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Guìlín Restaurants

Yiyuan Restaurant

2 reviews | Write a review

Good for: Budget Travellers, service

Not good for: atmosphere, food

  • Address
    • Nanhuan Lu 南环路
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 0773 282 0470
  • Hours
    • 11:30-14:30 & 17:30-21:30

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Lonely Planet review for Yiyuan Restaurant

This outstanding, inexpensive Sichuanese restaurant on Nanhuan Lu has a tasteful all-wood exterior and an English menu. The owner imports all her spices from Sìchuān and you can taste the difference. Try the stir-fried eel with dried chilli and Sichuan spices.

 

Traveller reviews for Yiyuan Restaurant (2)

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    Got Poisoned

    okgago recommends this,

    Me and my girlfriend, we went to Yi Yuan Restaurant today (19-Sep-2009), after reading many recommendations about this place (also here in Lonely Planet).

    First thing to be noticed is the label of the restaurant: it says "Lonely Planet Yi Yuan Restaurant". We had also seen such labels in Pingyao. Must be a common thing in China.

    The place was busy with mainly local people. The atmosphere was not "outstanding" at all. You could even find the gas cylinders near the tables, ready to be used for the famous "hot-pot" dish.

    We ordered Mushroom Soup, Eggplant a la Sichuan, Braised Fish, Traditional Smoked Duck, and Osmanthus Tea. Actually all of them tasted quite good. And we paid 120 yuans (around 18USD), which was a great price.

    However, 30 minutes after we went out, both me and my girlfriend had a sudden stomach ache and we had to run to the toilet in a shopping mall. So I think we got poisoned either from the duck or from the fish.

    So I suggest you to think twice before going there.

    Good for: Budget Travellers, service

    Not good for: atmosphere

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    Not Impressed

    china_boy recommends this,

    I just got back from eating dinner at the Yiyuan Restaurant. Despite all the hype (from Lonely Planet... and other sources), I was not impressed. Tonight, I had the sweet and sour fish slices, the dan dan noodles, and a pot of Osthamus tea (a special flower native to Guilin). Altogether my bill was 38 yuan (about $5.60 US dollars).

    The waitress told me that the sweet and sour fish slices didn't have bones (that was part of her selling point), but that was not the case at all. I must have waded through 40-50 small bones in the 15-20 flsh slices on my plate. Not exactly what I hoped for (or expected). The flavor of the sauce also wasn't much to rave about - pretty standard sweet and sour, not much different from what I have tasted in the U.S.

    The dan dan noodles were actually pretty good. They only cost 4 yuan, but that was for a pretty small bowl of noodles. The noodles were tender, the sauce was spicy and included peanuts and chives. These were the best part of the meal.

    The Osthamus tea was also so-so. There wasn't much flavor to it and there were plenty of small little 'floaties' to sift through (or rather, to spit out).

    All in all, I was fairly disappointed by the Yiyuan Restaurant. The place was pretty dead when I arrived (about 7:30 or 8:00pm)-- there were two tables with Chinese people at them eating hot pot and two other tables of foreigners.

    Maybe I had a fluke experience, but I think all the excitement about the Yiyuan Restaurant should be tempered. Yesterday, I asked some locals for a good restaurant to eat "pijiu yu" (beer fish) and they recommended a wonderful place within a shopping mall. The ambiance was not the greatest, but the food was superb (and cheaper than the Yiyuan Restaurant)! I wish I would have gone there (or somewhere else) for dinner tonight.

    Not good for: food

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