Seafood restaurants in China
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Ap Lei Chau Market Cooked Food Centre
Sharing a building with a market, six dai pai dong operators cook up a storm in sleepy Ap Lei Chau. Pak Kee (6-11.30pm) and Chu Kee (6pm-midnight) both offer simple but tasty dishes in the $40 to $60 range, and affordable seafood selections. You can also buy seafood from the wet market downstairs and pay them to cook it for you the way you want. Every evening, fishermen and dragon boaters come here for the cheap beer (large bottle $12 to $22) and the food. If you don’t mind plastic stools and alpha males trying to out-talk each other, this is the place to go for local flair. It’s a stone’s throw from the Hung Shing shrine.
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Sea King Garden Restaurant
One of Hong Kong’s most popular seafood venues, the village of Lei Yue Mun has over a dozen seafood restaurants and seafood stalls lining a winding road overlooking the typhoon shelter. Once you’ve settled down in a restaurant, go outside and pick your dinner from one of the stalls with live seafood tanks, making sure you know how much you’re paying and for what. The restaurant will take care of the rest. The more popular restaurants include Lung Mun Seafood Restaurant. The more popular restaurants include Sea King Garden Restaurant.
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Bǐngshèng Restaurant
This exquisite Cantonese restaurant surprises us every time we visit, and the price is right! Shùndé (a town south of Guǎngzhōu) cuisine is the speciality here, where freshwater fish is prepared in many different ways. The dòufuhuā zhēngxiègāo (豆腐花蒸蟹羔; bean curd with crab roe) and hǎilú cìshēn (海鲈剌身; sea bass sashimi) are outstandingly tasty. Also try the cuìpí chāshāo (脆皮叉烧; crispy barbecued pork). It has a handful of branches in town but the newest one in Zhujiang New Town is by far the best. No English menu; grab a Chinese friend to communicate.
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Happy Seafood Restaurant
The innovative seafood dishes here are – would you believe? – the brainchild of a cocky 23-year-old who is the world’s youngest chef to receive a Cordon Bleu medal. Talented Lau Ka-lun is said to have played truant from school at age 11 so he could cook in his mum’s restaurant. Lau’s signature fried rice with crab roe, scallops and ostrich meat ($88) is literally bursting with creativity. He also does wonders with oysters, a Lau Fau Shan speciality.
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Fok Loi Kui Seafood Restaurant
Business is so good here that the owner has to rent extra space nearby to seat his customers. Still, come sundown, there’ll be tables on the sidewalks and SUVs abandoned in the middle of the road by diners eager for the mouth-watering sautéed razor clams in black-bean sauce, the steamed scallops or the fried squid with salt and pepper. There’s no menu. Just point and ask for the price. The owner, Mr ‘Cowboy’ Kee, speaks a little English.
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Le Garcon Chinoise
This lovely old wood-panelled villa down a winding lane off Hengshan Lu is one of Shanghai's most romantic venues. There are actually two restaurants: on the 1st floor the Spanish chef turns out simple, classic tapas, while on the second it's Vietnamese dishes. Try the superb Hanoi fish in tumeric and marinated with fresh herbs comes with glass noodles, the sour fish soup or the chicken with lemongrass. There are non-smoking sections. Reserve.
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Fish Bar
Seafood by the pool is what you get here, and the harbour view is a bonus. The signature jumbo shrimp cocktail with avocado and cocktail sauce (around HK$150) gets you ready for the seasonal selection of imported fish, cooked in your preferred recipes. The oysters are so fresh they shrivel when poked by a fork. Carnivores may still find solace in the freshly grilled rib-eye steak.
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Man Fung Seafood Restaurant
You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly judge a seafood restaurant by its tanks. The live seafood is displayed outside, all seemingly having a good life in what looks like pristine water, until you end it by sending it to the kitchen. Don't be surprised to see your fellow diners diving into basketball-size spider crabs.
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Kam Kau Kee Seafood Restaurant
Chef Kam shops every morning for ingredients to make dishes such as deep-fried soft-bone fish, typhoon shelter tofu and steamed chicken, to make sure that the hikers and divers who frequent his restaurant after a day out will be greeted with wholesome food and cheap beer ($10 per large bottle) in the least pretentious surroundings.
