Beijing
Plenty of Beijing's international restaurants get their imported foodstuffs at this covered market. From Thai lime leaves to baked beans, Sanyuanli has it…
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Gansu
For a fast, hot meal in the evenings, especially barbecued lamb washed down with beer, try the food stalls at this market, north of the Xinhua Lu traffic…
Puji Temple Vegetarian Restaurant
Zhejiang
A vegetarian canteen inside Puji Temple serving great value meals. Buy a ticket at the 'box office' and then grab a bowl.
Inner Mongolia
The glossy Wanda mall, diagonally opposite the museum, has a clutch of Chinese restaurants on the top floor serving everything from noodles to hotpots and…
Fujian
The stakes are high on Longtou Lu, and the staff at Líjì Mùdān will shout you into a plastic seat for some of that fishball goodness in soup or on a…
Wuhan
'Old Street Barbecue' serves spicy grilled meats, fish and veggies in a pleasant sit-down restaurant. Large bottles of cheap beer help keep the chilli at…
Hainan
This Haikou institution in Old Town does a brisk business in scalding bowls of wonton soup. A ‘small’ is plenty filling. There’s a picture menu.
Liaoning
This retro cafe in a handy spot beside a fruit market is popular with students and couples for its geek chic. The drip-filter coffee is really good.
Beijing
Western-style vegetarian and vegan fare here includes shitake mushroom burger with home fries, Thai yellow curry and rice, and vegan carrot cake.
The Great Wall
This restaurant up by the main entrance to Mutianyu Great Wall serves family-style Chinese food. Inexpensive, considering the location.
Anhui
The pancakes here are a good choice, with ¥15 buying you a big pancake with pork mince topping plus green onions and chilli.
China
This nicely renovated old ancestral temple has been turned into a restaurant and tea house, and has reasonably priced dishes.
The Great Wall
One of the few restaurants near to Jinshanling Great Wall ticket office that stays open in winter. It has an English menu.
Lhasa
This simple monastery restaurant serves up cheap noodles and thermoses of sweet, milky tea in its pleasant back garden.
Changchun Temple Vegetarian Restaurant
Wuhan
Housed next door to the Changchun Temple, this place prepares a delectable spread of mock-meat creations. Photo menu.
Inner Mongolia
This bustling and central street is stuffed with dozens of Chinese and Mongolian restaurants and the occasional cafe.
Hubei
'Grandma's' is a cheery modern place with a good selection of the usual home-style dishes. No English menu.
Tianjin
Pocket-sized pizzeria on tree-lined Hebei Lu. Young, friendly staff, an English menu and beer on tap.
Shandong
Hawkers serve up snacks by Dai Temple at this low-key street market, but expect tourist prices.
Dalian
Large supermarket with good selection of takeaway food and baked goods in the Sanba Sq area.
Shandong
A small pedestrianised 'food street' lined with street-food stalls and noodles joints.
Kunming
French-owned supermarket with a wide range of domestic and foreign food and products.
Shanghai
The original food street may have been replaced by a more sanitised pedestrian area in the run-up to the World Expo, but when it comes to snack food,…
Dunhuang
Western-style breakfasts, including scrambled eggs, muesli with yoghurt, and pancakes, are available all day either à la carte or as a set. There are also…
There is a Yellow Flesh of a Donkey
Dunhuang
This bright, clean and friendly restaurant specialises in Dunhuang's not-exactly-famous donkey-meat noodles (驴肉黄面, lǘròu huángmiàn). Warm noodles are…
Jiangxi
It's not all Popeye at 40 paces at this friendly, no-frills restaurant; there are plenty of other dishes besides, and some handy photos on the wall to aid…
Beijing
A rather drab, touristy outpost of Tianjin's most famous restaurant chain, Goubuli is known for its bāozi (包子), a variety of steamed bun with a fluffy…
Gansu
Directly across from the bus station on the far side of a small park is this very good and rather smart Sichuan restaurant. Reach for the 'cookery book' …
Hong Kong
One of many Western restaurant–bars along lively High St, Ollie’s has a pretty standard menu of burgers and pasta dishes, plus crowd-pleasing brunch…
Beijing
Longstanding bistro restaurant with a menu that melds east and west – think Vietnamese phở (beef and rice noodle soup) alongside French-style roast…
Guizhou
Simple place serving up cheap and cheerful pork rice noodles (鲜肉米粉, xiānròu mǐfěn; ¥8) and yellow sticky rice (糯米饭, nuòmǐ fàn) served with pickled…
Hong Kong
When this legendary French patissier opened in IFC Mall there were lines for days, but now it's just one of several fancy sweet emporiums catering to…
Heilongjiang
A few doors down from the famous tofu shop Wángmáolǘ Dòufu Měishí Diàn is this humble noodle joint which serves slurpingly hot soups in which meat and…
Xiamen
Tǔsǔndòng (土笋冻, sandworm jelly) sounds disconcerting, but the taste is fairly bland (if not for the lashings of mustard, cilantro and bamboo shoots). Try…
Jiangxi
Located just inside in the Ceramic Art Avenue, Hútáolǐ's menu spans a selection of regional Chinese dishes. Mains of note are the steamed chicken, sweet…
Xiamen
Fujian sweets include zǐcài huāshēng (紫菜花生, sweet seaweed peanuts; ¥20 per bag), liúlián táng (榴莲糖, durian candy) and li hing mui (旅行梅, sugared plum…
Gansu
This upstairs place has a comfortable Tibetan-style interior with expensive coffee, plus breakfasts, sandwiches and other western dishes and desserts. It…
Green Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant
Dunhuang
This very elegant (but expensive) choice is arrayed with all manner of exquisite ceramics and paintings and exudes an air of tranquillity and…
Henan
Worth a look if you're in the area, the night market opposite Shaolin Hotel has plenty of goodies on offer for the adventurous diner. If entrails on…
Shandong
This dandified strip of eateries, with mock Imperial-Chinese facades, is down an alleyway called Wei Erlu (纬二路) and includes a messy side alley of noodle…
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