Eat in Guangzhou---Guangzhou Food Map

During countless lonely days, I once wandered around Tianhe City, Nonglinxia Road, and Beijing Road, visiting one house after another. In the smell of fish eggs and grilled squid, I filled the gap between material and spiritual things. gap in between. When you are tired from walking, go to an inconspicuous tea restaurant on a street corner and have a bowl of preserved egg, lean meat porridge or ginkgo porridge, and your life will suddenly become wonderful. Guangzhou is a place where food and clothing are satisfying. In Beijing, I had to buy expensive and ugly clothes, spend several times more money than in Guangzhou, and often complain. As for porridge, I once had it in a very high-end restaurant, but it never tasted good after drinking it.

I am used to drinking morning tea, eating desserts, and eating late night snacks. In short, I am used to the food life in Guangzhou. I think such food is rare and such a life is happy.

Guangzhou 8:00 Good morning, dim sum

I remember a scholar said that although dim sum was not invented by Cantonese, it must be Cantonese who promoted dim sum and passed it on. People from all over the world are Cantonese. I think Cantonese people are so happy. Just for breakfast, they have a wide variety of snacks to choose from. My love for Guangzhou started with morning tea.

Guangzhou Restaurant: Falling in love with barbecued pork buns

Back in the days when it was popular to ask someone to bring jeans and electronic watches from Guangzhou, I heard someone in Beijing humming "Eat in Guangzhou" "The first one", to this day, its status in the world is evident.

To be precise, I had my first morning tea in Guangzhou at the "Chinatown" affiliated to Guangzhou Restaurant on the first floor of the Guangzhou Restaurant's main store. Just like love, the love for food sometimes comes from a moment of enjoyment - I fell in love at first sight with the crispy barbecued pork buns in "Chinatown".

The filling of the barbecued pork buns is still the regular honey barbecued pork, but the outer shell is baked, soft on the bottom and crispy on the top.

Pantang water chestnut cake is made by frying water chestnut cake with brown sugar. The aroma of brown sugar and the refreshing taste of water chestnut are combined into one, which goes well with the saltiness of lettuce and meatball porridge.

Later, I felt that I shouldn’t have ordered the Chee Cheong Fun with XO Sauce. The portion was too big, and the XO Sauce with dried shrimps didn’t quite taste like it. There was quite a bit left over, which seemed like a waste. .

Tao Taoju: Exquisite Beef Offal

Guangzhou’s offal is definitely a street snack. Although it is widely circulated, it always feels difficult to reach the level of elegance. However, I had a delicious offal at Taotaoju, a time-honored restaurant.

The production of beef offal requires "Thirteen Incense" as the main brine spice. Including fennel, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, tangerine peel, sand ginger, cardamom, etc.

Beef miscellaneous include beef tripe (all four tripes of cows can be used in dishes, but honeycomb tripe is the most delicious), beef bladder, beef intestines, beef liver and beef lungs, etc. Taotaoju's beef offal only uses tripe, mostly honeycomb tripe, and adds a few radish, which is quite affordable (unlike the beef offal in many street shops, which only see radish and no offal).

The pan-fried corn cakes reminded me of being flattened, and the fried shrimp dumplings had the same chewy dough, the same meat fillings and shrimps, but the difference was that a little more corn was added. The smell of corn.

Address: No. 20, Shifu Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou

Drinking morning tea every day is when I am happiest and most distressed. I'm happy that my day's food journey has begun, but I'm troubled that I can't have all kinds of delicious food at the same time - after all, I only have one mouth and one stomach. So I choose something unique and classic every day: either raw porridge, crab buns, steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce, or egg tarts, carrot cakes, and purple-gold steamed chicken feet. Usually, each morning tea snack is two to three. Use what you can and don’t waste it! , Noodle Pocket is in the north mid.

12:00 noon in Guangzhou, eat efficiently

From the time and content of lunch for Guangzhou people, I have learned about their fast pace of life. The lunch location is usually chosen near the company; if it is not a business banquet, the lunch time is usually about half an hour, and it is mostly a fried rice or a rice noodles.

Macao Street: Portuguese-style working meals

Living in the Tianhe business district, I was more or less influenced by the surrounding office workers and tried to eat as efficiently as possible. , from ordering to eating.

Macau Street uses a Portuguese decoration style, with yellow and purple as the main colors. The yellow walls, green and purple tablecloths, and broken porcelain shards on the wall of the bar make it feel like you are in Southern Europe. seaside. But except for Mian Dou, no one seemed to have the time to take care of this. Everyone was seriously engrossed in their lunch, and occasionally there were a few tables chatting and laughing about business. Mian Dou also sat there very seriously, seriously thinking about which special dishes to order.

