Capital of gourmet food

Guangzhou has been known as the Capital of Gourmet Food for 2,000 years. As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine features vastly diverse ingredients and exquisite production, emphasizing the color, fragrance, taste, shape and freshness of food. Cantonese dishes are of light taste, and change seasonally to highlight freshness and nutrition. In areas around Beijing Lu, Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street and Xiguan Food Street, well-known snacks, dim sum and ffavored food are everywhere. Soup, tea and late-night snacks are also part of Guangzhou's food culture.
The city is home to a large number of time-honored Cantonese restaurants, Chaozhou cuisine restaurants, bustling tea houses and restaurants serving other Chinese cuisines, such as Hunan restaurants, Sichuan restaurants, hot pot restaurants, Shandong restaurants and Huaiyang restaurants. There are also many good places to go for western cuisines, such as western restaurants, coffee shops, McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Additionally, a lot of affordable small restaurants, food stalls, traditional snack bars which serve special dishes, hot pots, barbecues and snacks also thrive in the city.

Located in the south subtropical zone, Guangzhou has fresh fruits on the market all year round, and earns the reputation of the “Hometown of Fruits”. It is blessed with over 200 kinds of fruits, among which lychee, banana, papaya and pineapple are known as the “Four Famous Fruits in Lingnan”. In addition, other fruits such as mango, star fruit, pomegranate, longan, white olive, black olive, wampee, bayberry, jackfruit, Sanhua plum and watermelon are also wellreceived.

Source: Foreign Affairs Office Guangzhou Municipal People's Government