Guangzhou Food Restaurants

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Visitors to Guangzhou never fail to be amazed at the size and scope of the city’s heve amaz restaurants, some large enough to seat literally thousands of diners on each of their multiple floors. Nowhere in the world do people eat out as much as they do here. Every self-respecting establishment has a full array of live fish and fowl on display for patrons ine to inspect before eating. Freshness, major factor in Cantonese cuisine, is deemed to be so important that everything is kept alive either in huge water tanks or tightly grilled cages. For an overseas visitor this can all be rather daunting. Requests for “chop suey” and “chow mein” will be received with blank stares; menus are overflowing with bizarre delicacies such as stir-fried giblets and all manner of chicken’s feet.

Recently, statistics showed that there were almost 20, 000 restaurants in Guangzhou and that locals spent more per capita on dining out than in any other city in China.

Particularly renowned are Cantonese soups; often they include ingredients that claim to have therapeutic properties. Soups in the south are served first in the meal while in the north they’re served last. Another local specialty is (baizhan ji ) a boiled chicken chopped into bite size pieces and served with soy sauce or a dipping paste of ginger and green onions. Beijing may have its duck, but the quack doesn’t stop there.

Guangzhou’s barbequed duck is equally famous it’s served in small pieces with a plum sauce or a light gravy dip.

The Cantonese love affair with all that’s edible goes beyond the three daily meals all of us are familiar with the Cantonese gourmand also partakes in wu cha or zao cha( iterally be translated as morning tea.afternoon tea and late night snack). Yum cha, literally meaning to drink tea, is mor commonly known in the West as dim sum, which roughly translates as “heart’s delight and can be as early as 6 or 7 am or in the of small steamed or deep fried dishes served in round bamboo containers. Dmag than anamed buns with meat fillings to shrimp dumplings to marinated tripe. Yum cha is more than an eating excursion, but rather a social event -the estaurants tend to be loud and boisterous places with families and friends gathered around large tables with restaurants wheeling out endless trolleys of freshly made dim sum dishes to accompany piping hot cups of tea. Ordering is easy just point to what’s on the trolley.

If you want to do some restaurant browsing head over to Xi Guan at Shangxia Jiu Lu; you’ll find a street packed with traditional restaurants there Bars in Guangzhou are clustered on three streets: Huanshi Lu(huanshi lu).The Bai’e Tan bar street is only 10 minutes away from Fangcun subway station by foot. Many of the bars here cater to the large expat population and feature live entertainment.

RESTAURANTS

Dongjiang Seafood Restaurant

Branches all over town, go to the aquarium and choose the aquatic critter you want toeat.

2 Qiaoguang Lu

24 hours

Guangzhou Restaurant

A tasty chicken dish they serve here is called wenchang ji () the chicken is first boiled, then steamed then fried; lobster is also available here(sanselongxia)

2 Wenchang Nan Lu

7 am to 3 pm, 5: 30 pm to 10 pm

Huacheng Haixian Jiujia