Chips & Dips Opens a Literal Hole in the Wall in Andingmen
Snack Attack is your weekly guide to the sometimes smelly, sometimes flavorful, sometimes odd munchies to be had in the capital.
Andingmen has gotten a new snack time option in the form of Chips & Dips' first brick and mortar shop in Beijing, offering their eponymous chips and dips – as well as other offerings like wraps – to the masses.
Owned and operated by Serbian native and longtime Beijing expat Ivan Matic, Chips & Dips is actually the first overseas outing for his shop of the same name in Belgrade, which itself was born in 2020 when Matic found himself stuck in his home country due to Covid.
Chips & Dips' new storefront
“I found myself in my hometown with nothing to do, so I started making sauces,” Matic tells me during a visit. “I eventually found a shop to rent near my house, set everything up, and it became very popular.”
With the overnight popularity of his Belgrade shop, Matic decided to take Chips & Dips with him when he returned to Beijing in late 2020. At first, he began selling his products at Rumble in the Jumble events, where he says his dips would sell out every time.
The shop offers up chips, dip and wraps like the Layla
The idea to set up a brick and mortar shop happened only recently, when Matic was put in touch with nugget café co-owner Dave.
Operating from a window which opens on to the patio to the right of nugget, the Chips & Dips shop serves Matic’s original dips plus some new varieties, like a special Serbian style red pepper dip. There are also wraps, which Matic explains are named for all the women he has met or known while living in Beijing.
The full Chips & Dips menu
“Layla is my cousin, KC is the singer of our band, Chiara is a woman who would help me manage Chips & Dips, and Charlotte organizes Rumble in the Jumble.”
Ivan hopes that when live music gets the okay to go again, he’ll be able to join in for nugget’s events and tiny stage concerts, but for now, the shop is open everyday from 11am-9pm, where you can get wraps, dips and more to snack the day away in the hutongs.
Chips & Dips
8 Andingmen Garden Front Alley, Dongcheng District
东城区安定门花园前巷8号
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Images: courtesy of Chips & Dips
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