Beijing Shougang Park | Experience the fun of three blast furnaces and traditional hand-carved chocolate.
🌞This weekend, visit Shougang Park in Shijingshan for a limited and fresh travel experience!
1️⃣The first stop is to check in at Shougang No. 3 Blast Furnace, gain an in-depth understanding of the history and technology of the steel industry, and experience the unique charm of modern industrial heritage after transformation. The Shougang No. 3 blast furnace was completed and put into operation in May 1959. It is Shougang’s first modern large-scale blast furnace with a furnace capacity of more than 2,500 cubic meters, marking an important progress of Shougang in the steel industry.
✅The "How Steel Is Made" exhibition area on the 9.7-meter platform allows you to walk into the equipment and learn about the entire steelmaking process from mining to ironmaking, steelmaking and finished products. ✅Take the elevator to the 40-meter suspended glass viewing platform higher up in the blast furnace. The crane beam on the top of the blast furnace was once the highest point in the Shougang Park that tourists can reach. Here you can get close to the three blast furnaces and overlook the beautiful scenery of the Shougang Park and the surrounding cities. The view is broad and unique, and the majestic posture of the steel industry is truly spectacular.
🌲Steel suspension bridge, outdoor climbing platform, in the distance is a monument pavilion at the highest point in Shougang Park. Climbing the mountain to see the distance and get close to nature is very shocking for both vision and photography. You can also visit nearby attractions such as Beijing Winter Olympic Park and Fahai Temple Forest Park.
🌃After the renovation, the three blast furnaces have become the landmark buildings of Shougang Park and a popular check-in spot in Shijingshan District. A series of night tours, various cultural exhibitions and exchange activities, concerts, song and dance performances, creative markets and experience halls are held from time to time. It has enriched the cultural and interactive experience of tourists in all aspects, and also enhanced the cultural taste and fun participation of the Shougang Park.
🏠Come to Shougang Chaganger and experience the ancient method of hand-carving DIY handmade chocolate. The restaurant was converted from a former Shougang factory building. It has a unique environment that combines industrial style with literary and artistic style. The decoration is full of a sense of age and has very prominent features. The space is not small, with white and green as the main tones, and green plants decorating everywhere. The style is simple and rustic, with a bit of the retro feel of Hong Kong-style tea restaurants in the 1980s. The English songs played were very nice and the atmosphere in the store was relaxed and pleasant, very suitable for today's casual gathering.
🍫Mr. Sun, a professional authority in the industry, started with the history of hand-carved chocolate, which originated thousands of years ago when ancient Mesoamericans first picked cocoa beans from trees and used primitive techniques such as fire roasting and stone grinding to make the earliest cocoa drink, which has continued to this day.
Today we will experience the traditional method of grinding cocoa beans by hand with a stone chisel to restore the original flavor and texture of chocolate.
⚙️The production steps of ancient hand-chiselled DIY chocolate: 🫘First: select high-quality cocoa beans, roast them, put them into the stone chisel and grind them repeatedly until they become fine powder. This process is the most challenging in terms of endurance and physical strength, because it is really ground into crumbs bit by bit, and then slowly ground into fine powder.
🍬Secondly: add cocoa butter, sugar and other raw materials into the ground cocoa powder and mix them evenly, put them in the refrigerator to cool briefly, so that the chocolate reaches the ideal texture and taste, and finally inject the chocolate liquid into the mold to cool and shape it, and then demold it, and the screw chocolates are ready~
🔩I tasted it, and the "screw" chocolate with the traditional hand-carved flavor is delicious. It has the original flavor and aroma of cocoa beans, the taste is richer and mellower, and it is delicate and silky in the mouth. The whole process is very interesting and healing, leaving people with endless aftertaste.
🏗️Walk into the Shougang Park in Shijingshan, learn about the past and present of the three blast furnaces, learn and make DIY chocolates using the traditional hand-carved method at Chaganger, and take home beautiful photos of the industrial style and screw chocolates. This weekend is perfect~