5 Famous Local Guangzhou Foods, in China

Are you ready for Canton Fair(China Import & Export Fair)? Last time, we wirte a article about hotel near Pazhou, Canton Fair Complex. Today, I will recommend some famous guangzhou food for you.

1. dapaidong(大排档)
dapaidong(大排档) are popular outdoor dining stands. Reminiscent of pop-up restaurants or food trucks, the types of food that can be found at dapaidong are endless: from breakfast foods like comforting rice porridge with crunchy deep-fried bread sticks to full-sized dishes of every variety imaginable, to midnight snacks made with fresh seafood, and more. Plus, you can’t beat the prices at dapaidong.

2. Double Skin Milk

Double skin milk, a famous Cantonese dessert, features its soft, smooth taste and sweet, fragrant smell. Boil the milk over low heat, remove from heat and pour the hot milk into bowl. The skin of milk formed as milk cooled. Then use a toothpick to lift up a corner of the skin and pour the mixture of egg white and sugar into it, the skin is still floating on the surface of the milk. After simmered again, another skin appears, so it is called double skin milk. It tastes smooth and mildly sweet.

3.Steamed Vermicelli Roll (Changfen)

Steamed vermicelli roll, a kind of rice-made food, is one of the Guangzhou characteristic snacks served regularly in the teahouses and night markets. Because of its long rectangular shape, with pig intestines similar, so called steamed vermicelli roll. In this dish, rice slurry is spread across a multi-layered box or cloth to steam, and we can get the filmy skin. Then spread the meat, fish, shrimp or some vegetable on the surface, after cooked, rolled them into strips. The thin, aromatic, smooth and tasty steamed vermicelli roll is ready for you.

4. Tongfu Road Street
Tongfu Road's local specialties are a delicious relic of old Guangzhou. You'll be able to try everything from addictive old-fashioned snacks to comforting, slow-cooked stews here.just take the metro to the 2nd Workers Cultural Palace (line 2) and look for the signs directing you to Tongfu Road.

5. Wide Rice Noodle
a type of wide rice noodle popular across China, is made by slicing blocks of rice flour dough into long, thin strips and then soaking the noodles in mountain spring water from the famous Nine Dragon Spring at Guangzhou’s Baiyun Mountain. “White, thin, and stretchy” hefen can be stir-fried, added to soup, or tossed with a variety of sauces and eaten cold.

There is an old saying that Guangzhou is the place to go for great food, so if you are in Guangzhou, why not grab a few friends and check out some of the city’s local foods for a true taste of Guangzhou?