Using Chinese apps to hunt down MOUTH-WATERING food in Guangzhou CHINA

After an incredible time in Vietnam we traveled over to Peter's country of birth, CHINA! The first city we visited was Guangzhou, also known as Canton. What better way to celebrate than with some mouth watering food ;)

Even though Guangzhou is China's 5th largest city with a population of 14M people, English isn't as commonly found or spoken as China's other large cities like Beijing and Shanghai. As some of you might know too, a lot of western apps that we're use to is also blocked in China (like all Google apps, Youtube, Facebook etc) so if you want to get by, Chinese apps definitely come in handy.

But Chinese apps are pretty much always in Chinese which makes things a little tricky for people who can't read Chinese like us. We have about a toddler's Chinese literacy level so I guess it's better than nothing 😅

We'll cover more on this topic in a future "what you need to know before coming to China" episode, but basically we used Dianping to find high rated restaurants in Guangzhou and WeChat to put orders through like at the very first place we had a proper meal. Thankfully Peter had a Chinese sim/mobile number thanks to Dad because we found that it was sometimes required for certain apps to work. It was a bit of a struggle to fumble our way through but we managed somehow!

We'll do our best to provide restaurant names and addresses, but these will often have Chinese in them too so if you have the apps you'll be able to enter them in and use DiDi-Rider (Uber equivalent in China) to get to the locations.

When in Guangzhou, you absolutely have to have yum cha and dim sum, so for our first stop we went to Dian Dou De (Ju FuLou). Famous for their yum cha, this was our very first encounter with needing to order via WeChat.

Restaurant name: 点都德
Pinyin pronounciation: Diǎn dōu dé
Address: 广东省-广州市-越秀区-惠福东路470号

Next up we found an amazing bakery place just from walking around on the street. The best baked goods Peter has ever had! So good was this bakery in Guangzhou China that we went back for seconds.

Restaurant name: 日美高级西饼屋
Pinyin pronunciation: Rì měi gāojí xī bǐng wū
Address: 广东省-广州市-荔湾区-和平西路29号

For the first time but not the last time we taste some beautiful roast geese and fish from a Michelin bib gourmand award winning local Canton restaurant.

Restaurant name: 向群饭店
Pinyin pronunciation: Xiàng qún fàndiàn
Address: 广东省-广州市-荔湾区-龙津东路857号

To round off these classic canton dishes Yen and I decided to go for some silky won ton noodles.
Restaurant name: 竹园竹升面
Pinyin pronunciation: Zhú yuán zhú shēng miàn
Address: 广东省-广州市-荔湾区-十八甫南路107号(广州酒家直下)

The next day just when we thought our meals and food in Guangzhou China couldn't get any better we tried the best clay pot rice we've ever had in our lives. The claypot rice at this Guangzhou restaurant was insanely delicious!

Restaurant name: 啫八
Pinyin pronunciation: Zhě bā
Address: 广东省-广州市-海珠区-滨江西路惠食佳172号

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