Gyangze Restaurants

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Walking down the street through the market area, this man kept following us saying he owned the best rerstaurant in Gyantse and we should come for dinner. Being our first and only night in town we took him up on it.

The restaurant is really nothing special from the outside and for that matter from the inside as well. There are many note books that foreign travelers sign writing how good the food is and the chef is quick to bring them out and show them to you. What ever you order the chef invites you into the kitchen so you can watch him flame broil in a wok. Flames shoot up about five feet! Impressive but looks dangerous. The food was average but the show with the fire was worth the visit.

A side note about the bathroom situation. To get to the bathroom you have to walk through the kitchen, past the flame throwing chef into the back alley. Walk up a flight of stairs to a cement open air patio with three slits cut out of the floor. This is the toilet. And that's right, everything falls into the alley below.

Warning: five out of the six of us drank this herbal tea. looked like just alot of different flowers in hot water. All five of us were sick that night. The one that did not drink this was not sick. stay away from the tea.