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Eating and drinking
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Cooking in Wuhan
reflects the city's position midway between Shanghai and Chongqing, and restaurants here offer a good balance of eastern-style steamed and braised dishes - particularly
fish and shellfish
- along with some seriously spicy Sichuanese food. There's also a strong
snacking
tradition in town, and many places specialize in designer dumplings: various types of
shaomai;
soup buns
or
tangbao,
which tend to burst messily, much to the amusement of other diners; and
doupi
, bean-paste omelettes. Even formal restaurants are inexpensive, and many have first-floor canteens where you can eat local staples very cheaply. Other street food can be sampled at nondescript restaurants and
food stalls
around Zhongshan Dadao and Jianghan Lu in the old concession area of Hankou; and the train stations at Hankou and Wuchang also have some good budget places, serving mostly vegetable and fish dishes. Don't expect to find English signs or menus anywhere.
Western food
is beginning to make inroads in Wuhan:
KFC
outlets have reached plague proportions in Hankou, and several of the upmarket hotels have Western-style restaurants. The
Holiday Inn
's ground-floor
coffee shop
also offers chocolate and cream confections at A?15 a piece; or it's A?38 a person for afternoon tea and cakes. Other useful information
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