Luoyang Restaurants

Forget about the travel warning saying yuo will almost die if you buy off the street...I guess i have a triple-coated stomach because i went as far as buying the meat sticks and the baked bananas from street vendors. Here's a pic of a back alley' restaurants that i discovered just following people at lunch time. For less than 2$ you get more food than you can eat. Only thing is, if it rains like it did the day I took that picture, you better not be in a rush to go home...!

En los puestos de las calles puedes ver y luego probar los noodles que hacen delante de ti y luego los cuecen
Es todo un arte


In the the streets stalls you may see, and then try the noodles that are made in front of you and then boiled
It's an art

Decidimos darnos un homenaje y tomarnos un Pato laqueado .
El restaurante está muy bien , con muy buen servicio y un pato sensacional

We decided to give a tribute to us and take a Roast Duck .
The restaurant is very good, with very good service and a sensational duck

There are lots of popular and apparently good restaurants in the center of Luoyang. Although the dinning rooms on street level were full they often have second floor dinning rooms available. So when you see a good looking place that looks full go in anyway. Just because these look like and are higher class places do not expect menus in pinying or even menus with pictures.

As Elyse, VT Chinese member extraordinaire, discovered on her trip to Luoyan experiencing the famous "water meal" of Luoyang can be a challenge for a single traveler even if they speak Chinese. It seemed to me that the restaurants I entered were as disconcerted by the fact that I was a single dinner, as by the fact that I could not communicate effectively in Chinese.

People both employees and guests were very friendly and helpful. In contrast to the sometimes impersonal, almost sullen service I experienced in Beijing, this was great dining even though I did not really know what I ordered.

Favorite Dish: I think my favorite dishes were vegetarian, but I certainly could not give any names. Everything was so fresh and tasty and generally so much more to my taste than Chinese food I have eaten in the USA. (Being originally from the San Francisco area I thought I knew Chinese food.)

This restaurant serves Shanghai style food, and they do it good. :-) The waitresses are really friendly and fast. We were in a separate room, but these rooms are not totally separated from the rest of the restaurant, so you still get the atmosphere.

Another place where you can have coffee. They had a lot of different coffees on the menu, but it turned out that they only had a couple of them in stock. But the one we drank was good, and the waitresses were really friendly. It was quite expensive though. We paid 38 yuan (almost 4 euro) for a cup.

Dio Coffee is not really special actually. When we were there (a Sunday morning) the place was almost empty, and the service was quite lame. BUT: they have coffee, so I didn’t care about anything else. Later we went to Beverly coffee, which is very close, and found out that Dio is not as nice as Beverly.

(Funny thing: in the top of the menu it said Belgium coffee, but the choices were e.g. Colombian and Brazilian coffee. Didn’t quite understand this.)

If you want to have a quick lunch, the restaurant in the New Jianlong Hotel is a good place to go. We had a couple of small dishes and each a big bowl of noodles, and paid 68 yuan in total for 5 persons.