The food industry of Zhuhai is distinctive. Wine shops and tea houses are everywhere, and only the restaurants attached to hotels have more than 20 thousand seats. You can find food of the eight cuisine of western style, of royal feast, and of Chinese medicine feast all in Zhuhai. Seafood plays an important role in Guangdong Cuisine and it makes the most distinctive dishes in Zhuhai's Chinese food. You can find Beijing, Sichuan, Chaozhou,Suzhou and Taiwan cuisine all over the restaurants. You can find feast of Qing Dynasty and Man Han Quanximodeled after the ancient tradition too. Guangdong Cuisine makes a full use of the rich resource of seafood, so the food tastes great and is not expensive. They use all kinds of resources and create many modern and typical southern dishes. Their food has the characteristic of five tastes: delicious, soft, fat, dense, pliable, and six flavors-sour, sweet, bitter, salty, spicy and fresh, During cooking, the cooks fry them in sallow oil, fry them in deep fat oil, braise them and stew them to make them cool, plain, fresh, and crisp as well as having graceful plain colors. The famous dishes of Zhuhai are "Zhuhai Rewei Pigeon", "Piglet Stew", "Peacock Haliotis Gigantea", "Silver Den with Rock Oyster" and so on.
Seafood Snack Stand
They are mainly seen in streets and mostly sell seafood as well as snakes or birds. Gongbei's streets have more and better seafood snack stands. Eating in a snack stand, you can enjoy the freedom and transparency, because you can choose the material yourself and let the cook make it at will and then eat them while enjoying the street scenes. In this way, you can taste every dish to the full without thinking about time. If night comes, you needn't worry. The stands serve at least till midnight, some even have all-night service, so you can have your table put under the trees or at the crossroad to enjoy the night winds with good smell of wine and dish and the beautiful moonlight shining with the neon lights. That's the real demeanor of eating in south of Guangdong.
Royal Restaurant
Located at the New Yuanming Palace, constructed in the style of the palace of Qing Dynasty, the Royal Restaurant covers an area of 13,000 Square meters. The whole building, like the Chinese character" 回 "is divided into four parts, Wanqu Food Street, Wanjing Tower, Wanxin Tea-house and Wanshou Palace. Wanqu Food Street imitates the place where the royal family members enjoyed popular food and snacks. Wanjing Tower receives tourists in-group and holds large banquets. Wanxi Tea-house provides tea and programs of entertainment, while at Wanshou Palace, you could enjoy the Imperial food of Qing Dynasty.
Zhuhai has famous cuisine like Silver Den with Rock Oyster, Peacock Halitosis Gigantea, Teng Lakes' Flour Lotus Root, and other dishes made of sea chestnut, captain's cap, dog-paw-like spiral shell and other sea food that attracted many tourists to try and a special cuisine made of local specialty--crop bug. The cook fry, steam and stew the bug to make it good, so the dish shows completely the local distinction.?
