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Bar 98
All-day breakfasts, veggie burgers, salads and pizzas, no-nonsense ambience and pool table.
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Drifter's
Does a good morning cuppa and serves Indonesian coffee, otherwise largely indistinguishable from other cafés along Xi Jie.
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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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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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Le Vôtre
With its impressive interior (part of the Jiangxi Guildhall) flanked by a dazzling array of Buddhist bodhisattva statues (including a suitably portly Milefo and a large effigy of Guanyin) and hung with portraits of the Marx brothers (Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai), this is Yángshuò's sole French restaurant.
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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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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 café. 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. Short/tall cappuccino, short/tall caffe mocha, iced coffees and waffles. Peaceful mezzanine floor upstairs.
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Night Market
A massive night market gets going across from the bus station. With tents, tables and chairs you can settle in for a sampling of local delicacies such as tiánluóniàng (stuffed field snails) whatever the weather. Useful stalls set up during the day across from the bus station on the forecourt in front of Yangshuo Park, selling beer fish (啤酒鱼; píjiǔ yú), málàtàng (麻辣烫; spicy soup) and clumps of fruit. If you are looking for Chinese restaurants, you can find a cluster at the west end of Xi Jie.
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Pure Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant
Aimed squarely at the wealthier tourist bracket with semipicturesque views from the terrace at the rear. Pricy Buddhist vegetarian dishes, including Lo Han Zhai and braised vegetable balls.
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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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