Food
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Cantonese cuisine is one of the four main cuisine in China. It has absorbed
the strong points of other cuisine, diverse and delicate in material. The choice
materials cover a wide range and the seasonings are varied and well coordinated.
The dishes are prepared carefully and exquisitely. Quick-fried or stewed, they
turn out to be fresh, crisp, tender, slippery and not salty with all flavors
and tastes. They varies with the change of seasons, conforming to modern dietetics.
Guangzhou's catering industry ranks first in scale in the country. According
to statistics, there are about ten thousand catering enterprises and restaurants
with some 500,000 seats, of which quite a number are old name restaurants with
a history of more than 100 years or newly-built famous ones. There are numerous
well-known dishes, pastries, snacks and local-flavor food. Dishes renowned at
home and abroad are the Complete Dinner of Manchu and Mandarin Dishes of Guangzhou
Restaurant, The Refreshments Meal of Panxi Restaurant, Fish with Pine Nuts of
Beiyuan Restaurant, Chaozhou Dishes of Nanyuan Restaurant, moon cake with lotus
seed paste of Lian Xiang Lou, Tao Tao Ju Restaurant, stewed shark's fin in brown
sauce of Da Sanyuan Restaurant, Jinpai roast suckling pig of Datong Restaurant,
Dongjiang Kejia dishes of Dingjiang Restaurant, Shanshui Shahe rice starch noodles
of Shahe Restaurant, Qingping chicken of Qingping Restaurant, Beijing and Tianjin
dishes of Huabei (North China) Restaurant, Muslim dishes of Huimin Restaurant
and snake dishes of Man, the Snake King's Restaurant, etc. Most restaurant in
Guangzhou provide three teas, two meals and one night snack. Combining eating
with entertainment, they usually open from 5:00 a.m to 12:00 at night. Some
even provide 24-hour service.
Guangzhou Nanfang Da Sha Co Ltd.
Address : No. 49 Yanjiang Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong
Province, P.R.C.
Guangzhou Merchandise Building
Address : No. 295 Beijing Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P.R.C.
Guangzhou Qian Cun Commodities Building (Closed in 1997)
Address : 602 Renmin Road North, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P.R.C.
Shin Da Shin Department Store
Address : No. 4, Chongshan Wu Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,P.R.C.
Tian Xiang Shopping Centre
Address : Renming North Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P.R.C.
Guangzhou Friendship Store
Address : No. 369 Huanshi East Road, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
Haizhu Shopping Centre of Zuangzhou
Address : Haizhu District of Guangzhou, China.
As one of the fist cities to "open up" to the west, Guangzhou has
long had a vibrant and colorful nightlife. It used to be that visitors to the
city found it threatening and dangerous and the city nightlife centered around
numerous "massage parlors".All this has changed however and, while
the nightlife here doesn't compare with Shanghai or Hong Kong, there are some
good little bars and a great live music scene here. Guangzhou people are also
very raucous! This creates a fun and lively atmosphere in many of the city's
clubs and pubs. The best places to try are around Shamian Island, which is becoming
the most cultured and refined area of the city. For a taste of Guangzhou's famous
Canto pop try the Shui Bian Bar which regularly features live music from throughout
the province.
Guangzhou also has a few good entertainment parks such as Nanhu Park and golf
courses and bowling alleys are dotted about the city.