Guangzhou Hand Torn Salt Baked Chicken📍Zuoxianju Liwan Traditional Cantonese Restaurant 醉贤居 ☎ +86 20 8172 3094

In Guangzhou, besides poached there are many other chicken preparations (roast, fried, etc), including salt baked. 醉贤居 is one of the most popular local places for salt baked chicken.

I was mind blown by my first taste of salt baked chicken as a child. The memory is still vivid in my mind, so I have a deep love of salt baked chicken.

Youlian Qingping Chicken Guangzhou 清平雞 友联菜馆 杉木栏路店 广州第一鸡 ☎ +86 20 8187 6751

If you are in Guangzhou and like to try something memorable, can check out Youlian Restaurant. Youlian is popular with locals for their iconic Qingping chicken and chicken intestine.

Foshan Shunde Jindeng Village Restaurant 顺德金登饭店 · 乡村私房菜 📞 27799223 📞 18934308391

This is the kind of dining experience I willingly to fly hours for. I am told that in Guangdong (and around China) there are many such village type eating places 乡村私房菜. I would love to come back for itineraries made up entirely of eateries like 金登饭店 Jindeng Village Restaurant. You know...., others cafe or bar hop, I love village restaurant hopping.

Foshan Pork Organ Porridge · Haiji Zhou Gong Zhou Po · Congee Grandpa Grandma 佛山海记粥公粥婆 ☎ 13129199628

Well...., we didn't plan to come here. We actually wanted to have pork kidney at the famous Tiande 天德 but were turned away on arrival because their kidneys were sold out (even before opening for dinner service 🙄🥹 ).

Foshan Juhao Food Review · Goose, Raw Fish · Quality Ingredients, Authentic Yue Cuisine, Great Flavours · 聚豪园林美食(桃园店) 佛山 ☎ 0757-85222666

During our Foshan 佛山 food trip, one of the highlights was Juhao Food restaurant 聚豪酒家. The dishes (we tasted many) were good to excellent, and I was amazed by the scale of the enterprise as well as the inspiring story of the boss, chef Feng Zanbo 冯赞波.

Foshan Tiande Famous Pork Kidney Soup 佛山天德美食 猪腰王 ☎ +86 757 8212 1805

Kaki kaki Daniel had been raving about this pork kidney place weeks before our foodie tour to Foshan, Guangdong, China.

Foshan 102 House Restaurant 佛山 壹零贰小馆 ☎ +86 132 8843 2145

Kaki kaki Clarence had a memorable experience with Chef Xu Jingye 徐涇業 during his last visit to Foshan in 2018. Chef Xu, protégé of Cantonese master Chen Daben* went on to win many accolades including the Black Pearl Young Chef Award. 

Now based in Shanghai, chef Xu's 102 House Restaurant at the House of Roosevelt at The Bund in Shanghai is Michelin 2-Starred ☆☆ and in Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list.

*I love this Tatler article about the source of chef Xu's inspiration.

Go Go Jiangsu China • My Personal Journey of Discovery

Jiangsu province is one of my favourites places to visit in China. Slightly more than 102,000sq km, Jiangsu is the third smallest Chinese province but the fourth most populous with around 85 million people. (To put things in perspective, Peninsula Malaysia is 131,000sq km in size with population 20 million.)

Jiangsu province has the highest Per Capita GDP among China's 34 provinces at USD22,500.

Fly Direct from Singapore Changi to Zhangjiajie by Loong Air 🛫 Launch 9 Oct 2025

Starting from 9 Oct 2025, Loong Air 长龙航空 will fly direct between Singapore and Zhangjiajie 张家界 in China's Hunan province.

Firefly Fly Direct btw Senai & Guiyang from Mar 2026 • Door to Guizhou, Chongqing, Chengdu

✍️24 Aug 2025. Starting Mar 2026, Firefly will be flying direct from Senai Airport to Guiyang Airport, capital of China's Guizhou province.

Two Mile Prawn Noodle @ Jiaobin Road in Xiamen 二哩虾面 • 厦门市角滨路45号

If you are a prawn noodle lover (many Singaporeans are), when you are in Xiamen, Fujian, you may wish to try out the prawn noodle there. It's the OG (original) - mother of Singapore prawn noodles.