Portuguese cuisine, to put it simply, is generally based on seafood, cooked with local white wine and olive oil. Therefore, when you go to Macau Street, you must try the Portuguese oysters from Australia. This oyster is flown from Australia. The oyster is paired with thick potato puree, making the oyster even fresher. In addition, there are Portuguese-style roasted suckling pig and Macau’s signature African chicken.

For staple food, choose Ma Jiexiu fried rice. Ma Jiexiu is dried cod, which is salted fish from Portugal, so it tastes a bit like Cantonese salted fish and chicken fried rice.

Address: No. 138, Tianhe Tiyu East Road, Guangzhou, first floor of Goldlion Building

Guangzhou 15:00 PM, honey on your lips

It’s tea time! In Guangzhou, I can finally put aside my worries, forget about losing weight, and eat desserts with confidence.

The long-established Renxin Milk Store: Eat milk firmly

There are many branches of "Renxin", which can be found everywhere, and most of them are in prosperous areas. However, the old Xiguan store "Nanxin", one of the "Three Specialties", is rare to see. The food of the two restaurants is exactly the same, and the founders are both from Shunde.

The so-called double skin milk is actually made from high-quality and heavy-fat buffalo milk. After preparation, the milk surface is solidified with two thin layers of milk skin. Special attention is paid to the heat when making double-skin milk. The skin of the double-skin milk is as smooth as a mirror and feels like an ice rink.

What Mian Dou wants is red bean double skin milk. Spread the red beans and gently peel off the milk skin on the top layer. You can see it swaying in the spoon, just like jelly pudding. I couldn't help it anymore and took a big bite. As soon as I take it in my mouth, I just feel that it is smooth and delicate, with a sweet taste and a strong aroma. I turn it over and over in my mouth, unable to stop, and it melts in my mouth.

For the second time, Mian Dou ordered double skin milk with ice cream. The double skin milk was also like jelly, which was cool and more refreshing.

Address: No. 180, Taikang Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

Liuhua Porridge City: sweet to the core

“A hint of breeze, a little bit of lake light, and a fragrance from ten miles away— "This is the porridge product of Liuhua Porridge City." This passage in the introduction of Liuhua Porridge City gives the white porridge and noodles a poetic and picturesque flavor without feeling pretentious.

Porridge City is famous for its first "independent porridge nest". It uses delicious porridge as the base and puts in a variety of fresh raw ingredients for cooking. It is unique and innovative, and is served with Teochew cold side dishes. , is a light afternoon snack.

It made me miss the desserts, so I ordered an American ginseng and longan cake, a leisha soup ball king, and finally added a turtle cake.

American ginseng and longan cake is a bit like the Shibenzai cake on the street. It just adds American ginseng slices and longan meat. The ginseng taste is very strong, so it should be a nutritious dessert.

I am full of praise for the Lesha Tang Wanhuang. In fact, they are black sesame glutinous rice soup balls, covered with a layer of peanut powder with granulated sugar, but I think it is extremely delicious - the glutinous rice noodles are so delicate and the black sesame seeds are so sweet.

Guiling cake has always been my favorite dessert. It is Mian Dou’s habit to only add condensed milk without adding honey. Every time I eat Guiling Cake, Mian Dou will think of the idiom - after all the hardships, happiness comes.

Address: I want to try every dessert in Liuhua Park, Renmin North Road, Guangzhou. Ginger milk, lotus seed sago, hand-ground sesame paste, mango pearls, papaya stewed with fresh milk. From this moment on, Mian Dou’s dream is to open a Cantonese-style dessert shop in Beijing so that he and his friends can eat it at any time. A sweet, nutritious and delicious dessert.

Guangzhou 19:00 dinner, seafood is the main thing

Things are rare and expensive. Living in Beijing, I have a preference for seafood, and I knew that the chefs in Guangzhou are good at cooking seafood. . On the second day after arriving in Guangzhou, I couldn’t wait to get into a seafood restaurant.

Dongjiang Yidu Bird's Nest and Shark's Fin Restaurant: Big Deals and Good Taste

When I chose to get into this seafood restaurant, I didn't know how skilled the chefs here were, just because the restaurant was very large. It's big, and there are two super beautiful sports cars parked at the door (Mian Dou admits that this is the main reason). Fortunately, it turned out later that the seafood dishes here are indeed delicious, otherwise Mian Dou would be ashamed of not living up to the expectations of his friends.

