actually the hot pot at huihua backdoor quite nice although its by the street my gal brought me there its only 10 rmb and u get a really nice hotpot
Ah yes!! Street food! In fact there ARE a lot of great street foods in CP.
And those hot pot - or Ma Laat Tang - places are great places to break bread as usually, there ARE at least a couple or so gals also partaking at the same stall. An innocent question to her/them like what is that or is that good are easy opener for more conversation. Errr.... NOT saying that one should try to get freebies whilst in CP (most gals are in CP to actually sell their body after all, and its not nice to get her body and not pay...just sayin'!), but these places are great places to get to know a gal in their own surroundings and in their natural habitat. This versus at the quite unreal/plastic surroundings of a KTV room when you are paying for the privilege of getting to know your quarry!!
This talk about the new super club n SWL got me thinking about all the places that’s come and gone in CP; seems like businesses sprouts…and then close just as rapidly here. One of the few things I’ve never understood is how come with all you Singaporean/Malaysian guys coming here, Sing/Ma restaurants never seem to do well in CP; the Singapore Restaurant on Zhenhua 10 Rd has closed down, the Baikut tea place behind the Sun Kong is long gone and that little restaurant in front of the Legend café on SWL road is also history. Are they all that inadequate according to you guys from Singapore/Malaysia?
Anyway… I’ve just had a series of friends come toChangPing and different guys brought me/I brought them to different places to eat. Now, I figure that since we all need to eat (and in fact, it seems like that’s all I do when I’m not out screwing when I’m in CP!), perhaps I could outline a few places I personally find GREAT. Not only just good value for money, but more importantly, food I personally find good in this little hamlet. Hope you guys find it useful and also, I very much hope that you will contribute your own favorite places so that I/we all can benefit from your sharing of the information..
Dim Sum – the old favorites used to be the Miraton and Hui Hua, but I find that nowadays it’s really not value for money (Tea charge PLUS 10%?? In CP?) plus I do think their standards have slipped somewhat. Especially at the Miraton when I have TWICE caught the waiter VERBALLY adding 40 or 50 RMB to what the actual bill was when I checked. Both times I complained to the captain and whilst they did apologize for their staff’s carelessness etc, I do think that these captains are probably part of the scheme to fleece us guys who do NOT normally check the bill, especially when fighting for it etc.
Then there’s the new places like The Old restaurant (on the 3rd floor of the Lucky), the one on the top floor of the new LCC mall (what does LCC stand for? Lousy Chinese Crap?? LOL!!). But these places are also very pricey IMHO…and prices there seem to have already risen even though still so relatively new. MY current favorite for Dim Sum is the Yihao where my friend pointed out the drastic difference between the lowest priced Dim Sum (RMB 4.80) and their highest priced ones (I think RMB 18.80 if I’m not wrong). And here I WAS assuming all along, whenever I go to Dim sum, that price difference between one dim sum dish to another should not be that much! Yihao do NOT charge any 10% plus if you stay away from their pricey Teas, you can get away with a real small bill whilst having a real fill. And if they get to know you like they know my friend, they “compliment” him with the pricey teas too. The only drawback to the Yihao is that they stop the kitchen at 1:30 PM – WHAT??!!
Goose and Duck – CP is long famous for its roast goose/duck from days gone by when this area was rural and this fame has carried on and there are still 3 great goose places on Zhenhua #10 road (the street where the Triangular park between the Hui Mei and The Virgin is at.) I like the last one AWAY from the Hui Mei, but all of them have GREAT Goose on all sorts of noodles (RMB 13) or rice (RMB 18). Don’t bother to order most of the other items on the menu as IMHO, they’re a bit overpriced for the place/ambience and I can pretty well guarantee you that you will be stuffed when ordering just one Bowl/plate rice. Great deal for a fast, tasty treat.
On that same street is the old time foreign visitor’s favorite, again from days long gone when there was NOT that many places serving decent coffee AND menus in English – Mito’s restaurant where we love to go after 2 PM. It used to be better when there were a lot of seats looking outside to the “Sea of Pussy” of gals going to get their hair done, have lunch, go back to their KTV job etc. And oh, why after 2 PM? Because that is the time when they start serving their Tea set which is a GREAT deal.
