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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.

hand made noodles in yangshuo
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
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 Yangshuoyangshuo fruit

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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Cloud 9

There is not one restaurant in Yangshuo that matches Cloud 9. Not only the food is superior to other restaurants, the atmosphere is also very special.

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It is in Cloud 9 where you start learning how good the Chinese cuisine really is.

Cloud 9


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Chinese vegetarian cooking

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Cooking Class in Yangshuo

Learn to cook the Chinese way. Linda Liang has set up two kitchens on the roof of her Cloud 9 restaurant. All the dishes on the menu of Cloud 9 are on the list of the cooking class.

Learn to cook like the masters, learn to cook like Linda does.

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Yangshuo fruits

Yangshuo and Guilin have their own specific fruits for you to explore. And it worth to give some of these fruits a try. Plums, grapes, oranges or watermelon are well known, but try the persimmon or Kumquats or cumquats if you can find them. They are worth a try.

Fruit in Yangshuo


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