Food & Restaurants
The style of Zhuhai cuisine is similar to that of Shenzhen. It is dominated by Guangdong cuisine and also incorporates cuisines of other parts in the world. It is a good choice to savor the fresh and cheap seafood abundant in Zhuhai, such as fresh oysters, green crabs, lobsters, urchins, barnacles, the general's caps (a kind of abalone). The one worth mentioning is the Portuguese cuisine of Zhuhai. It is generally dealt with by chefs of Portuguese origin. It is a new fashion to take Portuguese cuisine in Zhuhai. Restaurants attached to hotels are capable of holding more than 20 thousand customers. The eight well-known schools of Chinese cuisine, western cuisines, the Emperor's banquet, Chinese medicinal cusine are all served here. The Zhuhai cuisine integrates delicacies throughout the world. The dishes feature a wide range of raw materials, diversified colors and new designs with rich flavor of South China. The famous dishes include Zhuhai roasted pigeon, roast pig, abalone cooked like a peacock, Deishi rock oyster of Yinkeng, lotus root of Baiteng Lake, etc.
Famous local dishes
Doumen Peeler Crab
Peeler crabs live in the salted and fresh waters. It is a rare seafood. Its body shiny when cooked and the meat taste tender and fresh. The dish contains plenty of protein, and is an invigorating food well known in such areas as Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan and Zhuhai, etc.
Hengqin Oysters
This is a kind of Offshore oysters, living in the surrounding waters of the Hengqin Island. The water flows smoothly around the Hengqin Island, with adequate salinity and temperatures, full of nutrition without pollution, and therefore is ideal for oyster growth. The jumbo oyster is delicious, tender, sweet and fresh, and it's famous for its large size, meaty body, white color, tender taste, and crisp texture at home and abroad. Oysters are a top marine product with rich nutrition and dietary values. It has good effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, restoring qi, replenishing qi and blood, resolving the hard lumps, calming the liver and subduing yang and treating dizziness, sugar diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. it is also capable of preventing and curing diseases, such as curearteriosclerosis and cancer. Eating oysters regularly will make your skin lustrous, smooth, white and beautiful.
Baiteng Lotus Roots
The lotus roots living in the Baiteng Lake area is unique, natural, pollution-free. It is famous for its large size and pulpy texture without dregs in regions of Hongkong and Macao. Baiteng lotus roots are presented to relatives and friends as gifts and promoted on banquets. The dishes are "braised lotus roots with roast pork" and "braised lotus roots with frogs".
Wanshan Prawn
The Wanshan Prawn, also called "crystal prawn", is one of eight important staple marine products and important marine product resources along the coast of the country. The fishing fields of Wanshan Islands in Zhuhai have a long history of prawn farming. The prawn can be steamed and fried. It can be made not only into all style of delicate snacks, but also into all sorts of famous dishes.
Oyster Banquet
Oysters originate from the Fuxiang Bay oyster field in Hengqin. The Hengqin Island is an off island in the south of Zhuhai City. It is about 40 minutes' drive from the ferry quay of the Jiuzhou Harbor. The oyster field is opposite to Luhuan, face Macau across the bay. The period from November to April of every year is the ideal season for savoring oysters as oysters maturate gradually during winter times after being cultivated for more than a half year. The oysters raised in the Hengqin Island are especially large in size and thick in meat due to good quality water. They can be fried crisp, scalded, baked on iron boards and baked with ginger and scallion. It is also excellent for the dish of "surrounding the hot pot", a chafing dish cooked in a terrine. Oysters contain rich protein, which is believed to have effects of strengthening yang and preserving face. Therefore, as the oyster season arrives, a great number of "oyster guests" will come a long way from Macau, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and other areas to gorge on oysters.
Featured restaurants
New Haizhen Fishing Harbor
Opposite to the Grand Yijing Bay Restaurant, the new Haizhen Fishing Harbor is the sole seafood restaurant situated on the seaside beach. The clean restaurant with smiling waitresses serves tasty dishes. Tourist can also enjoy watching the open stretch of the blue sky and the blue sea here. When winter and summer come, the restaurant serves authentic banyan snake and beef ball chafing dishes. The restaurant specializes in various of seafood, such as abalones, sea cucumbers, and shark fins at reasonable prices.
Location: No.86 the middle section of the Qinglv Road in Jida, Zhuhai City.
New Zhandian Restaurant
They serve a series of seasonal tonic dishes with raw materials brought from the mountainous countryside. The boiled countryside chicken slice is considered as the "treasure" of the restaurant for its authentic flavor. The seafood served here is also worth tasting.
Location: On the Yanhe East Road in the Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City; Tel: 0756-2133388 0756-2132288
Linggao Digital Posthouse
Located on the second floor of the Yihua commercial mansion in Waizai of Xiangzhou District, the Linggao Digital Posthouse is a western restaurant with magnificent decoration and graceful style, blending leisure, entertainment and dining together. It centers on western food and offers free internet service. Inviting several friends and taking booth seats, it is comfortable to go on-line for chatting and listening to music. The charges there are low.
Location:On the second floor of the Yihua Commercial Mansion in Waizai, Xiangzhou District; Tel: 0756-2121498
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