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Eating and drinking
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The local
food
is one of Xiamen's assets, with plenty of fresh fish and seafood, particularly oysters, crabs and prawns, and a liberal use of
peanuts
. A good place to try the town's peanut snacks is the
Huangzehe Huashengtang Dian
(
Sweet Peanut Shop)
on Zhongshan Lu, south side, a few minutes west of Siming Lu. Sweet peanut soup is served with everything, and there are also excellent steamed buns stuffed with peanut.
Seafood restaurants
abound on Gulangyu, and in the lanes around the
Lujiang
and
Donghai
hotels; inside the
Lujiang
itself, you can have excellent
dim sum
breakfasts or lunches on the lower floor, while upstairs there's a very pleasant rooftop restaurant/cafe overlooking the sea. The
Holiday Inn
serves an evening buffet dinner which is relatively inexpensive, if unexciting, at ?125 per head. The
vegetarian restaurant
at Nanputuo Si is excellent, but expensive: if you can't read the Chinese menu at the "Meal Booking Office", go for one of the set meals at ?30-50 a person - just indicate to the office staff how much you want to pay. Other useful information
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