A short food stop in Guangzhou

GuangZhou became a hunt for Michelin Star restaurant. For Zaine who somehow was willing to spend money eating at Michilin Star restaurant but not on normal street restaurant that was slightly pricy. I somehow could not understand the logic but was not going to turn down good food even though it was AA.

Guangzhou at Night

Guangzhou

Beijing lu Pedestrian Street - Guangzhou

First night in Guangzhou and we had to hunt down the cheap hostel ended up having to book it online so we could get the contact number out. As I suspected it was a smoking hostel but this one was at least clean. We stayed one night for RMB 49 and shifted the next day to downtown Guangzhou as the hostel was quite a distance away.

Thats the downside of a new big city, without knowing where the main spot is, sometimes the first night can be really out of the way if just looking via price. On may it looked quite close but when taking the subway for 45 mintues to get anywhere means it was really a time waster.

Four Season Pavilion - Run Restaurant

Four Season Pavilion - Run Restaurant

We shifted to downtown now that we know the layout of the city after exploring on the first night. We found a proper hostel too and it was only RMB 50. The irony. So second day in Guangzhou was spend leaving the first hostel in the morning and just going stright to the second Michelin Star restaurant which was a tim sum place set at the White Swan Hotel.

White Swan Hotel Guangzhou - Jade River Restaurant

White Swan Hotel Guangzhou - Jade River Restaurant

White Swan Hotel Guangzhou - Jade River Restaurant

After that we hunt down the hostel and basicly just walked all over the downtown area even crossing the pearl river via boat and ended up grabbing a taxi back to Beijing Lu pedestrian street for dinner.

This time it was a Michilin Honor restaurant which was not on Zaine app nor any map but somehow it was plastered all over the restaurant door of their award. The food was delicious and barely half the price of the Michilin Star restaurant.

God of Braised Pot

God of Braised Pot

God of Braised Pot

God of Braised Pot

Two night in Guangzhou, no tourist sites and just basicly walking around wandering aimlessly. It was time to do the Visa run so I bid farewell to Zaine as we part ways and headed out early in the morning to catch a train to Hong Kong.

Traveled on: Dec 2023