And talk about great deals – how about RMB 50 for a WHOLE duck?? There’s a new place in between the Rainbow Shopping mall and the 6000 restaurant that serves you a whole duck for that price (and you can order unlimited rice for RMB 2 and bowls of noodles for RMB 4) which is more than enough even for 4 pax. The 4 of us were there last night and my gal has today made yummy duck congee from the big doggie bag of left-over duck she insisted on taking back last night!
And the 6000 restaurant – yeah, a chain restaurant but IMHO an ideal place combining very good food, reasonable prices AND an acceptable ambience/facilty. I particularly love their Chilled Kai Lan served on a bed of crushed ice, accompanied with Wasabi and soya sauce!! Best Greens in town!
But if you want to impress, I guess Lo’s on the same street as Mito’s is the place all the KTV gals drag us suckers to for après KTV suppers. Yeah, the food is good but what can you expect for the price you have to pay. Nah…this place had gone off my radar a long time ago and if I need to bring guests/girls to a nicer place, I’d rather bring them to the Capital Club at the other end of the building housing the Sing party KTV (the ex PP KTV). Great ambience, a bit pricey but well worth it IMHO and they DO have a good selection of wines and a decent particular favorite of mine - foie gras.
And the various Boton restaurants in town – especially the one next to the Cultural Centre - are very reasonably priced, offering nice surroundings and live music. NICE! And the Boton Steak house, OK what can you expect in a place like CP – but surprisingly, their steaks are acceptable and their Moccha and coffee Icee (blended ice – forgot what they call it exactly) is like ambrosia especially during the hot Summer months!
The Hong Kong style Cha Chaan Teng’s are OK for quick, reasonably priced meals, but they really are getting a bit pricey for what you get. Tsui wah on ZhongYuan street and the Legend café on SWL I favor over the others - like the used to be ubiquitous Kam Ho restaurants (many have closed down – deservedly – as they were really dirty places!) or the one across the street from the Pozolim which have REALLY raised their prices of late.
Then there is the slew of restaurants in the #8 mall – two which I sort of like
1)Saizeria – a Taiwanese owned, Japanese style Italian restaurant chain (yeah, a helluva combination) for its VERY CHEAP meals where I could take Western friends to and where they can complain about the crap Pizza, steaks and pastas! LOL! But cheap it is and IMHO quite a good deal for acceptable meals, especially the fresh salad which I just cannot get anywhere else in CP and their free flow drinks for RMB 6!!
2) A Ping Er Fong (??) which is cafeteria style place serving great tasting food for a very reasonable price (a whole steamed fish for RMB 12, various small plate full of veggies for RMB 4 etc). I also like the place as I’ve often seen the owner taking pride in his place and ALWAYS cleaning up here, there, everywhere; there’s a branch of this restaurant in the building next to the Rainbow across the street from Starbucks.
Hairy Crab – the best and tastiest deal IMHO. Go to the Yalan wholesale plaza and get your own live Hairy crabs for RMB 40 – 60/lb for real good sized ones. Take them to the nearby Chiu Chow congee places to steam for you (last time they charged me RMB 50 for 20 crabs) and top it all off with the restaurant’s famous Chiu Chow congee! Perfect for cold winter nights!
And Cold winter nights are great for Hot Pots – no, not the Little Lamb hot pot or the newish RMB 48/68 all you can eat one on top of the Pozolim (they charge extra @pax for the soup base!! LOL!) but at the Pig’s intestine chicken on the 2/f across the street from the Postal Savings bank/Gome appliance store on top of the recently closed Breeze Cloud cha chaan teng. Great big steaming bowl of fresh soup with chunks of chicken and intestine which after you’ve finished eating, serves as the soup for various items you order as hot pot. And the highlight here? Their fried peanuts they serve as appetizer!! They’re the best darn peanuts I’ve had, all nice and crunchy and flavored just right! Most times I gorge on these and get full even before the steam boat rrives!!
OK, enough of my rambling/this is getting to darn long – hope you guys find it of some use and that you WILL also contribute to the knowledge – with mucho thanks beforehand!!
Good post bro
Am going home tomorrow.
Had dinner at huihua. The quality has dropped and the service really crap.
Will be good to hear from u.
Pig intestine chicken - I go to the one near ouya opp agricultural bank
Tried something new this trip porridge hotpot - just opp 新世紀, what is unique is that u order ur stuff ala normal hotpot but u cook it in porridge instead
For 燒烤 i normally like the ones behind California red on swan lake
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Had dinner at huihua. The quality has dropped and the service really crap.
Will be good to hear from u.
