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Eating and drinking
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Perhaps because Haikou is essentially a mainland Chinese colony, food here is not as exotic as you'd hope for. The quantity and variety of ingredients on display at market stalls is promising: green, unhusked coconuts (sold as a drink, but seldom used in cooking); thick fish steaks, mussels, eels, crab and prawns; mangoes, pineapples, bananas, watermelons, guavas, plums, star fruit and jak fruit; and, everywhere, piles of seasonal green vegetables. But somehow, these never make it into
restaurants
, which - aside from hotels - are anyway in short supply. In the streets near the bus station - Daying Lu in particular - you'll find a number of inexpensive seafood and hotpot places:
Shuihou Doujiang Dawang,
open 24-hours on the corner of Jinchang Lu, has excellent
shuijiao,
rice packets, buns and soya milk; while east along Daying Lu,
Wuge Paidang
is a fine, mid-price seafood and fowl restaurant.
Do & Me Fried Chicken,
next to the
Overseas Chinese Hotel,
also has acceptable burgers, while
Tiantian,
a small bar just west of the
Nanhai Hotel,
has the best coffee and cakes in town. Other useful information
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