2010年8月20日星期五

Top 10 Guangzhou Bars


NO.1 Baby Face
Guangzhou's Baby Face has set a new level of local nightlife chic. There, not only the dance floor moves like none other in Guangzhou, but also DJs know how to set the groove and keep it there. Sure it's all a tad pretentious, but what good club isn't? If you want a big party scene with a serious sound system to dance yourself into oblivion, this is exactly the place. If they could bring in more big name DJs, this club could change the party landscape of Guangzhou.
Add: 83 Chang Di Dama Road, Yue Xiu District,
Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83355771

NO.2 Amigo
If nothing to do at night then Amigo is a safe option. There’s nothing special about the place, but the atmosphere is nice enough and the staff are friendly. An interesting touch here is the large projector screen showing Tom and Jerry cartoons – a great change from the usual MTV or Fashion TV displays. There are also some surprisingly funny posters in the bathrooms. Amigo maybe isn’t worth seeking out if you’re not in the area, but is a perfectly acceptable choice if you’ve come to check out Bai-E-Tan.
Add: B03  Bai E Tan Bar Street, Li Wan District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-81558173


NO.3 SOHO
This is sure to thrill you with all its good house music and an outdoor seating area if you want to escape all the noise inside. From the very moment you will travel through the 60's style corridors, to the stairs and landing, and you are bound to be mesmerized. The starting point of your SoHo experience will be marked by a handcrafted, illuminated antique butterfly. The interiors are concerned, the main bar area is fashioned like bars in New York – in the quintessential SoHo style.
Add: 89 Chang Di Dama Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83195095

NO.4 Tang Club
Tang Club is where "party" meets "artsy." Both locals and foreigners flock here to be entertained by live bands and DJs. They accept local bank cards, which is lucky as beers come in at a relatively CNY40.
Add: 1 Jian She Liu Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83841638

NO.5 New Era
It is Very loud, very crowded, very cool, and very young. The average age here is not much above from high school (if even that), and there are a lot of kids who can't seem to handle their alcohol stumbling around outside. But the place is indeed hopping and not just with kiddies. Some of the girls inside are actually of legal age.
Add: 92 Zhongshan Er Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83813327

NO.6 Bound Club
Bound Club became one of famous and stylish clubs in Guangzhou, more and more fashion young people join us for party and having fun every weekend, you can find all kind of people from different country; people said cellar is more western style, but no matter what, our goal is having fun! Come and join us, let's get the party started!
Add: 183 YanJiang Xi Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83332233


NO.7 Hei Hei Club
Stepping into "Hei Hei Club", its space presented the very colorful, fashionable thinking and the viiv rhythm of music beats, which makes your body generates energy of motion form the natural to dance with the rhythms. The inspired ray of lights, the gorgeous colors, the illusionary glass mirrors and the spacious and comfortable red sofas refract the charming of night. The sparkling and colorful lighting wall is most eye-catching. Make your own dance steps all identify with the  rhythmic music and even with the lighting shadow at your side and beneath, also involuntarily enjoy along with the music, and show up the dynamic and spontaneous Hip-Hop.
Add: 153 Yan Jiiang Xi Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-81323102

NO.8 The Cellar
The crowd consists of locals as well as many foreigners that have but one goal in mind, that’s to have fun. Since renovation in September 2007, the atmosphere of the club has become one of a kind with beautiful girls and hot men dancing threw out the night. The interior includes soft lounges and VIP rooms with giant floor to ceiling windows and fantastic acoustic facilities. Every week the Cellar hosts new parties that Guangzhou has never seen before and tries to include new Dj’s and fresh themes.
Add: 14 Jian She Liu Road, Yue Xiu District,       
Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83809990

NO.9 F4
F4 is a concentration camp of cool boys and hot girls, free combination with Bar and Disco. HK DJ plays the most popular disc according to your excitement, beauty Dancer and passion Band bring you the revelry, and it can accommodate thousands of people for a rave party. Beauty, shallowness, self-confidence and happiness are engulfed in a warm and sensational music. In the huge space, what you see are the heads, unable to look the end. Although it is divided bar form Disco, the distinction is not obvious. The crowd move among the sofa, bar counter and dance floor, HK DJ only regulates music in pace with the on-site atmosphere. The later, the more energetically, the boys and girls push to the dance floor along with the Dancer, sway their bodies full of vitality, without hearing each other’s voices.
Add: 1/F,Da Bao Palza,  109 Liu Hua Road, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-86668070