Cheers
Hotel dining rooms - yes, mostly over-priced IMHO and really not much need to dine there as there are so many alternatives to them these days. Some of them, especially the smaller ones, have caught on that they need to offer competitive pricing/services to compete effectively i.e.the Sun Kong which now offers pretty good all you can eat hot pots, the Clipper with their OK priced dinner buffet in their Bali restaurant etc.
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Pig intestine chicken - I go to the one near ouya opp agricultural bank
Tried something new this trip porridge hotpot - just opp 新世紀, what is unique is that u order ur stuff ala normal hotpot but u cook it in porridge instead
For 燒烤 i normally like the ones behind California red on swan lake
Yes, there's quite a few of these Pig intestine places opening up these days; one just 1 block down from Boton Steak house on ChangPing avenue and I went to one just across the street from Silvery Holiday the other day - but I like the one I usually go to (as above) because of the peanuts!
On barbecue - quite a few good ones all over the place; the alley way behind the Rainbow department store is turned into a virtual food street after 11 PM with vehicular traffic not allowed, and there's all sorts of great places there. I particularly like the 2 Fujian stalls selling great fried noodles, double boiled soups (Only RMB 5 for a pot filled with lots of meats etc!) but crap dumplings! And of course barbecue stalls - but I've learned to be a bit careful to look that the stuff I pick is fresh; I've had nasty runs after consuming what I now figure must have been some satays gone bad but unnoticeable as it had been spiced/marinated heavily. The ma laat tang stalls there are also great as a lot of the working gals live at the apartment building on top of the Rainbow and they have their supper there after work. There's also quite a few guys who Bao their gals in that building and their guys are NOT ALWAYS in town are they? LOL!
Porridge hot pot - I tried this in Guangzhou last month and it was delicious! Thank you/glad to hear that CP now has a place serving this too; for sure I'll go there soon. And talking about the New Century area - how about the famous Roast Chicken restaurant just further in from the Jin Long/Kam Long hotel? I've been going there since the chicken was only RMB 18 each and the place was just wooden shacks to how it is now housed in a modern concrete/glass building. Still very good chicken but of course more pricey these days.
And how about the New Century KTV itself? Any bros gone there recently and can report? The last time I went there was during the 2nd from last Yanda when nothing else was open. I got a bit perturbed then as the girl quality there was really quite bad and then I glimpsed that small line-up of ducks; somehow, just the thought that there were guys on display there also was quite unsettling to me.
Hotel dining rooms - yes, mostly over-priced IMHO and really not much need to dine there as there are so many alternatives to them these days. Some of them, especially the smaller ones, have caught on that they need to offer competitive pricing/services to compete effectively i.e.the Sun Kong which now offers pretty good all you can eat hot pots, the Clipper with their OK priced dinner buffet in their Bali restaurant etc.
Yes, there's quite a few of these Pig intestine pllaces opening up these days; one just 1 block down from Boton Steak house on ChangPing avenue and I went to one just across the street from Silvery Holiday the other day - but I like the one I usually got to (as above) because of the peanuts!
SEAJ
went to Lihao hotel last week and tried their all u can eat hot pot....58rmb all in excellent deal for a fish lover like me. They have all kinds of river fish, also water fish, yellow eel, shrimp, crab, clams...etc.
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This talk about the new super club n SWL got me thinking about all the places that’s come and gone in CP; seems like businesses sprouts…and then close just as rapidly here. One of the few things I’ve never understood is how come with all you Singaporean/Malaysian guys coming here, Sing/Ma restaurants never seem to do well in CP; the Singapore Restaurant on Zhenhua 10 Rd has closed down, the Baikut tea place behind the Sun Kong is long gone and that little restaurant in front of the Legend café on SWL road is also history. Are they all that inadequate according to you guys from !!
Sg and my ppl go cp is not for food in the first place. Secondly when we go abroad, we prefer to try the local delicacies. Why would we want to taste lousy SG food in foreign land when we can get the authentic one back home? I don't go sushi land to eat char Kway teow!
went to Lihao hotel last week and tried their all u can eat hot pot....58rmb all in excellent deal for a fish lover like me. They have all kinds of river fish, also water fish, yellow eel, shrimp, crab, clams...etc.
Great info! I gotta also go as I also love fish! And its strange how the Lihao is not usually in my stream of consciousness for being a place of any significance although I used to stay there quite often when it first opened. Maybe its that smelly river (or rather, sewage channel) in front of it that turns me off! And the KTV when it first opened had some nice, lively girls too - anybody got the latest intel on how it is nowadays?
