Food & Restaurants

Shenzhen is a typical immigrant city. So you can find cuisines of many other cities of China here. Additionally, Thai cuisine, Vietnam cuisine, Japanese cuisine, Indonesian Cuisine and many other Western-style fast-foods are available in Shenzhen too. Besides the traditional hotels and restaurants, various theme restaurants like cafe, tea house and snack bars are also very popular.

Famous Food

Caoke: Decoct mesona chinensis benth in water and get its liquid. Filter the sediment in the water and add some tapioca to it. Mix it thoroughly and heat it up. Then put the boiling mixture in a cask or an aluminum pot to cool. The cream after the condensation is called Caoke which looks brown and crystal with a refreshing fragrance.

Longzai Rice: The most remarkable feature of the steamed rice lies in that the rice is permeated with the fragrance of lotus leaves. It is because the rice is steamed with the wrap of lotus leaves for quite a long time. Of course, this is just one factor of this delicious food.

Longzai rice with lotus leaves tastes like Baozai rice as they are both savory and delicious. There are many flavors of Longzai rice such as mushroom chicken, cured meat, sauced meat and seafood rice. You can choose the flavor as you like. Baozai rice usually has some crispy rice in it and it is pretty interesting to eat it with spoon. Eating Longzai rice is relatively easier. The refreshing fragrance of lotus sends forth from the rice gradually.? The inspiration of creating Longzai rice comes from the traditional Cantonese food—glutinous rice chicken.??

Mugwort Rice: This snack is made of one kind of mugwort growing on the ridge of fields. Pound this mugwort and wrap it with the rice flour. The flavor of mugwort is sweet with special fragrance in it. Chewing it carefully, the fragrance will come into your throat and your nose. When I was young, I always went to pick up mugwort with my sister. The thing impressed me most was the mugwort growing on the coastal barrier which looked plump. The rice made by this mugwort is especially savory.

Crystal Meat: The meat looks crystal in appearance and it is a good choice to dispel the effects of alcohol. The crystal meat is made by pork without the skin, white sugar and slices of melon. You should first cook the pork thoroughly and chop it into pieces. Then, preserve the meat with white sugar for one day. After that, put some slices of melon on it and braise it thoroughly. The meat is tender, fragrant, delicious, a little fat but not greasy.

Featured Restaurants

Yinxing Porridge Shop?

Wupi duck porridge in Yinxing has long enjoyed a good reputation. The material of this porridge is Beijing force-feed ducks. After peel the skin of the duck, preserve it with original-created seasonings. When the porridge has been cooked with slow fire for about three hours, put the preserved Wupi duck in it and cook together. Wupi duck porridge gives off a delicately sweet flavor which gladden the heart and refresh the mind. The porridge taste rich, mild, refreshing, but not greasy. You will not want to stop your chopsticks.

Besides, there are many other kinds of porridges served in Yinxing Porridge Shop. The popular ones are seafood porridges like Gaoxie porridge, Niyumeng porridge, Finless eel porridge and Lobster porridge. The game porridges like Pheasant porridge, Partridge porridge and Hare porridge are delicious too. Since every kind of porridge is cooked up elaborately, it is great enjoyment to eat the porridge and the aftertaste will remain in your mouth for a long time.

Hakka City

All the raw materials are stocked in Hakka habitat and they are all natural food without any pollution. All the chefs in this restaurant are Hakka people and the food served here are made by traditional methods. The dishes gather the soul of Hakka cuisine. The featured dishes are: Stewed Sanhuang chicken without soy sauce, Specially cooked Sanbei duck, Self-grind bean curd, Sanbei pig intestine, Hakka alcohol cooked chicken, Stewed fish mouth with Zijin sauce, Countryside pork soup and many other new dishes of Hakka. The prices of these dishes are reasonable. So this place is your first choice of business meals, friends gatherings or organization activities.

Chaotai Beef Restaurant

The beef broth of Chaotai Beef Restaurant, which is stewed tens of hours everyday, is the nutritious soup full of the essence of the beef. The sirloin tastes tender, the beef tastes delicate, the tripe tastes refreshing and the beef meatball taste flexible. Then, try the vegetables in the hot broth and drink the thick broth. You will find that the taste of beef has penetrated into the radish, the dried rolls of bean-milk cream, the lettuce and the dried bean curd. Meanwhile, the fragrance of vegetables dissolves in the beef broth. The mixture of beef and vegetables make them taste better. The thick broth, which assembles the essence of beef, sirloin, tripe and the vegetables, has been stewed thoroughly. It is supreme feast to drink the broth. The famous dish of this restaurant is the beef chafing dish. You can taste the delicious beef meatballs in it and drink the thick broth. The restaurant pays lot of attention on stocking the materials. All the dishes here are made by high-quality ox in China, which taste great.

Huizhou Niuzai Chicken

The Niuzai Chicken, which is steamed by salt and other seasonings, is chopped into several parts and brought to the table. The guests put on their gloves and chaw the chicken happily. The taste of Niuzai Chicken is similar to that of Salt Steamed Chicken, but Niuzai Chicken has more juice in it. It smells savory and tastes delicious.?
Besides Huizhou Niuzai Chicken, another famous dish is Yuanzhong chicken broth in coconut. Although the cooking method of the chef is important, it is more important to choose an old coconut, as the old one has a specially deep fragrance.