Food in Yangshuo
Explore the Chinese cuisine with well known
and less well known recipes and dishes
For many years the food in Yangshuo was
an important reason for travelers to visit the little limestone
mountains gem. One of the reasons is that here the traveler can escape from
the noodle soups and rice. In the 1980's Yangshuo was almost the only place
in China where you could get bread, jam, fried eggs and pizzas.
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The "primitive" days of pizzas made of pancakes are long gone. Nowadays
you can get excellent wood fire pizzas, great brown bread and other western dishes.
The Drifters Cafe and China Cafe have great apple crumble but what about the
Chinese food to get? What are the typical Chinese dishes you can find?
The best deal for Chinese food is Cloud 9. Located
right at the beginning of West Street, this restaurant is considered by both
tourists and local Chinese people as the best restaurant in town.
But what can you eat? What is the food in Yangshuo then? Why are people
so ravish about the food in Yangshuo? Part of the reason is that there is so
much choice. And to stay in business the restaurants have no choice then to
offer the very best they can. And that is what they do. For a selection of
our favorite restaurants, please check
our restaurant and bars section. On this page we will focus on the
dishes itself.
Food in Yangshuo: hand made noodles in Yangshuo
The Chinese cuisine is extensive and we do not even pretend to be able to
offer you the full spectrum of the cooking art in China. Instead we offer a
sneak preview of Chinese cooking. The following pages offer recipes based on
the main ingredient of the dish.
We have the following selection:
Cashew Nut Chicken
The dishes we present in these pages are all available in Yangshuo. While
you travel in China, you will find some areas where you will find some of
the dishes we present her while others are very local specific (think of Kou
Rou or Beerfish). Other dishes originate in other provinces, like Gong Bao
in Sichuan, or Beijing duck in Beijing.
Fish dishes are very popular, either, steamed, fried or in the soup. Most
of the fish is local caught in the Li River or Yulong River. You can catch
your own fish, bring it to your favorite restaurant and ask them to prepare
a nice dish for you.
There are many restaurants in Yangshuo. Many offer decent Chinese food,
especially Malcolm's Cafe China but the best place to experience Chinese food is
still Cloud 9. All the dishes on their menu are included in the excellent
organized cooking classes which are available twice a day. With very experienced
teachers and master chef Linda, this is where you can learn the real deal in
Chinese Cooking.
My friend Cyrille from France with a fish he caught himself
Whatever you are going to do in Yangshuo your journey here will not
complete with an exploration of the Food in Yangshuo. We hope you will enjoy
your meal. And if in case you visit Cloud 9, Cafe China, Drifters or the 7th
Heaven, tell them you read our pages and ask them to make the dish as we
describe on our website. The staff will know what to do!
Fruits in Yangshuo
The whole year through there is great fruit to explore in Yangshuo. From
apples and Chinese pears to more exotic fruits like Kumquats and persimmon.
Plums and grapes are great too. The variety is enormous. That is partly
because the typical tropical fruits are imported from the southern areas
around Nanning, while grapes (though also local grown) and plums come from
more northern areas like Xian.
Local specialties include pomelos and kumquats. But there is more.
See our Yangshuo Fruits page for an
extensive review of the Yangshuo fruits
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