Restaurants in Guǎngxī
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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.
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Pure Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant
If you've just been taking photos of dogs being skinned in the night market, this is the place to come to repair your damaged karma. Buddhist music creates an enchanting atmosphere in which to delve into Lotus' sumptuous menu. The tomatoes stuffed with tofu, potatoes and mushrooms (Y28) come highly recommended. There's a cute little terrace out back.
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Aunt
Take a pew in this cavernous dining hall and a waitress (some English-speaking) will hand you a card; convey it to the counter of your choice, point and choose from the arranged dishes and your choice goes down on the card - couldn't be simpler. A cornucopia of Chinese and Asian dishes is on view, from roti prata to scrummy tāng bāo(汤包), lamb kebabs (羊肉串; yángròu chuàn), local Lijiang mussels, stewed carp (烧鲤鱼; shāo lǐyú), lashings of jiǎozi and fiery bowls of dan dan noodles (担担面; dàndan miàn).
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Nengren Vegetarian Restaurant
Fantabulous veggie dishes cooked up within chanting range of the main hall of the Nengren Buddhist Temple on the corner of Xinyi Lu and Lijun Lu. Let the vast menu (Chinese only) take your tastebuds to Nirvana and sample the Nengren vegetable dumplings (能仁斋饺子; néngrén zhāi jiǎozi), the ample curry mock beef noodles (咖喱素牛肉面; gālí sù niúròu miàn) or the straightforward traditional vegetable noodles (传统素面; chuántǒng sùmiàn).
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Guìlín Rén
Cheap set local meals at this ever-popular and handy restaurant designed with a fast-food, no-nonsense approach. Orange-and-white-clad employees even go through motivational songs to boost morale and foster team spirit. There's no English menu, but dishes include three-flavours hotpot (三鲜火锅; sānxiān Huǒguō) and black pepper beef with rice (黑椒牛柳砂钵饭; hēijiāo niúliǔ shābō fàn). Instant coffee served.
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Àomén Shíjiē
Just along from the Xinhua bookstore, this gigantic dining hall is lined with hatches where you order your dish, a waitress in tow while you make your choice. There's no English menu, but the wall-mounted photo menu makes ordering a piece of cake. Try the peppery mápó dòufu (spicy tofu with crumbs of pork) or the more straightforward gōngbào jīdīng fàn (spicy chicken chunks with rice) or the tasty méicài kōuròu bāo (pork with cabbage).
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Tianhong Northeast Jiaozi Restaurant
There's no English menu at this industrious dumpling restaurant, but don't let that deter you from trying its scrummy jiǎozi. Standard dishes include the vegetable jiǎozi (sūbáicài xiàn), there's also a chive and egg version (jiǔcài jīdàn), the lamb and onion (yángròu dàcōng xiàn) and, if you still have an appetite, further standard dishes from China's northeast fill out the menu.
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Běijīng Jiǎoziwáng
For a much-needed dumpling fix, come here for platefuls of dumplings in all shades from lamb (羊肉饺子; yángròu jiǎozi; 20/jīn), to mushroom (香菇饺子; xiānggū jiǎozi;/jīn), pork and chives (猪肉韭菜饺子; zhūròu jiǔcài jiǎozi;/jīn) and beyond.
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Red Star Express
Top pizzas from this eatery newly relocated from its old haunt on Xi Jie. Splash on the Tabasco, line up a Corona or three and sit back to enjoy some wholesome ingredients. For herbivores there's the vegetarian pizza, while the default option for carnivores is most likely the chilli beef pizza. The menu continues on into burger, burrito and sandwich territory. If you need to sleep off your pizza, upstairs doubles (with shower and air-con) are available.
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Farmers Trading Market
On Pantao Lu through the archway, this place is open all day and late into the evenings. Píjiǔyú (beer fish) is Yángshuò's most famous dish and in fact this may be the best budget place to buy it. Local Li River fish are cooked up with chillies, spring onion, tomato, ginger and beer. You can find all sorts of stuff here, but you may have to put up with the sight of dogs being skinned, so be prepared.
