Shenzhen Restaurants

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You may notice the photographs for this review are a little better than usual. Borrowing a better camera with which to take these unusual pictures was definitely justified. This is no ordinary restaurant. Oh no. This is a trendy (debatable) Taiwanese chain of restaurants beginning to appear down south (no puns intended) within China and Hong Kong decked out with toilet-themed seats, menus and fittings. The toilets in question come in both Western and Eastern varieties so you needn't feel left out if you favour a squatter over the fore-mentioned throne. Watch this space, you could yet be seeing them scattered all over your city and I think one in London would be oh so fun also.

Something about spending Boxing Day on the toilet just felt right.
Cheapish food at one of the busiest streets in town so not much to complain about. Friendly, playful staff (one put a turd-shaped cushion on my head so that my partner could take a photograph) and clean, newly furnished interior. There are two floors to this restaurant - a second floor with windows out onto busy Dongmen Commercial Street and a third floor larger dining space without windows. Better restaurants around but a novel and different, comical dining experience.
Bring in a camera for copious picture opportunities to brighten up your 'facespace' or whatever ...
It all left me thinking, what were the toilets like?

Favorite Dish: Udon noodles with fried pork steak or the pork with rice and vegetables were both good and proportionally inexpensive for the district.
Icecreams, smoothies and shakes also available.

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Not quite as polished as the website would suggest, this restaurant can be found in the upmarket Coco Park area of Futian District, Shenzhen. I saw several rats scuttling about the decking outside in the area I sat on a sunny December lunchtime. Always interesting being the first customers of the day as you get an insight into how places are really run. The impressive menu at The Kitchen would make any expat mouth water. I thought I'd already seen something I'd wanted via '.pdf' days in advance however opting for a Vegetable Curry with rice was an excellent choice and a different kind of flavour on my now (somewhat reluctant) Chinese palate.

Funky modern design, inside and out. If anything, it's quite a darkly lit place and saw little atmosphere during the early lunchtime period. Would like to visit again next time I'm in town.

Favorite Dish: A Vegetable Indian Curry at RMB75 was good value for money
My partner's Parmesan Chicken, 85RMB rated 6 1/2 - 7 out of 10 which is pretty good for China - bacon slightly too crispy and cheese a little too baked but well cooked meat and good partions here.

Regular Coffee at RMB20
& glass of Sendero Cabernet Sauvignon RMB40 made for a very pleasant lunch

When it comes to Hunan, the most famous Hunanese in the world is Chairman Mao, who led the revolution of China; but when it comes to famous Chinese cuisine, Hunanese is one of the best among all. Famous for its spicy style, Hunanese food can be very very spicy. Most of the time, you see more chillis than any other ingredient in your plates.
Mao's Kitchen, namely, is in the name of Chairman Mao. There you can see a lot of Mao's pictures hanging on the wall. All of the private room is named after a place in Hunan; mine was An-yuan 1898. I suppoed that this should be where Chairman Mao was while he was alive. The food is quite authentic, in other word, very spicy. Service is not awesome, but in a remote industrial town of Shenzhen, this is considered good already.
This place is good for both private meeting or business meeting.

Favorite Dish: I like their sweetened lotus root stuffed with glutinous rice. It is not main dish, but somehow, it's my fave. Their fried spicy pork liver is also very nice, but due to high cholesterol reason, I don't really eat a lot. The braised fat pork is good, for the same reason, I could not eat too much.

Sorry, I was busy preparing wine and looking for others, I didn't take any pics after the dinner started.

Good ambience, nice and helpful waiters. Go early as some food are limited such as prawns and beef. Good place to bring your date.

Favorite Dish: Good Baked Oyster which has some garlic in it. The beef slices are ok.

i can eat in this restaurant everyday. the dishes are mock meat dishes, and mostly chinese buddhist vegetarian. many are spicy but all are tasy and satisfying. what's best, at 28rmb per dish (at least from the picture menu), it certainly beats my other western resto options. for non-chinese speakers like me the picture menu is most helpful because the staff do not speak english. open from 9 am to 10pm.

Favorite Dish: the "shrimp balls" and sweet and sour "fish"

the third vegetarian restaurant i have discovered in shenzhen (thanks to my veggie pal james), dengpin is like an oasis for people practicing ahimsa. it's also a buddhist resto, so onion and garlic are also not allowed. bu they do serve beer and alcohol and dishes with mushroom
go for the veggie buffet!
but i will definitely come back to try ala carte next time.

Favorite Dish: mock ham in gravy like sauce..sorry i dont know what its called...

Excellent food with an excellent service. The first time we came there, everybody watched us, even the local kids came to gave us a hand. The next days we tried to order ourselves, but with the knowledge of our Chinese, that wasn't always easy.

You see here, Alfred from Hong Kong, me and Theo.

Favorite Dish: The fresh sea food

The service is perfect, if you take a sip of your tea or beer, they fill it up again. Is your plate a bit full with bones or other things, they bring another one.

And the food is delicious.

The first time we (Europeans) entered we got giggles and smiles, later they were used to us, but ordering stays an special experience.