Lydia restaurant
An Italian restaurant. Favorite place of foreign students and young chinese. The food is not as good and tasty as in Jenny's, but cheaper.
| This guide uses the following price ranges for a typical meal for one, including soft drink: | |
| Budget | Under ¥15 |
| Mid-range | ¥15-40 |
| Splurge | Over ¥40 |
Shandong cuisine is known as Lu cai named after the ancient Lu State and is one of the eight culinary traditions of China and a major influence on the present day food in northeastern China. Jinan cuisine represents a branch of Shandong cuisine famous for its soups.
There are the usual mediocre international fast food chains, plenty of street food, scores of little restaurants, etc. The easiest is either street food or one of the many buffets where you can see the food and order that way. Or if you want expensive and exotic eg Japanese, go to the 4-5 star hotels. There are some nice local restaurants, but if you can't read Chinese it is not worth the hassle and the free entertainment you provide to onlookers. Each restaurant seems to specialise in a style of cooking and a special dish or two. However, finding what you might like can be quite a challenge, as many restaurants don't have menus with pictures, and next to none have English menus. Some of the smaller places have a part of their menu printed into a large poster on the wall, with photos, and provides an easy way to get something you want.
Quanjude
A good roast duck restaurant
Dingy-looking restaurant street [Foshan Lu/ä½å±±è·¯]
Twists and turns for about 2 blocks. Despite the narrow and pitted road, there are some nice restaurants here.
Bbq places and beer
The muslim quarter of town. The food is fresh, as earlier in the day sheep where standing where you are now eating look for the red stain on the ground. You can't get fresher than that. However, the smell is off putting in the summer with no refridgeration and swarms of flies laying eggs in your about to be eaten lamb cat meat according to local news sources has been used in these places to boost profits and keep the cat population down.
Pakistani restaurant
Great restaurant, which Westerners seem to frequent.
Night market
Sidestreets full of food.
Xiaochi Cheng
A cluster of restaurants, cheap and expensive, different Chinese and western cuisines.
Da Guan Yuan
Big restaurant like Da Guan Yuan Beijing Duck and Gou Bu Li Baozi. Small snack stalls selling Jinan specialties including You Xuan and lamb skewers.