Nanning Food and Restaurants
Dining
Nanning is the city with all kinds of food in the world. Here, you can not only taste the classical dishes of Guangxi style, Canton style and food famous home and abroad, but also the traditional local snacks like the Old Friend Noodles (rice noodles), Rice Roll, Bazhen Rice Noodles, steamed dumplings, mungbean paste, fried field snail and so on. Precious, fantastic, delicate, fresh and endowed with ethic flavors, they are of great help to stimulate one's appetite, which make visitors forget to go home.
Old Friend Noodles (rice noodles)
It is the most famous snack in Nanning with a history of a thousand years. It is said that there was an old customer who visited a tea house everyday, but he didn't appear one day since he was suffering with a cold. Having known that, the boss sent him a bowl of hot noodles cooked with chopped garlic, lobster sauce, sour bamboo shoots and chopped beef. The customer got much better after eating it, thus it was named as old friend noodles.
The noodles can help to prevent wet and stimulate the appetite, so it is a long lasting food warmly welcomed by customers.
Nanning Lemon Duck
Sour and spicy, the favor is heavy at the first chaw but you can’t stop your chopsticks at the second chaw. The duck is scrip and delicious, neither soft nor oily, but with a special smell of lemon. The sour and spicy favor of lemon duck is not only because of the lemon but also because of sour chili, sour garlic, sour ginger added in the frying and preserved lemon and perilla added just before it is ready. The preserved lemon not the fresh lemon is helpful to clear away the smell of fish and make the duck soft as well as fresh.
Bazhen Rice Noodles
It is said to be a dish in the palace diet of Qing dynasty, and it has more than 8 ingredients like seafood and fresh vegetable and other dainties which complement each other. The name Bazhen which means 8 treasures is from the famous saying "Like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each one shows his or her special prowess".
Rice Roll
It is another snack in Nanning. Spread the thick syrup made of soaked rice onto a white and hot cloth in a tray and put the tray into a steam box to steam it. When it is ready, roll the rice paste into the shape of tiny pillar and add with ingredients like sesame oil and wampee sauce. The food taste fresh and soft and smooth.
Sour Pickles
Sour pickles are preserved fruits and vegetable. Nanning has a long history of eating sour pickles. In a hot climate, eating sour pickles was to preserve cool and prevent wet, and the custom has persisted to the present day. Usually, the local products like mango, plums, pawpaw, peaches, cabbage and other fresh fruit and vegetable are pickled with ingredients like sugar, chili and vinegar. Sour, sweet and spicy, they are scrip and fresh, which is helpful to stimulate one's appetite.
Note: zhongshan Delicacy Street is a traditional delicacy street in Nanning, colleting all kinds of old cafes and restaurants and gathering the local traditional snacks and food, such as the old friend rice noodles, Bazhen rice noodles, steamed dumplings, duck blood, seafood, sour pickles and so on. After 10:00 p.m., the street is crowed and bright as daytime, which forms a special sight in Nanning.
Featured Restaurants
Wanguo Restaurant
Located on Minsheng road in Nanning city and built in 1945, Wanguo Restaurant is famous in Nanning for its local flavored dishes. It can cook above 100 kinds of local dishes, including the Nanning Chicken Wrapped in Paper, Yongcheng Chicken in Wine Sauce, Thick Soup of Snake，Cat and Chicken, Pork Hot Pot and so on. And the Nanning Chicken Wrapped in Paper is the most special one.
Nanning Nanhu Fish Cafe
The fish café is in the Nanhu Lake on Binhu road, which is good at cooking fish dishes. It can cook more than 100 kinds of dishes and the most famous one is the "Fresh Fish". Other famous dishes are steamed Siniperca Chuatsi, Carp with Brown Sauce, Sliced Fish with Garlic and so on. Besides, the café can also cook delicious seafood and wild animals.
Zhucheng Cafe
Walking along Gonghe road, visitors will find the café at the crossing near Wanda Plaza. You are advised to taste the old friend rice noodles there. Though the café is small, it has a certain history. Its was once a state-run catering café at Dangyang street, a must visited place for local citizens whenever they went shopping at Xingning street on Sunday. Eating the fresh and spicy old friend noodle and recalling the days in childhood with old friends, it is a distinctive flavor. Besides, the wonton there is also worthy of tasting.
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