The stew I ordered was a clear soup with snow and vegetable gallbladder, which cost 28 yuan per person. Judging from the colloid content, it was indeed a good soup, and the ingredients used in the soup were also very good.

As for seafood, I ordered Dingdian Shrimp Mushroom, which is what Beijingers call Pipi Shrimp, which is super large. The recipe is Maggi; Ruyi Bei, 38 yuan per pound, with minced garlic and vermicelli. Steamed together, it was very fresh; there was also red shank, which was fried and sealed - the fish was first fried in oil on both sides, then poured with sweet and sour sauce to cook it, and then served in the pot, which gave it a northern taste.

I heard from the diners next to me that the two super beautiful sports cars parked at the door were prizes in the restaurant’s lottery. In order to attract guests to dine, the boss promised that within a certain period of time, only those who accumulated a certain amount of consumption would be rewarded. Participate in the lottery, I wonder who is so lucky. If you have the opportunity to dine at this restaurant, you can at least feast your eyes on it.

Address: No. 2 Qiaoguang Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou

New Nanhai City Seafood Restaurant: Delicious food requires creativity

The creativity of the restaurant can be seen on the menu . The dim sum section on the menu is called "Guiding Jiangshan", while the roasted meat section is called "Shaoao Jianghu".

When I turned my attention from the menu to the seafood stall, I decided to order a piece of Arctic clam sashimi. The type was not special, but the Arctic clam was very fresh. For the big red crab king I chose, I decided to use cheese?h. The best thing is the salt-and-pepper premium water snake, with plump meat and crispy skin.

Address: No. 134 Jiangnan Avenue Middle, Haizhu District, Guangzhou

When I asked a taxi driver in Guangzhou about a good place to eat seafood, the driver said: "Guangzhou people basically don't pick places. "Every restaurant is similar." But later I found out that early Guangzhou people liked to go to Saigon Food Street in Dashatou because there were few restaurants at that time and there were a number of seafood restaurants there. Nowadays, when people in Guangzhou have gatherings, they like to go to the Huangsha Seafood Market at No. 21 Huangsha Avenue. The restaurants here can take diners to the seafood market to choose their own seafood, but the processing fee is not cheap.

It falls at 23:00 in Guangzhou, and the fragrance is wafting "the night is still young"

Guangzhou is a city that never sleeps! At 11 o'clock every night, the streets of Guangzhou are still crowded. In the first few days, the bustling scene on the streets made me lose my original concept of time.

Rose Garden: Late Night Snack by the River

Actually, the late night snack we had in the Rose Garden was Mian Dou’s first meal in Guangzhou, and it was also a great meal for Mian Dou. Made a good first impression.

The weather was not very cold, so I put on a coat and sat by the river. While I was waiting for pork ribs with black bean sauce, bamboo tube rice and hot milk tea, I discovered the Baietan style bar street across the river. I was fascinated by it. I said to myself, tomorrow, I must go to that brightly lit place to see it.

There are a lot of ribs in the bamboo tube rice, and the flavor of black bean sauce is also very strong. Drinking hot milk tea, I watched others eating fried snails and drinking beer. I didn't feel that I was any different from others. Who said you must drink beer for a late-night snack, and who said you can't have a set meal for a late-night snack? This is Guangzhou!

Address: Shamian Park, No. 3, Shamian South Street, Guangzhou

Zhiyuanju Restaurant: The days of making side stoves

This is what I ate in Guangzhou The only time I had a side stove - Qingyuan Chicken Coop. Guangzhou people like to call "clay pot" "clay nest". Although I find it strange, I still follow the local customs.

If you are two people, just ordering a Qingyuan chicken nest for 48 yuan is enough, or you may prefer a mutton nest or a donkey meat nest. In any case, one nest is enough, because it comes with a basket of vegetables. , at most, order another tofu, drink San Miguel beer (the beer preferred by Guangzhou people), sit on the bar street, watch the dancers and singers in several bars, and watch the people wearing uniforms and hats. The security guards of Leimao were walking around and watching the cars coming from the other side of the river. I felt very happy because the wish I made yesterday - "Go and see that brightly lit place" - came true today. .

Address: B08, Baietan Style Bar Street, Changdi Road, Fangcun, Guangzhou, where late-night snacks are available everywhere in Yangcheng, at the junction of Wende Road and Wenming Road, Huifu East Road (Beijing Road section), Jiangnan West Road ( Qingzhu Street intersection) and Shipai East are both good.

Address: No. 2, Wenchang South Road, Liwan District, Guangzhou