All Chinese Variety

Ba Fang Xi Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant 八方溪缘Address: No. 10 B8 , Kehua Road South, Wuhou District, Chengdu.(Juction of Kehua Road South and South Railway Station Road East, near the 2.5 Ring Road Bus Station and 500m from Angel Hospital)地址：成都市武侯区科华南路10号附8号城南驿站（2.5环外侧火车南站东路公交站台旁）Tel: 028-69281788    028-68964382  Read more...

Spanish Restaurant. Paella, tapas, 5J Cino Jotas and other Spanish cuisines.Address： No. 9 -3 South Tongzilin RdTel： 18608011839 Read more...

Small things really do come in good small packages at Yu Zhi Lan, with only 18 seats, to serve showcase the fine ingredients they use with their traditional Sichuan technique.Chef Lan Guijun is known for his minimalist but masterful interpretations of Sichuan food, each details of the restaurant and menu is carefully thought out and serves a purpose. This was Read more...

This Yulin spot is popular with both locals and visitors to Chengdu. It serves all the Chengdu classics and was one of the places Anthony Bourdain visited on his recent visit to Chengdu. Too spicy for a French manOur food writer Jordan Porter from Chengdu Food Tours gives us his opinion on the place:“In his ‘quest to set Eric’s perfect hair Read more...

This Tian Shui Mian and Dan Dan Mian restaurant serves a number of small portions of local snacks and delicacies as well as cold chuan chuan. Anthony Bourdain visited this chain during his 2016 show for CNN Parts Unknown, and our food correspondent Jordan Porter lets us know here what he thinks of the place.Sample the sweet pea-nutty delights of Read more...

A’Re Vegetarian RestaurantA’ Re Tibetan restaurant founded by A’ Re (pronounced Ah-Rer) was born in a very alluring and remote Tibetan valley, Danba. Danba is a beautiful Tibetan gem hidden in the Gyarong valley of Sichuan. She opened her first Tibetan restaurant in Chengdu in 2000, now she has four restaurants (including a vegetarian restaurant) near Wuhou Temple/little Tibet. She also newly Read more...

A’Re Flagship Restaurant and CaféA’ Re Tibetan restaurant founded by A’ Re (pronounced Ah-Rer) was born in a very alluring and remote Tibetan valley, Danba. Danba is a beautiful Tibetan gem hidden in the Gyarong valley of Sichuan. She opened her first Tibetan restaurant in Chengdu in 2000, now she has four restaurants (including a vegetarian restaurant) near Wuhou Temple/little Tibet. Read more...

Longjiang Pig footHuaxing East is one of the town’s best local food streets and it is easy to get distracted among all the choices. We first noticed this spot from the smell, a sweet soy sauce and meaty fragrance that caught up with us from about half a block away. We followed our noses back to a woman at a Read more...

Jade Garden by MaximCantonese restaurants are not lacking in Chengdu, but big name Hong Kong restaurants serving up classic Cantonese food are much rarer. We dropped into Maxim’s for lunch because we wanted dim sum (main menu only after 5:30) and ordered a signature dish of shrimp in egg white, a crispy skinned chicken stuffed with shrimp paste and a Read more...

Taoyuan Village桃园眷村双庆路万年城北庭 1F1039am-10pmWe dropped into this hot new spot in the Wannianxiang shopping centre, which serves up Taiwanese style breakfast and snacks. The breakfast offerings are soymilk and youtiao, sandwiches described as shao bing, and rice wraps. Our main reason for making the trek across town to check the place out was to try the salty soy milk, (咸豆浆), which Read more...

Grandpa Wang’s Barbecue王大爷烧烤， 肖家河店肖家河兴蓉街 31号6 pm-1:30 am85105249Grandpa Wang’s is a legendary barbecue restaurant in northwest Chengdu that spawned itself into a chain a couple of years back. We always meant to visit the original, but since good barbecue is found in almost every neighbourhood in town, we never got around to it. We finally dropped in on their Xiaojiahe branch Read more...

Spice Bazaar Xinjiang Cuisine香料集市新疆餐厅Simple and tasteful Uyghur dishes in a space with a “Modern Asian” design aesthetic. “Silk road” style arts and crafts from Kashgar, like carpets and copperware, are on display around the restaurant. The menu is comprised of several Xinjiang standards like da pan ji, rice pilaf and lamb skewers, and a fair amount of unconventional dishes like Read more...

Yu Tian 雨田Fly restaurants are usually modest neighbourhood or working lunch places, but a very good one has the power to transcend its area and become a destination in its own right. Of these, Ming Ting is probably the biggest draw in town, but there are no contenders with Yu Tian for number two. Yu Tian made news earlier this year Read more...

Yu Family Kitchen Restaurant 喻家厨房We dropped in to check out the new location of Yu Family Kitchen, which moved from Kuanzhai Alley down to Huayang earlier this year. The cold dishes of vegetables, tofu and pickles that started off our 20+ course lunch displayed precise knife work and cooking skill and served as palate cleansers between some of the other Read more...

Sun Kee 香港新记茶餐厅Large menu with all the basics and a few dim sum. We find ourselves timing trips downtown so that we can stop in for their excellent value afternoon tea – fried rice, a barbecue plate, or noodles plus a drink for not much more than we would pay at a fast food place.Address: Large smoking area. 2/F, Champagne Read more...

Ruxuan Seafood 如轩Located by the first ring road near Computer City, this inconspicuous mid-priced Guangdong restaurant is well worth a visit for those wanting to take a break from Sichuanese. It’s great for small or big parties, specializing in seafood but also doing a wide range of meat and vegetable standards. Make sure to try the excellent congee, though their Read more...

Shu Jiu Xiang 蜀九香火锅酒楼One of Chengdu’s best loved hot pot houses serves up fresh and beautifully presented ingredients in spicy hot or rich mild soup base. Try the goose intestine. We also like their snacks. Except for the 4 central located ones listed below, there are 20 more locations throughout town.19 Wuhouci Ave. 武侯祠大街19号(耍都), 11:30am – 10:30pm, 85576655, www.shujiuxiang.com;8 New Read more...

Qin Shan Zhai 钦善斋Two floors of a very traditional restaurant serving medicinal foods. Customers can choose hot pot or other dishes. Menu is illustrated and has English. A good choice for visitors to Wuhou Temple.Address: 247 Wuhou Temple Main St. 武侯祠大街247号,Tel.: (028)85053333, (028)85098875,Time: 10am – 2pm; 5pm – 9pm Read more...

Chi Wei Xian Restaurant 翅味鲜Located not far from Tianfu square on a strip of “Cell Phone” street, this branch of a very popular local chain specializes in ‘gan guo’, or dry pot. It’s spicy and not to be missed. Popular with local families and young adults alike, it’s lively atmosphere and hearty, rapidly-dished out local dishes provide for a very Read more...