Xiamen Restaurants

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saw alot of local queueing up for the food and so we joined the queue too. though its written as korean food but its more to local taste. you choose the food that u want, and they will grill it and add in some spicy pepper..

KFC should not be new to everyone. But in China, you will need to wear disposable glove when enjoying the chicken. The choices of chicken is also different from Singapore style. and they also have delicious egg tarts.

Favorite Dish: juicy chicken parts and egg tarts

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Steamboats refer to a variety of dishes eaten where ingredients are cooked in a simmering pot of broth at the table, usually communally, similar to a fondue.
Typical steamboat ingredients include thinly sliced meat, leafy vegetables, mushrooms, tofu, noodles or seafood. The cooked food is either eaten with a dipping sauce, or sometimes as a soup.

In many areas, steamboats are often eaten in the winter.

As known as Hot pot

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Xiao fei Yang is famous in China. it has got lots of branches all over China. its famous for its lamb slice. You will order the raw food, and you will cook the food in the boiling soup. Late operating hours. its best to eat it during winter... There are more than 2 types of soups. you can choose your own type of soup, if u can't take spicy soup, then ask for chicken soup which is non spicy. or u can ask for yuan yang, which will be separate 2 type of soup.

Favorite Dish: the lamb and other meats are tasty. it also have internal organs of pig, lamb, beef, chicken.

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according to the boss, this is a newly open dessert restaurant. Boss is friendly to recommend the dessert that is the most common in the restaurant.

Favorite Dish: Mango Ice. Its topped with Ice cream and fresh mango... yummy....

I have been to Xiamen many times and because I stay in the Marco Polo I always go to this one street which is full of Western Restaurants and Cafes right across from the hotel. It seems each time I go there is a new place to try. Last time I went there was this great new place. It is a little confusing at first, I don't know if it is two places in one or one place but there seems to be a cafe and patio on the first floor and italian restaurant on the second floor. The place feels really Western and this is great for me. I often get caught up traveling about in China. The menu was in English, real English not translations and the staff seemed to understand and speak some also. The food was very authentic tasting and good portions. It didn't seem like Chinese Western but real Western. I picked up a name card and the manager is Western so I think this has a lot to do with it. The ambiance is comfortable, better on the patio and the second floor than on the first floor inside. Everyone was very friendly.

Favorite Dish: I had the caesar salad and a cheese burger. My friend had the caesar salad and the lasagna. We both agree the caesar salad was one of the best salads we have had in a while. No corn or other strange things. Just real caesar salad. Also, the burger. Man, I am an American and take my burgers seriously. This place has an amazing authentic western style burger. Big, juicy and delicious. MY friend loved her lasagna, although she couldn't finish it because it was pretty big. We also had desert which was fantastic but I can't remember what it was called. It was very delicious though. I defintely recommend this place. the prices were also very reasonable.

The waitress are pretty inexperienced when it comes to services and meeting customer's request.

We asked for more garlic in a dish but she said that i have to take it as it is. when we asked for a copy of the bill so that I can remember the name of dishes we had, she said that it will be too difficult to retrieve it from the cashier.

Favorite Dish: The surgeon fish and eel are highly recommended. We went on 2 consecutive evenings to have them.

The fried oyster and popiah were interesting variation from that served in Singapore.

Down by the ferry port which takes you over to the different islands nearby including Gulangyu, (more on that place later...), there's a w hole line of restaurants sporting seafood galore on their doorsteps. They all look really wonderful in their brightly coloured buckets, but to be honest, I didnt recognise half of them?! China has so many different kinds of fish compared to back home in Spain, I must look really stupid when they ask me if I know the name of this fish or the name of that one! Oh well!!!

So yes, plenty of lovely looking fish but the actual restaurants look like they could do with a scrub! But that goesfor many small restaurants in the WHOLE of China! THERE was the usual spitting on the floor, 'bai jiu' (China's answer to vodka!) and bottles of beer overflowing from each table. The atmosphere was good, but I was to remember that restaurant for a long time after!

Favorite Dish: We had prawns, crabs, octopus, some strange but tasty looking fish and of course some beer to wash it down with! Whenever I eat seafood in China Im always wary. I dont really know why, but for some reason I just think that it might have been sitting around for ages and be 'out of date' so to speak!

Although very tasty, myself and the cameraman (I was out shooting on this trip) were violently sick all throughout the night meaning we couldnt go to see Gulangyu Islet the next day.....oh well, the weather wasnt that good anyway!!!

So my parting words to you are just 'BE CAREFUL WHERE AND WHAT YOU EAT!'