Xiang Shang Xiang (Jinhe East Road)

Xiang Shang Xiang's Jinhe East Road restaurant is the original branch of a business that later expanded in Beijing and Chengdu. Michelin dates the beginning of that story to 2021 at this outlet. The current address is units L301A-L302A on level three of CP Center, 20 Jinhe East Road, and the MICHELIN Guide Beijing and Tianjin 2027 includes it as a Selected restaurant.

Chef Peng brings more than twenty years of experience to a menu that Michelin says is revised periodically. The central idea is not simply to make every dish hot. The guide identifies a set menu using 24 different chilli peppers, giving the kitchen a broad ingredient vocabulary within Hunan cooking. The current sequence is therefore worth discussing as a whole rather than reducing the visit to one supposed permanent signature.

The service has an unusually specific structure. Michelin names a butler, tea master and sommelier, so the meal can include separate conversations about the food, tea and wine. For a diner who wants to understand how drinks work with the menu, that is a practical feature rather than a general claim of attentive service.

CP Center's official retail directory independently lists 湘上湘 at L301a and L302a on the third floor. The bilingual name and unit numbers are useful when distinguishing this first outlet from the brand's other locations. They also establish that the restaurant is in the Jinhe East Road development, not at an unrelated Hunan or Sichuan restaurant with a similar translated name.

Call +86 10 8597 2666 for this branch. Ask which set menu is currently offered and explain any limits on chilli heat before booking. The aim is to choose a suitable version of the restaurant's documented chilli-led approach, not to assume that all 24 peppers produce the same sensation or that every diner receives an identical menu.