And talking about fish and seafood - how did I forget that perennial favorite of everybody across the street from the Lucky? Even though its so popular/always packed, it seems that they've not really gone more expensive all these years. And BTW, to dine economically here, order more from the menu and NOT go and chose too many of your own seafood from the tanks; when I order from the tanks, somehow or other the bill doubles up easily....especially if you allow the girls to do the choosing! Another good seafood restaurant is the one down the street from the OuYa and I'd say the place has got a bit better ambience versus the one across the street from the Lucky and they have private rooms too.
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Sg and my ppl go cp is not for food in the first place. Secondly when we go abroad, we prefer to try the local delicacies. Why would we want to taste lousy SG food in foreign land when we can get the authentic one back home? I don't go sushi land to eat char Kway teow!
Yes, that makes a lot of sense!! It's only guys like me who would go to Singaporean restaurants in CP.... trying to capture back memories of the great food you guys have in Singapore/Malaysia. I LOVE your food courts and how I can have a total mix of all kinds of food/cuisines/style of cooking from all the various stalls in a food court. The Food courts in America/Western countries are so sterile and devoid of character in comparison - and of course full of all sorts of JUNK fast food from chain stores. Total crap.
And I guess Singapore/Malay restaurants have not caught the taste buds of PRC locals - not yet anyway, (and I wonder when that Thai restaurant is gonna close! LOL). But as much as they now travel to SE Asian countries, I can see that they pretty soon will also be like me trying to capture back memories of the great food when traveling to these places.
But how about all these Japanese restaurants in ChangPing - even that whole "Japanese Village" on top of the Singing Dragon veggie KTV/Pozolim? That place is huge with different Japanese restaurants - but like most other Japanese restaurants in town, they NEVER seem to have but a few stragglers dining in them; how do they all stay in business? Or is it that they're so pricey that they can afford to not have to cater to the masses. Heck even their all you can eat offering (like the one next to the Pozolim) are priced very high compared to other all-you-can-eat offerings in town and certainly even pricier than in SZ or GZ!
The only ones that seems to be busy is that one in the #8 mall (which I think still offers 50% discount on all sushi after 8 pm) and that merry go round sushi one half way down ChaoYang #5 road, next to the now defunct Singapore restaurant. And oh yeah, the new Ida restaurant next to the Boton steak house which is run by a particularly friendly guy who probably have a lot of friends giving him face by patronizing his restaurant; but I wonder if his trade will also slow down when he sooner or later runs out of friends to give him face! Lets face it, the place is NOT cheap!
I am always there.just low profile now.don't have to report my movement mah. Haha
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This talk about the new super club n SWL got me thinking about all the places that’s come and gone in CP; seems like businesses sprouts…and then close just as rapidly here. One of the few things I’ve never understood is how come with all you Singaporean/Malaysian guys coming here, Sing/Ma restaurants never seem to do well in CP; the Singapore Restaurant on Zhenhua 10 Rd has closed down, the Baikut tea place behind the Sun Kong is long gone and that little restaurant in front of the Legend café on SWL road is also history. Are they all that inadequate according to you guys from Singapore/Malaysia?
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Assume you are from USA, as a tourist to CP will you go "hunt" for Mac and KFC for your meals. Unless your diet is limited to burgers and fried chicken which is not likely.
Malaysian and Singaporean have very diverse taste and unlike Hongkongers (no punt intended) we love spicy food. In fact many of us do not mind the HK style Cai Chan Tank but would not craze for it as it taste so much like our food at home.
We can enjoy Xiang (hunan) and Chuan (Sichuan) much like any other PRCs. We love the spices and the sauce that generate the aroma and taste in the food. It's in China that we can enjoy such authentic food of other provinces.
So why go for food that we can have daily in our country. Kekeke......
And thanks for taking care of me har~~! I'm drunk for most nights lol
saw you in the flight. 05.01.2012 back to sg. you sitting beside me across pathway.
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Actually i notice the backdoor of huihua and street food hotpot behind big hotels are the best flower street if u sit there around 5pm 1 hour before fs start u see girls in their own clothes non ktv and u can slowly choose. one girl was sitting beside the hot pot by me is really cute. bros can kc or bring them back as almost 99% r ktv girls lets hope there wont become a unofficial fs jus my 2 cent worth of thoughht
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