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Quan Ju De (Peking Duck) Beijing
60 Reviews I recently visited the Quanjude restaurant at Wangfujing in Beijing. This was the best Peking duck that I have had - the ambience was nice and the prices reasonable. A must do experience in Beijing!...
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Cloud 9 Sky Lounge Shanghai
10 Reviews Cloud 9 is located at the 87th floor of Grand Hyatt Shanghai. It is a great place to enjoy the skycrapers at Pudong area with a seat enjoying the music and the drink. Although the drink is quite...
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Guangzhou Restaurant Guangzhou
14 Reviews Hooley's Great place to hangout with live music! good price during happy hour for the beer! :P located in ( 珠江新城） Zhu jiang new town Paulaner a german famous...
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Muslim Quarters Xi'an
20 Reviews An unique experience. Each customer will be given two pieces of hard bread and an empty bowl. You tear the bread into small pieces and place them into the bowl. Then you bring the bowl to the kitchen...
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Beijing Da Dong Roast Duck Beijing
11 Reviews After a tiring day of walking around in Beijing, the time had come to indulge ourselves in local cuisine and we chose Dadong to tantalise our taste buds. This elegant restaurant offers one of the most...
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Street Food Shanghai
18 Reviews you can buy drinks and refreshment and even eat streetfoods or a full meal at the food court. this food court cum street stall is just located across the street facing Oriental TV Tower and my...
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Sea Port Restrurant Guangzhou
1 Review The quality and taste of the food are extremely good: I have tried many Cantoness restaurants before but none of them able to peer this one. Services there are impressive: waitresses are well dressed...
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De Fa Zhang Jiaozi Shop Xi'an
12 Reviews Personally I think it is way too expensive. Anyway it is nice to try it once and tell the world that I have tried the dumpling banquet in Xian. We have the dumpling downstairs where the locals eat...
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McDonald's Beijing
10 Reviews Man, China is a Blast for Eastern foods, but sometimes the crave for the beauty of good ol' western Maccas take over you. Its a good break, and a quick option. for people from english speaking...
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Nanxiang Mantou Dian Shanghai
15 Reviews dont forget to reserve, it's hard to get a table in there...the dumplings are outstanding, you will not find better ones. also, you can watch them being made by hand...don't miss it. on the upper...
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Jia San Xi'an
5 Reviews Of all numerous snacks of Xi'an, my favourite is steamed soup stuffed bun. It's soooo delicious, and, it's so cheap. The waiters are skilled. They can carry heaps of steamed buns which are piled like...
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Hard Rock Cafe Beijing Beijing
15 Reviews Sadly, this American icon is not know in Beijing for the food or performances. It's known for the Mongolian prostitutes that practically crowd around older men at the bar. Not sure why management...
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Xiao Nan Guo Shanghai
12 Reviews This larger restaurant branch is fantastic with formal dinning, great service, relaxed, clean, tidy, pleasantly decorated with hardly an empty table. If you get yourslf a private room you will have...
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The Tang Dynasty Xi'an
3 Reviews Dumpling is a word that you will hear quite often in China. It applies to small portions of prepared food, with different recipes and tastes. Looking like pastries or cookies they compose a meal...
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Fangshan (Imperial) Beijing
11 Reviews This is supposedly a recreation of the cuisine that was served at the Imperial Court of China. The set-up was interesting -- we went to the one inside Beihai Park and so would give it a thumbs-up...
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M on the Bund Shanghai
11 Reviews I have to say this place isn't bad, but it isn't the best in Shanghai like everyone says. The service is OK, the wine list is extensive and expensive, and the menu is a bit short on the selections. So...
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Friendship Restaurant at Terracotta Museum Xi'an
2 Reviews This was where we ate lunch on the day we visited the Terra Cotta Warriors. It's a huge room filled with tables for tour groups and families. Our guide, Kevin, had been telling us for several days...
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Dong Lai Shun Huo Guo Beijing
6 Reviews Build from 1903, had more than 100 years history. It's Instant-boiled Mutton is traditional and orthodox. very famous in China. all of us looooove it. Instant-boiled Mutton: send the piece of mutton...
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Tandoor Indian Restaurant Shanghai
8 Reviews The interior of the restaurant is good but thats about all that is good. Its well over priced and i was even overcharged for something we did not order so check your bill. You even have to pay for a...
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Sheraton Food Street Xi'an
2 Reviews Green Molly Restaurant & Pub (Gaoxin District) As a foreigner living in Xian for several years, I must say this is easily the best bar in Xian. The basement level pub is decked out with dark wood...
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Pizza Hut Beijing
5 Reviews Pizza Hut - 3rd Floor, APM Mall, Wangfujing street, Beijing - the worst service and rudest staff I have ever encountered at any restaurant in any city or country I have ever been to. The staff are...
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Lu Bo Lang Shanghai
5 Reviews This very famous restaurant was a real pleasure to dine at after a stroll around YuYuan Garden offering many of the local dishes such as the fresh River Fish, Crab, Eel, Lotus Root etc and the...
