Can you give me some recommendations for good restaurants in Beijing: including peking duck, Xian, Hangzhou, and Shanghai:including a good place for cantonese dim sum? We don%26#39;t like really spicy foods but are looking forward to tasting true chinese food. Probably pass on the chicken feet and similar though.
Thanks!
Best restaurants in Beijing, Xian, Hangzhou, and Shanghai?
My pet recommendation in Beijing for Peking duck has closed down, unfortunately. :( For good mid-range restaurants, you might like to try Gui Jie near Yonghegong Lamasery.
For Xi%26#39;an, try the Muslim Quarter for interesting street food.
In Hangzhou, one of my favourite restaurants is actually the Japanese restaurant on Nanshan Lu, beside an Italian cafe! The buffet for 188 RMB/person is delicious and wonderful value, but I guess that%26#39;s not really what you%26#39;re looking for. There%26#39;re quite a number of good mid-range Chinese restaurants serving Hangzhou cuisine on Jinyin Jie, the street north of and parallel to the Qing He Fang, the recreated Song-dynasty street. One of my favourites there is Zhi Wei Guan, the original branch of that is off Yan%26#39;an Lu, closer to the West Lake. If you%26#39;re interested in teahouses, I found a nice and affordable one with a view of the West Lake, near Leifeng Pagoda at the south end of West Lake.
I live in Shanghai so it%26#39;s really hard for me to recommend, I know too many good ones! Some of my favourites are Heaven on Earth (off Nanjing Lu pedestrian street, improved Chinese cuisine with NO MSG) and the Nanxiang xiaolongbao restaurant (in Yuyuan bazaar, go for the innermost section on the 3rd floor, go promptly at 1030 when it opens or risk waiting for 1+ hour); the latter has Shanghainese xiaolongbao and other Shanghainese dimsum. You could also dine for a good price with a view of the Bund in Pudong%26#39;s Super Brand Mall, good restaurants to try there would be Lang Yi Fang (traditional Shanghainese cuisine with some unique Shanghainese dimsum), South Beauty (Shanghainese, Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine) and Ai Wan Ting (pronounced ';I Wanting';!). Hooters is also on the 1st floor of the same building, but then again that might or might not be what you%26#39;re looking for. ;)
Feel free to drop me an email at ellyse99@yahoo.com if you%26#39;d like to meet up for a chat/tea/meal in Shanghai, I%26#39;m studying here. :)
Best restaurants in Beijing, Xian, Hangzhou, and Shanghai?hi, i %26#39;m a local in Xi%26#39;an and i know the best hotels in Xi%26#39;an.
such as Sofit, shagrila golden flower hotel,hiyat hotel.
most of my foerigh customer like Sofit hotel and shagrila golden flower hotel !
Our company have the contract with those hotels and we always give our customer the lower price !
wish the news is useful to you !
Jeff
Thanks for all the info!!
We are staying at the Sofitel in Xian. I%26#39;m glad to hear it%26#39;s a good one.
The Muslim Quarter restaurants In Xian - the side street open ones might be risky for touchy stomaches. Smells fantastic but the skewered meat sits there for quite some time unrefrigerated. And so does the cooked meat. So maybe not up to the level of hygiene that you are accustomed to. If you wouldn%26#39;t eat chicken feet then you may not like that.
Superband mall for views of the Bund. Make your way to the Bund side and up lifts - several resataurants to choose from. South Beauty is a good restaurant that I could recommend - not all of the dishes are spicy. Only catch is that the Superbrand mall is on the Pudong side - so maybe one opportunity to eat there. Xintiandi in Shanghia is another place - but up market dining. Beijing try any of these fantastic places - see http://www.tunglok.com/index1.html. Look under Beijing.
Also Zoes cafe in the Oriental Plaza Beijing. Good for anyone with western cravings. The best coffee in all of China!!! Hands down.
Great pizza and just simple sandwiches, foccaccia etc too. Just a little place but they know what they are doing. It is in the outside Office Tower section, :Sky Avenue. Check out
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for a myriad of dining options in Beijing. My Humble House - absolutely outstanding - is close to Zoes.
in xi%26#39;an ,iplease try the local food and the special jJIAOZI dishes you only can find it in Xi%26#39;an and also see the Tang dynasty perforce show.
please ask me if you have any questions for xi%26#39;an.
and i wish to offer some help to everyone who likes Xi%26#39;an.
Have a nice trip 1
Jeff
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Xiantraveller-I think we do want to avoid the places where the meat has been left out so long. How can you tell a restaurant that would be ';safe'; for touchy stomachs by just looking at it? Can you go by size? Bigger, the safer?
Jeff,
We love jaiozi. You mean the dumplings?
yes, it%26#39;s dumpling.
if possib;le, may i get your mail box?
ii can share some pictures with you !
Jeff
zyq981125@163.com
Sure.
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Thanks!
I don%26#39;t know how by just looking at it - all you can do is go by recommendations - say Lonely Planet or ex pat forums. Hope you have a good trip. It%26#39;s good to see that SOMEONE has been clever by using the forum to ask very specific questions. Hope you will start helping others by the time you come back you will be a mini encyclopaedia!
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