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Meiyou Café
With one of the longest lineages in Yángshuò - which says something at the very least - the Meiyou concocts Western traveller fare and a smattering of Chinese dishes, plus a range of coffees (Blue Mountain coffee, Kaihua etc) and not bad breakfasts. The sign outside saying 'Meiyou Pay FEC' ('No FEC') puts its history in context - FEC (Foreign Exchange Certificates) became extinct in the mid-1990s.
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Ming Yuan
If the constant bustle of Yángshuò gets too much, creep into this small cafe. The downstairs tables are a bit cramped, but it's still a quiet slice of civilisation and the cream of the crop for coffee, with a rich range of blends including some more obscure offerings. It recently opened a bigger, elegantly decoratedbranch adjacent to River View Hotel.
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MC Blues
Whether it's an early-morning big breakfast or an evening dose of music and chinwagging, this remains one of Yángshuò's most popular. The MC Blues Breakfast is a serious mouthful: two fried eggs, two slices of toast, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, chips, coffee and juice. The long and lengthy cocktail list runs to grasshopper; nights draw garrulous crowds.
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Rosemary Café
For honest and homely charms, this popular café is a warm beacon to disorientated visitors, with an extensive, heart-warming menu of travellers' favourites and a nightly flock of expat regulars. The Western menu runs dependably to tasty tomato soup, shepherd's pie, pizza, fish and chips and beyond. Recommended by travellers.
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Le Vôtre
The first French restaurant in town, and still the best. This one shares its historic premises with the Hóngfú Palace Hotel. The interior, flanked by a dazzling array of Christian and Buddhist statues and hung with portraits of Chairman Mao, oozes an eccentric charm. The huge outdoor seating area draws big crowds, as do the fine menu and home-brewed beer (from Y25).
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Green Lotus Café
Its walls covered with the drunken scrawls of travellers, early morning hangovers get soothed back to normality by soft jazz music. For specialist tastes there's a very brief Israeli menu, otherwise it's standard breakfast fare with freshly squeezed orange juice and local specialities such as beer fish.
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Inaka Japanese Restaurant
Micro-sized, neat and tidy eatery with conveyor-belt sushi creeping past the young and cosmopolitan well-fed of Guìlín; dishes discounted after 21:30. It's a short walk along from Rosemary Café in the middle of Yiren Lu at the end of the block of stalls.
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Seafood Market
In the northern section of Yunnan Lu, close to the wharf is Běihǎi's large seafood market . This is the place to come if you need to get your hands on dried squid or any other seafood. Buses 2 and 8 from in front of the bus station pass by the market.
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Dexing Restaurant
Ensconced on the south side of Beibuwan Sq, this huge restaurant is the place for the full-on Chinese dining experience, as it's packed by 09:00 by punters crowding in to hoover up dim sum (点心; diǎnxīn) and other Cantonese favourites.
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Coffee Garden
If you need a pleasant alternative to the seafood restaurants, this smart restaurant has views over the hotel swimming pool to the Beibu Gulf, polite staff and a menu that embraces Wild Mushroom Soup, American Beefburger and other popular Western fare.
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Shaoshanchong Xiang Restaurant
For sheer OTT novelty and dubious tastefulness, check out this nostalgic Húnán restaurant where signature chili-infused dishes from the home province of Chairman Mao are delivered by gaggles of cheeky, pig-tailed girls in Red Guard uniforms.
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Bǎiwèi Dumpling Restaurant
This pocket-sized restaurant in an alley just off Yiren Lu is a dumpling lover's heaven. The minimum order is 20 pieces (Y0.30 to Y0.40 per piece). English menu now available.
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Muslim Restaurant
Popular and good value eatery specialising in Chinese Muslim cuisine with a useful English menu.
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Zhèngyáng Tāngchéng
Easily one of the most popular soup restaurants in the city serving local specialities. The alfresco dining area is a prime people-watching spot. We especially recommend the grilled Lí River fish and soup with sea bass and chrysanthemum.
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Bar 98
All-day breakfasts, veggie burgers, salads and pizzas, no-nonsense ambience and pool table.
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