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Afunti Uighur Restaurant Beijing
7 Reviews I first found out about this place about 6 years ago. I went there again a month ago and found that although the area of the restaurant was the same, they have now packed in many more tables. Afunti...
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Xin Ji Shi / Zin Tian Di Restaurant Shanghai
4 Reviews The ambiance is perfect, truly Shanghai. Even my Shanghainese friend swears that this is still the best local place to eat, at a great location - Xin Tian Di! The Grandmother's Pork is a must have, it...
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Starbucks Beijing
6 Reviews Seen here, my photo of the Starbucks in Beijing, just on the southern edge of Qianhai Lake. Love the traditional Chinese architectural design aesthetic of this Starbucks and I really enjoyed hanging...
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3 stories of eating mayhem :-) but it is quite clean for chinese standards. food is good.good beer selection and free soft drink.best to go with a chinese friend as menu is in chinese. just pig out! :-)it cost me about 120rmb for 2 people.
My restaurant memories in China started somewhere in Beijing and ended in Hong Kong.They are all different.But the most remarkable - besides the famous turning plate- is the way they succeed to give it a personal touch. Music and dances - local dances. No remarks - chinese food is wellknown and tasting better over there.The atmosphere - the food itself - even if it is a copy to please western tourists like Italian RaviolispaghettiCheese-fondue alla Switzerland- Japanese shuzi - it is tasty and perfect grace to he atmosphere !
He or she pretending never tasted chinese food is not living on this planet called "Earth"But this food tastes different in the country of origin. Even the taste from north to south China is different - from sweet to sour over very specie.The way of presenting is a foundest memory -all served on a turning plate - small portions - but a lot of ... and so different in taste . There is a lot of choice - but to be honest - the most famous "DUCK" plate was not my favourite one - I prefered the Chinese Ravioli !!
Beasically you are seated around a table and in the center there is a mini BBQ with coals that are constantly changed throughout your dinner. You order the meats you like and can chooose if you want a cook to cook for you at your table or if you want to do the cooking. Then the waitress/waiter will bring you a variety of sauces and a bowl of big peices of lettuce that you can wrap your meat in and make lettuce wqraps if you want. Its always been a favourite for me while I was in China. Im sure you'll really enjoit if you go! I personally like Chicken or beef with a peanut sauce wraped in lettuce. Dont forget the green tea!
... without knowing Chinese Characters. When you go "Off the beaten Path" in China you'll find, that many restaurants don't have an English menue. Then this two characters are very helpful.If you order "si" the meat will be shredded. "ding" means, the meat comes in dices. This way you have at least a slight idea of what you order. Without "si" or "ding" the meat you order comes with lots of bones. You still don't know, which kind of meat you get, but you can be sure, that most times you'll get chicken or pork. Sometimes you'll get beef. Don't be afraid, that you get dog-meat by accident. This can only happen, if you order the most expensive food on the menue.
China is famous for its green tea. Everybody drinks it all the time. It is healthy and good against almost every disease. The more you drink of the green tea the longer you'll life!!Be sure to have only the best sort and don't boil it, just pour hot water onto the leaves.The best Chinese Tea is said to be grown in Hangzhou.
We enjoyed the Nine Dragons Restaurant near the Nine Dragons Amusement Park up at the reservoir on the way to the Great Wall of China. Luckily we were seated with a Chinese couple from Vancouver (who were originally from Hong Kong). They told us what to eat and what to avoid. The meal was delicious.Do NOT eat at the government run Friendship Restaurants if you can avoid it.
Splurge on a good expensive Peking Duck when in Beijing. The cheap ones can be disappointing. But a good one (up to Y100) is heavenly!How to eat :The Peking Duck is thinly sliced and mostly the crispy skin of the duck is proffered. There are pieces of crepes, some shallots and plum sauce. Spread plum sauce on the crepe, add in the piece of duck or duck skin, shallots and wrap it up and pop into your mouth.
Baozi (steamed meat buns) and jiaozi (steamed dumplings) are cheap and delicious. Most can be found steaming in round bamboo trays in road-side stalls. Eat the jiaozi with vinegar and chilli powder.
Try NOT to visit those restaurants or cafes recommended in the usual guidebooks. Well, they were mostly recommended for Western tourists and usually had menus in English (or at least bad English) for the convenience of Western tourists. But they are also more expensive and not as authentic. The really good food are actually found in many local cheap eateries, hole-in-the-walls down by the market-areas or side-streets. Be brave and point!
Park Plaza Beijing Wangfujing Beijing
5 Reviews and 908 Opinions Well, unbeknownst to me when I booked our stay at the Park Plaza Hotel during the Olympics that it...
Peace Hotel Shanghai Shanghai
12 Reviews and 205 Opinions The Hotel is truely a mixture of ancient and modern decore built in a Gothic Style, it once was...
The Garden Hotel Guangzhou Guangzhou
7 Reviews and 1707 Opinions My friend and I just checked into this hotel. The rooms we received are terrible with stained...
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