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AmoyMagic--Guide to Xiamen & Fujian
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S. Fujian (Mǐn Cài 闽菜�) Cuisine & Seafood
Restaurant Links Main Restaurant Page Asian Veggie Tails Chinese International ItalianMuslim (Halal) Junk Food Cafes Japanese Korean French Brazilian Indian Latin Minnan (S. Fujian)N. Fujian N.E. Fujian Cantonese Sichuan Hot Pot Chaozhou Shanghai Hunan & Hangzhou Hakka Anhui Noodles! Canine Cuisine This page adapted from "Amoy Magic--Guide to Xiamen" Please click links above for 100s of restaurants.

Hǎoqīngxiāng Restaurant 好清香酒楼 has delighted gastronomes from all over Southeast Asia since 1940 with its Southern Fujian snacks, including my wife’s favorite Zòngzi’s (粽子the pyramidal bamboo wrapped glutinous rice and meat dumplings), as well as garlic cake and meat onion dumplings, taro cake, and jelly fish (no peanut butter fish yet). Menu favorites include “High quality chicken stewed with Ginseng,” or “Low quality chicken boiled with dandeli-ons?” (for those on a budget?). Also try, “Braised squid and straw mushrooms,” “Lucky and sweet dew prawn ball,” “Glutinous rice porridge with sea crab,” “Deep-fried five-flavor rolls” (one of Xiàmén’s most famous delicacies), “Steamed crayfish,” “Deep-fried fish in squirrel shape” (I’m nuts about that one), “Deviled lion’s head” (Chinese meatball – excellent!), and “Deviled duck in dip-per shape.” Tel: 2209178
1st Location: #59 Húbīn Zhōng Lù 地址：湖滨中路59号
Buses: 30, 23, 10 Get off at Zhōngshān Hospital 中山医院)
2nd Location: #1 Zhōngshān Lù Dōnghǎi Hotel 6/F 中山路1号东海酒店6楼 Buses: any bus to harbor (Lúndù 轮渡)

Lùjiāng Hotel, 鹭江宾馆—on the harbor facing the Gulangyu Ferry Terminal. Lùjiāng’s Mǐnnán cuisine and “herbal” recipes have even been featured on American television. Also try their dimsum. Rooftop dining offers great view of Gǔlàngyǔ. Add: #54 Lùjiāng Lù (鹭江道54号) Tel: 2022922 x709 Buses: 2, 19, 27, 30

Xīnqiáo Hotel (Xīnqiáo Jiúdiàn 新侨酒店) The brochure says,
“To welcome all people at home and abroad, “Chun Hui Yuan” Chinese Restaurant would like to recommend you ‘Xin Qiao’ delicacies – Cold Spicy Pork Intestines, Iced Crab Meat in Chicken Soup, Drunk Pigeon w/Bear, Egg Roll in Laver, Jellyfish Salad w/Minced Chicken, together with dishes of Guang Dong typical, South China typical and hundreds of Xin Qiao morning teas.”

Yum. But these are delightful: “Shrimp w/Minced Taro,” “Wrapped Thin Pan-cake,” “Two flavor lobster,” “Dumpling stuffed with prawn.”
Add: No. 444 Zhōngshān Lù 中山路444号 Tel: 2038883
Buses: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 23, 45

City Hotel, Xiàmén 厦门宾馆, near Zhongshan Park, is famous for such local dishes as “Monk Climbing the Wall” (Fótiào Qiáng 佛跳墙), a tasty combina-tion of shark’s fin, abalone, sea cucumber, scallop, tendons, deng deng. Also try, “Sun rises from east mountain” (Ríchū Dōngshān 日出东山) or “Eastern Ocean Lobster,” (Dōnghǎi Lóngxiā东海龙虾).
Add: Xiàmén Bīnguǎn, Húyuán Lù, # 16, 厦门市虎园路16号
Tel: 2053333 Website: www.cityhotelxm.com
Buses: 19 or 27. Exit at Zhōngshān Park

Overseas Chinese Hotel (Huáqiáo Dàshà 华侨大厦) Famous for its Mǐnnán cuisine; try the “Beancurd braised with cucumber,” “Crescent crisp fragrant-flowered garlic cake,” “Xiamen pancakes,” or “Chicken roll in lotus shape.”
Tel: 2660888 Add: 70-74 Xīnhuá Lù 新华路70-74号 Off Zhōngshān Lù by Cultural Palace (Wénhuà Gōng 文化宫）www.xmhqhotel.com.cn

Xiamen Mandarin (Yuèhuá Jiúdiàn 悦华酒店 ) back in 1988 won its way into Lǎowài hearts and wallets with its Western Café’s macaroni ‘n cheese—the only authentic western food in Xiamen. We can now get foreign cuisine everywhere but its still hard to beat the Mandarin’s Chinese cuisine, ambience, or prices. Try “Dragon attending banquet” (fried lobster), “Deep-fried crab legs,” “Monk Jumps the Wall”, “Coin-shaped Crab Cake,” “Abalone embellished with radish ball,” “Flock of Birds (prawn) exposing to the sun” (exhibitionists?), and “Dev-iled roast eel.” Open 24 hrs.
Add: Hǔlǐ District, #101 Yuèhuá Lù 湖里区，悦华路101号
Tel: 6023333 Buses: #16, 80 www.xmmandarin.com

Mandarin Seaview, adjacent to the Exhibition Center, offers an extensive breakfast, lunch and dinner buffet. Check out some of their special promotions, like the recent Hakka Cuisine Festival. (Also French cuisine).

Mǔdān Restaurant, Sōngbǎi Branch (牡丹大酒楼(松柏店) (See “Cantonese” section)

Shūyǒu Seafood Restaurants （Shūyǒu Hǎixián Jiǔlóu 舒友海鲜酒楼), per-haps Xiamen’s finest, is a marriage of Sea World and Red Lobster. Select your favorite eel, fish, octopussies, squid, seaworms, sea urchins, shellfish, deng deng, from rows of fish tanks on the first floor, then ascend to the second floor dining rooms and wait for your victims to be served. Top quality food (top prices too). Website: www.shuyou.com

Shūyǒu Seafood Restaurant, Bīnběi Branch (湖滨北路),
Add: Bank of China Building 1-4/F Tel: 5098888 5095588
湖滨北路中行大厦裙楼1-4楼 Buses: 12, 36, 87, 98
Shūyǒu Seafood Restaurant, Victoria Branch
Add: 4/F N Building, Victoria Club, Bǎilùzhōu Tel: 5060199
白鹭洲维从利俱乐部N楼4层 Buses: 15, 86, 87, 88
Shūyǒu Seafood Restaurant, Húlǐ Branch 舒友海鲜大酒楼(湖里分店)
Add:#3 Huátài Lù 华泰路3号 Tel: 5687888 5689999

Nine Dragon Pool (Jiǔlóng Táng Shífǔ九龙塘食府) Delightful seaside dining in cabins converted from ship containers! Mǐnnán, Cantonese and seafood. Add: #49 Island Ring Road (Huándǎolù) 环岛路49号
Tel: 2515335 Buses: 2, 17, 22, 29 Behind Húli Hill Fort 胡里山炮台后面

South Seas Fishing Village (Nánhái Yúcūn 南海渔村), with 4 Xiàmén locations, serves S. Fújiàn (Mǐnnán) and Cantonese cuisines, as well as more sea creatures than Sea World.
The harbor location on Lùjiāng Lù sprawls forever, with hordes of live creatures crawling, slithering and sliding in and out of basins, aquariums and woks (probably dinner plates as well). I saw a small army of savory scorpions scaling a plastic bucket, and high tailed it before I kicked the bucket. Choose indoor or outdoor seating, then choose your victims.

South Seas Branches Lùjiāng Dào Branch (Lùjiāng Dào Diàn 鹭江道店)
Add: #418-6 S. Sīmíng Lù 思明南路418号之六 Tel: 2390288

Qiánpǔ Branch (Qiánpǔ Diàn 前埔店)
Add: #43-46 Héqián Lù, Qiánpǔ 前埔不夜城禾前路43-46号
Tel: 5912028

Exhibition Center Branch (Huǐzhǎn Diàn 会展店）
Add: Island Ring Road, Facing Exhibition Ctr. 会展中心对面环岛路旁 Tel: 5023188

Wǔyuán Bay Branch (Wǔyuánwān Diàn 五缘湾店）
Add: Wǔyuán Bay Specialty Market Street, near Wuyuan Bay Bridge 五缘湾特色商业街, 五缘湾大桥旁 Tel: 5789588

Golden Pond Seafood Restaurant (Lǐyú Mén Shífǔ 鲤鱼门食府)
Add: 1/F, Overseas Chinese Bldg. # 70-74 Xīnhuá Lù (Huáqiáo Dàshà 厦门华侨大厦, 新华路70-74号) Tel: 2113333 www.xmhqhotel.com.cn

Golden Pond Seafood, Soaring Goose Branch, 鲤鱼门食府（Hóngxiáng Diàn 鸿翔店）
Add: 3/F Húbīn Nánlù Hóngxiáng Mansion (湖滨南路鸿翔大厦三楼)
Tel: 5188867 Buses: 10, 27, 30, 45, 810, 811

King of Hot Pepper Kitchen (Làjiāo Wáng Shífǔ 辣椒王食府 Mǐnnán Cuisine; also Húnán, Sìchuān, Hakka (Kèjiā)
Add: Jīnji Tíng (Gold Chicken Pavilion) #46 Xīlín Lù Shop 11-15
(金鸡亭西林路46之11-15店面). Tel: 5982472
E-mail: xuehq@hotmail.com Buses: 5, 19, 26, 28, 30, 37, 44, 95, 202, 810 Vicinity of "Crouching Dragon District" (Wòlóng Xiǎochéng (卧龙晓城)

Bāshǔ Sìchuān Cuisine (Bāshǔ Chuáncài 巴蜀川菜)
Sìchuān, but also good Mǐnnán (try the spicy prawns)
Add: Liánhuā Intersection, opposite Xiāngjiāng Park (莲花路口, 香江花园正对面 Tel: 5136617 Buses: 3, 25, 23, 40, 45, 73, 85, 505

BeachComber’s Cuisine. Just outside XMU’s beach gate and just down the Island Ring Road, past Húlǐ Hill Fort, are small restaurants offering various Chi-nese cuisines and seafood. Great prices, great view. We like to eat on the roof (that doesn’t mean that everything’s on the house). Sip tea, read, take a swim, or just vegetate and enjoy the site of marvelous two-masted Chinese junks gliding gracefully through the waters between Xiamen and Taiwan-occupied Jimei Is-land (with binoculars you can watch KMT soldiers patrolling Jinmen Island). NIngde Xiapu has succulent seafood that is out of this world (of course, China is out of this world anyway)

Lin Duck House (Línjiā Yāzhuāng 林家鸭庄) In Sept. 1988 we had our very first meal in Xiàmén at Lin Duck House (by XMU, facing Nánpǔtuó Temple). Run by a Taiwanese family who also moved her in 1988, they have an English-Chinese menu of over 100 items, including many Mǐnnán specialties.

For the budget-conscious, (Susan Marie says “cheap”), I suggest the 5.50 Yuan “Pork Rice Special (Páigǔròufàn 排骨肉饭).” It’s a bowl of rice, tea egg, vegetables and Japanese tonkatsu (breaded pork cutlet)—for just over half a dol-lar! Also try chicken in fried taro-string nest, deep-fried squid, spicy Sìchuān tofu, Xiàmén style fried clams or oysters with egg… Phone for take-out: 2086666
Add: #418 or #412-2 Sīmíng Nánlù 思明南路418号或412-2号
Buses: 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 18, 21, 45

North Fújiàn Cuisine (Mǐnběi Cài 闽北菜)

Wǔyí Mtn. Country Kitchen (Wǔyí Nóngjiā 武夷农家) Natural foods, natural freshwater fish, wild vegetables; country-brewed rice wine.
Add: Xiàhé Lù #881 11-14 Qiānxǐ Park
(厦禾路千禧园881号11-14) Tel: 5814111, 5814222

Northeast Fújiàn Cuisine (Mǐndōng Cài 闽东菜)

Mǐndōng Tàilǎo Restaurant (闽东太姥酒楼)
Add: 323-17 Xiàhé Commercial Center; opposite #6 middle school 厦禾商厦323之17六中对面 Tel: 2284615