw! Researching for my book about my grandparents, I am so glad to find this! They stayed here in May 1931 (fleeing from Harbin, for the Japanese, to Shanghai and then to Java, Indonesia). Thank you!

  4. 4 David said at 11:21 pm on January 28th, 2023:

    I have assorted silver plate dinner serving ware from the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits Peking, collected while I was working in Beijing from 1975-1977. I bought them from an antique store there.

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