Yangshuo Restaurants

We ate breakfast at this cafe a couple times in May of 2008. Service was good, portions fairly large for this area. We paid about 25RMB, approx. $3.50USD for a breakfast of eggs or muesli, toast, large Lipton tea and fresh OJ. Orange juice is always pricey in China.

Pretty location just off a small lake where cormorant fishermen laze about the green waters. The option to sit on the deck outside probably makes for highly contested seating during the warm months. They have internet and a pool table as well. The bridge just beyond the entrance to the deck provides good people-watching. Their food is decent- unless they simply messed up the order, the coffee-chocolate milkshake with icecream had no icecream and wasn't actually a milkshake- more like iced coffee. Banana pancakes are a delicacy in Yangshuo, though they're more like crepes. Their flavor at Minne Mao's is good enough, but I wasn't really impressed. The banana milkshake was good, but not really what the west thinks of as a milkshake either. That's all we ate there, but they have coffee and other real food and the main attraction in my mind is the deck.

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Dynasty of Dumplings provides northern-style dumplings to Yangshuo in a small but pleasant restaurant just off the main drag. The wooden exterior opens to a warm, family environment, and the TV will probably be on. They have a good selection of dumplings, many of which I believe are served 12 per order, plus many other items. Beer and other drinks are reasonably priced.

Favorite Dish: We had the pork and the lamb dumplings. As good as Harbin's!

There are three sauces to deal with- one is soy sauce, the second is vinegar, I believe, and the third is the pot of crushed chili peppers. Mix those for dipping, to taste, in the provided plate.

Cafe Under the Moon, located on West Street in Yangshuo Town, serves some very good omelettes for breakfast, loaded with meat and vegetables... When order fresh juice, be sure to ask if it's all 100 percent juice or if they put water in it... Then they will bring you 100 percent juice... But if you don't ask, they will probably mix water in with the juice, and most restaurants in Yangshuo follow this same scheme...

Stone Roses is a very well known restaurant/coffeehouse/bar on West Street in the heart of Yangshuo town... Its interior decor features a vast expanse of stones on the walls... We had a lunch there and the food was very good... I especially remember an excellent bowl of cucumber soup, which I am eating in the photo seen here...!

Le Votre Cafe has al fresco dining available but also has an interestingly decorated interior as well, shown in this photo... It includes an almost endless panorama of Buddhas statues, eclectically mixed in with gigantic wall portraits of Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai, as well as some traditional French advertisement posters from around the early 20th century...

Le Votre Cafe is the most famous French restaurant in Yangshuo, with an array of traditional French culinary options available for the gastronome... They also have some very good Italian pizzas on hand, and if you ask, they'll bring you some olive oil to drizzle on top...! Only one complaint about this place: there creme brulee was the worst I've had anywhere in the world; it seemed they didn't know what the words meant because the sugar on top wasn't even burnt, it was just sprinkled on top... Maybe their blowtorch wasn't working that night?? Also, the consistency was like rubber...

In the photo shown here, I'm enjoying a good breakfast at the Blue Bird Cafe, located in the heart of West Street in Yangshuo... Blue Bird Cafe is one of many cafes which offer approximately the same selection of foods, typically omelettes, pancakes and the like... This place had very good omelettes... They also serve various alcoholic drinks if you want to drop by later in the evening...