Nanning Food

When you're in Nanning it would be a pity not to try the local food specialties: Rice wrapped in lotus leaf (Heye mifan) and Ali dog hotpot (Ali gourou huoguo) are the must in summer and autumn respectively. So close to Vietnam, Vietnamese food, such as noodles, soups and burgers are also popular.

There are restaurants and night food markets on Hangzhou lu and Chaoyang lu. But at night, Zhongshan Lu is the most popular place for street stalls serving quick-fried shrimps, grilled chicken wings, steamed packets of lotus-wrapped zongzi with deliciously unusual fillings (a mix of pork, beans and sometimes shredded coconut), dog hotpot and plates of juicy snails. 100m down from the Yongjiang Bridge on the north bank, stairs lead down to waterfront hotpot tables under an open-sided awning with night views of the bridge. For yum cha and light Chinese meals, there's an excellent place two minutes east of the Nanning Hotel on Gonghe Lu. Roughly opposite the Nanning Hotel, there is a group of inexpensive restaurants serving Cantonese stir-fries, roast duck and chicken. They also have tasty fish casseroles and rice claypots at lunchtime.

Every year, a Chinese Food Festival is held in Nanning. Food lovers can enjoy themselves there by eating their way through China in a day.

Even a McDonald's can be found at 39, Chaoyang Lu, on the first floor of the Nanning Department Store.

Local fruits includes mango, banana, lychee, plum, longan and pineapple.

The old friend noodle (老友面)

It is the wheaten food with a history of one hundred years. With the refined noodles, mix with and produce fragrant the end of garlic, fermented soya bean, hot pepper, impractical bamboo shoot, the end of beef, pepper powder, etc., boil into a bowl of hot noodles. Tough friend wheaten food whet the appetite and dispel cold, it welcomes to be but prolonged deeply by customer of the restaurant.

Eight-treasured glutinous rice (八宝饭)

Make polished glutinous rice bubble wet, mix with edible oil, mung bean, lily, lotus seeds, gingko, candied date, mountain yellow skin, wax gourd candy, etc. nearly ten kinds raw materials, steam and is well done. With it fragrance spread and slip softly, agreeably sweet and remarkable.

Lemon duck (柠檬鸭)

It is the characteristic cooked food of the area of Wuming county. The clean duck will cut one after its method will be killed, enter pan fry until six familiar to put to cut sour hot pepper, sour mustard head, sour ginger, sour lemon, smoked plum, ginger and mashed garlic of silk again, cook over a slow fire, eight well done, then put salt Zhi, drench, have sesame oil can produce pan after fry well done.