As one of the eight major cuisines, Guangdong cuisine is based on “Fengcheng (Shunde) cuisine”. It then absorbs the essence of Chaozhou cuisine and Hakka cuisine, besides combining with Guangdong’s wide range of raw materials and fresh texture, giving it a fresh yet refreshing taste. The Canton cuisine started late but has a far-reaching impact. Most of the Chinese restaurants around the world are based on Guangzhou cuisine. Guangzhou cuisine is as famous as French cuisine all over the world, therefore many people think that Canton cuisine represents the overseas Chinese cuisine. Canton cuisine is light but not tasteless, fresh but not vulgar, tender but not raw, oily but not greasy. There are sayings of “Five Tastes” (fragrant, crisp, soft, fat, thick) and “Six Flavors” (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, fresh). The seasonal demand is strong, with light taste during summer and autumn while rich taste during winter and spring.

Wen Cai Ge

Wen Cai Ge Guangzhou cuisine restaurant is located next to the Lotus Market. It is an amazing Guangzhou cuisine restaurant.

Shunde raw fish is selected from high quality live fish after boning and peeling then cut into thin slices with special knife. It is served on an ice plate with rich seasoning including pure peanut oil, soy sauce, onion shreds, tender ginger shreds, ginger shreds, shallot shreds, lemon shreds, peanut crumbs, sesame and so on, together with Shunde’s signature thin crisp and allium chinense, which gives it a special taste. The raw fish slices are cut as thin as cicada, each with glittering and translucent appearance that gives you an endless aftertaste.

Squid steamed pork, a dish that you may not even find in Guangzhou, especially such delicious one. The pork is steamed just right with great combination of squid, salted fish and pork in it, which tastes super good.

A recommendation to friends in Beijing, if you want to eat authentic Guangzhou cuisine, you can try this restaurant, but you better come early because there are so many people and you might not get a seat if you are late.

Address: No. 67, West Di’anmen Avenue 地安门西大街67号

You Jing Ge Hong Kong-Style Restaurant

In order to bring authentic Hong Kong cuisine to consumers all over the country, You Jing Ge upholds the principle of “The beauty of cooking lies on the process to the best”. Based on Guangzhou cuisine, it continues to research and develop new dishes while retaining Hong Kong-style flavor. The name of many dishes in the shop have a lot to do with a famous a Hong Kong martial actor Jackie Chan, also known as Big Brother.

Big Brother Red Bean Bun is personally supervised by big brother Jackie Chan. It is a large, half-cut bun with scorched skin sprinkled with sesame and filled of red bean stuffing, which tastes “crispy on the outside and tender on the inside”. As the most popular product of the restaurant, its annual sales volume can reach millions.

French stewed mushroom spring chicken. The white porcelain is covered with a layer of crisp skin, which the waiter will help to cut. The mushroom tastes fresh while the spring chicken has tight meat. The soup tastes like mushroom soup with moderate milky taste. The crisp skin is also quite delicious.

The fried stick of curry seafood fried stick is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, served with Thai yellow curry and mashed sweet potatoes. The slightly spicy curry, sweet mashed sweet potatoes match with fresh sweet taste of seafood to give a rich layers of flavor that directly hit the taste buds.

Address: Opposite to No. 12 Stand, Workers Stadium, Chaoyang District, Beijing 北京市朝阳区工人体育场12号看台对面

Kowloon Cafe

Walking into the Kowloon Café on the third floor of Sanlitun South District, we are immediately attracted by the carriage of the indoor bus K18. There are also seven or eight dining tables in the carriage, which is quite unique.

Kowloon Cafe’s usual “Diamond Famous Cuisine” meal, which consists of soft fried eggs with sandwiches, thick milk tea, plus a roast pork macaroni, is simple yet rich with the old Hong Kong flavor. The black truffle scrambled egg toast, which is made of farm eggs blended into the proportion of egg paste and fried with a little oil, then sprinkled with black truffle. It does not taste greasy at all, but soft and smooth that leave fragrance in your mouth!

Address: 3rd Floor, No. 6 Building, South Area of Tai Gu Li, Sanlitun, No. 19, Sanlitun North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 北京市朝阳区三里屯北路19号三里屯太古里南区6号楼3层

GL Cafe

Among a number of Chinese regional cuisines, Hong Kong cuisine that features delicate dishes appears more attractive to guests. Notably, GL Cafe, a Hong Kong style restaurant, is highly recommended.

GL Cafe offers a wealth of classic Hong Kong-style delicacies, and its lunch set meals are most popular.

A dish of barbecued pork, chicken in soy sauce and roast duck (you can choose any two of them as you like) is paired with a bowl of Chinese herbal chicken soup, Chinese yam beef soup, or a cup of milk coffee, lemon tea or coffee, will enrich your lunch time.

Address: NB1041, B1, North Section of China World Mall, Chaoyang District, Beijing 北京市朝阳区国贸商城北区 地下一层NB1041

The Soup Kitchen

As the name indicates, the Soup Kitchen is a Cantonese restaurant providing various kinds of soups. It positions itself as “a healthy restaurant suitable for private parties” with a healthy, natural, relaxing and friendly environment, attracting a host of loyal fans who pursue high quality and health care.

Soup is imperative for people as it is a daintiness to express feelings. Following the change of the four seasons, the restaurant, after its 24 Solar Terms-based soups, has creatively introduced soups with four themes of “Chunxing (wake up in the spring), Xiaqing (be refreshing in the summer), Qiurun (eat nourishing food in the autumn), and Dong’an (keep fit in the winter)”. It also offers seasonal gifts for customers to help them feel the changing seasons and the slow pace in buzzing cities.

The best-known staple food in Cantonese cuisine is the clay pot rice. With multi-porous clay pots, the restaurant uses open fire to cook clay pot rice, making it well flavored. Undoubtedly, making the clay pot rice is a test of cooking skills. Featuring freshly prepared as ordered, the rice gives off heavy aroma of bacon when evenly mixing with sauce.

Address: Floor B1, Gemdale Plaza, Dawang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 北京市朝阳区大望路金地广场B1层