You will find a strong resemblance between the prawn noodle of Xiamen and Singapore / Malaysia. I find such overseas connections and the insights they provide on our own cuisine, most fascinating. That's one of the things I constantly look out for when travelling.

Shunde Chencun Deyunju Sliced Fish Hotpot 顺德陈村德云居 ☏ 0757-2639 1908

Our local Shunde guide brought us to 陈村德云居 Chencun Deyunju for their signature Sliced Fish in Hotpot 顺德无骨鱼 using 正宗水库大鱼 Big Head Carp fish. 

Tao Tao Ju Main Restaurant Guangzhou near Beijing Lu Pedestrian Street 陶陶居十甫总店 ☏ 020 8050 3899

Tao Tao Ju 陶陶居 (十甫总店) | 20 No.10 Fu Rd, 上下九地区 Liwan District, Guangzhou, Guangdong China, 510175  广东省广州市荔湾区上下九地区第十甫路 20号 邮政编码: 510175 ☎ 020-8050 3899 ⏰ 8am - 4pm | 5pm - 9pm

Heard a lot about Guangzhou's venerable Tao Tao Ju 陶陶居 restaurant (founded in 1880). It's like a pilgrimage every Cantonese cuisine fan has to make (at least once) when in Guangzhou. 

Wong Dan Kee • It's All About Rice Noodles Chen Cun Fun 黄旦记 陳村粉 Shunde Must Eat Huangdanji

By the time we cleared formalities and got onto our waiting coach at Baiyun Airport, we were already famished 😅

We dashed straight for Shunde (a district of Foshan city in Guangdong). 

Dim Sum @ Shunde Xiang Yun Sha Garden Hotel 顺德点心 • 香云纱园林酒店

When in Guangzhou or Shunde right... If not going for street food stalls, then the natural choice for breakfast would be yum cha i.e. morning tea. So, we had several yum cha sessions during our seven day Guangzhou & Shunde food tour. Of these, I like Xiang Yun Sha in Shunde the most.

Bingsheng Taste in Guangzhou near Haiyin Bridge 炳胜能品味(海印总店) ☏ +86 20 3428 6910

When come to Shunde and Guangzhou, of course, must enjoy their iconic raw fish or yee sang 鱼生 dish. 

Liao Neng Guan Private Kitchen in Shunde 𠮩𠹌私房菜 ☏+86 757 2261 0717

Seven days in Guangzhou, with mostly food on the agenda. Some hits, some miss, not every meal was satisfying - of course, right? 

Wild Goose Chase • 5 Famous Roast Goose in Guangzhou & Shunde 𠮩𠹌私房菜 • 德云居饭馆 • 鹅公村 • 同福酒家 • 顺德火焰醉鹅坊

Goose is not sold in Singapore, so when we visited Guangzhou & Shunde recently, goose was high on our bucket list.

Bamboo Wanton Noodle in Guangzhou by Chang Ping & Han Ji 广州常平竹升云吞面 • 汉记面馆

As a wanton noodle lover, one of the things I look forward to was to taste the "authentic" Cantonese food icon in China's Guangdong province, the home of the dish.

But, when I was in Guangzhou city, I didn't see any shop with the Wanton Noodle 云吞面 signage. I did, however, come across a few Bamboo Noodle shops 竹升面. What we call wanton noodle around the world, is mostly known as bamboo noodle in Guangzhou.

Roots of Greatness of Cantonese Cuisine 广府菜

What makes 粤菜, the cuisine of Guangdong Province, one of the Eight Great Cuisines of China? 

The one word answer is diversity. 

Guangdong has diversity of food ingredients and a melting pot of many different culinary traditions. 

*Guangdong cuisine 粤菜 is the cuisine of Guangdong Province which includes Cantonese cuisine, Hakka cuisine and the cuisine of Chaoshan (Teochew), etc. This article is about Cantonese cuisine 广府菜, the cuisine of the Pearl River Delta which includes the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau.