For most people outside Guangdong Province, the Taotaoju, Guangzhou, and Lianxiang Lou restaurants are known for their moon cakes. Yet for Cantonese, these restaurants, their pride, are a must.

Guangzhou is universally known for its excellent food. Cantonese cuisine, one of the Famous Eight in China, uses diverse and delicate materials, exotic spices, and various cooking skills.

Cantonese cuisine, as an epitome of Chinese food culture, is a mixture of tradition and modern, East and West. Basically, it is also a combination of local dishes from the different prefectures of Guangdong Province, or even from other provinces and abroad.

Cantonese dishes are often characterized with various unusual ingredients and materials.

In preparing the Guangdong cuisine, dozens of varieties of ingredients are often involved and more than 30 different kinds of cooking methods employed, such as frying, grilling, stewing, simmering, deep-frying, roasting, and braising.

Freshness is everything to the Guangdong cuisine. Apart from seafood, animals, insects and worms, flowers, and weeds are all made into dishes. There is a variety of Cantonese dim sum, sweet or salty. The delicious Cantonese-style dim sum served with tea offers a fresh flavor in leisure time. It is estimated that there are over 1,000 ways of making desserts in Guangzhou.

Most locals are gourmets. Scattered all over the city there are over 5,000 restaurants, teahouses and snack eateries, offering service around the clock.

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