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Chuen Kee Seafood Restaurant
This is the plush new branch of the Michelin-recommended Chuen Kee (53 Hai Pong St; 11am-11pm), the granddaddy of Sai Kung seafood restaurants. The elaborate display of fish and crustaceans at the door may make you cringe, but cringe will turn to crave once you’ve had a bite of the cooked versions.
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Guizhou Long Seafood
This place is positively palatial (seriously, there's a huge staircase just inside the entrance like something out of Gone with the Wind) and has a huge array of seafood dishes to choose from. There's no English menu, but the bible-sized Chinese one is loaded with pictures to guide your choices.
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Lung Yue Restaurant
One of Hong Kong’s most popular seafood venues, the village of Lei Yue Mun has over a dozen seafood restaurants and seafood stalls lining a winding road overlooking the typhoon shelter. Lung Yue Restaurant is one of the more popular restautants. It is open from around noon to 11pm.
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Lung Mun Seafood Restaurant
One of Hong Kong’s most popular seafood venues, the village of Lei Yue Mun has over a dozen seafood restaurants and seafood stalls lining a winding road overlooking the typhoon shelter. The more popular restaurant is Lung Mun Seafood Restaurant. It is open from around noon to 11pm.
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Lamcombe Seafood Restaurant
Lamcombe has been serving up tasty fried squid and steamed scallops on the half-shell for over 10 years. Though slightly pricier than similar establishments nearby, portions are big and the location is more rustic. Vegetarians will love the eggplant and tofu hotpot.
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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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Beira Rio Wine Bar & Grill
Along the foodie waterfront of this Island East neighbourhood, this restaurant looks the classiest and the food is reliable. Kick back with a glass of chilled white wine and a seafood mountain (around HK$270, good for two) and there should be no complaints.
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Star Seafood Restaurant
A cement building shaped like a giant boat, this is your quintessential tourist restaurant. The food might not be the best you've had, but the experience would certainly be one of a kind.
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Tiāntiān Yúgǎng
Choose your meal from the many sea creatures swimming in the tanks at this upscale seafood restaurant. Most dishes are set out in refrigerated levels for you to choose, making this a rare easy seafood-eating experience in China.
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New Hon Kee
This seafood restaurant, popular with islanders and visitors alike, is a short walk northeast of the ferry pier on the way to Tin Hau temple.
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Tak Chai Kee
At this family-run eatery, you can munch on fresh, affordable seafood (from $55) while being entertained by the felines-in-residence.
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Xiao Yu Shan
The giant Xiao Yu Shan is always jammed with people cracking open crayfish and shrimp.
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Yúfū Mǎtóu Shāokǎo
A friendly, fun, three-floor restaurant with a nautical theme. The seafood platter (Y118) arrives in a boat-shaped dish and satisfies two or three people easily. Plenty of meat is available, plus hotpot, and some very filling and cheap noodle and vegie dishes with an emphasis on spice. There's also a proper bar where you can sip a Harbin beer. Picture menu available.
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Bǎolóng Hǎixiān Chéng
Enter the special seafood-filled room by the entrance where the squirming, crawling and swimming creatures are on display. Vegie and cold dishes have marked prices per serve. Seafood is charged by jīn and weighed in front of you. Order what you want and the kitchen will cook it up. Beer is only Y2. Limited English spoken.
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Sam Ka Tsuen Seafood Precinct
The ‘village’ of Lei Yue Mun is one of Hong Kong’s prime seafood venues; around two-dozen fish restaurants line narrow, winding Lei Yue Mun Praya Rd overlooking the typhoon shelter. The area is a colourful and lively place to dine by the water at night and is always busy. To get here from the Yau Tong MTR station, use exit A2 and follow Cha Kwo Ling Rd and Shung Shun St south for 15 minutes or catch green minibus 24M from outside the station. Bus 14C links the Yau Tong Centre halfway down the hill with the Kwun Tong MTR station.
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