NO.10 The Place Ⅰ
The PlaceⅠis the combination with fresh、hot show bar ,elegant style wine bar and cigar club. It likes innovation, but maintains to play with fashion, health, literacy, the varied men and women, the marrow of life are all in it. . The show bar downstairs emphasizes the atmosphere, Hard Rock music is the major, coupled with Indian and Latin, and the local Band gives the superb performance every night. The music upstairs is mainly on Saxophone and piano, which is reduced to be a wine and cigar club. The PlaceⅠadvocates playing with fashion, health and literacy. It plans series of stylish, relaxed programmes, for example, making humorous drama to express a life full of experiences, or all the attendants are wearing the latest season’s fashion to turn show bar into a fashion bar .
Add: 4 He Ping Road, Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
Tel: +86-20-83575833

2010年8月19日星期四

Top 10 Guangzhou Breakfasts

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Prawn dumplings
Just as you must have a fragrant coffee with your breakfast,people of Guangzhou must order a portion of delicate prawn dumpling for the morning tea. Prawn dumpling is one kind of Cantonese Dim Sum with a long history, which the wrapper is made of the whole wheat flavor, and the stuffing is made of prawn, port, and tender bamboo shoots. It is wrapped as a dumpling-shape and is steamed to be the final step. Because of its curved shape like a comb, it is also called curved comb dumplings. Excellent prawn dumpling has not only soft and refreshing wrapper, which is crystal and translucent with visible stuffing, but also delicious stfuffing with exquisite shape, which is delicious and tempting because it is so smooth and fresh.


Shaomai/Shiumai

Shaomai is one kind of Dim Sum, which is indispensible while people of Guangzhou is having the morning tea. Shaomai, which is steamed in a special cage with dough as the wrapper, wrapping with stuffing. It has the fluffy top, flowery folding beam waist, petite exquisite shape which makes it beautiful and delicious. And it has diverse styles, such as shrimp Shaomai, beef Shaomai, Offal Shaomai, fish Shaomai, pork Shaomai and quail egg Shaomai, and etc., which is all up to your own choice.



Roasted Pork Bun

roasted pork, which is the stuffing, in a cooking way of steaming. The bun wrapper with a slight fissure is like the smile sign of Roasted Pork Bun, inviting you to savor its exquisite "content.” Take just one bite, jelly inside roasted pork bun will burst out pork gravy, savory with palatable sweet and salty, which will make people a joy for ever.





Egg tart

Egg tarts, Prawn dumpling, Shaomai, Cantonese Roasted Pork Bun are named as “Four emperors” for Cantonese morning tea. Tart is from the English word "tart" according to its pronounciation, which refers to the filling exposed pie. The egg tart is baked after sugar and eggs are mixed into egg pulp, and then are poured into the pie mold. The tart shell is crispy, the filling is the sweet and soft yellow egg pulp. With crispy shell, soft filling, and burst of eggs wafted around, which is the most tantalizing part of the egg tart.



Rice Loaf with Chicken
If we say that Prawn Dumpling and Shaomai have the same delicate weights as their exquisite appearances, then Rice Loaf with Chicken is one kind of delicious Dim Sum, which allows you to feel the faint scent of lotus leaf and to fill your stomach at the same time. Glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf, with putting chicken, pork, salted egg yolk, mushrooms, and etc. in the center, and then put it in for steaming. While it comes out, the rice is soft, glossy, and smooth, the filling is rich and abundant. And that faint scent of the lotus leaf makes it not greasy even with ample materials. Therefore, it is adored by the majority of diners.






Pan Tang Water Chestnut Cake

Willing to eat the most authentic water chestnut cake, Guangzhou Pan Xi Restaurant is where you should go for its Pan Tang water chestnut cake. Chestnut powder, the local specialty has been adopted to be the raw material used with blaze to steam for the Pan Tang water chestnut cake. The Cake has golden color and transparent body, which is smooth and delicious in mouth, and the unique fragrance of water chestnut are left in the mouth after eating. In a sunny afternoon, order a pot of tea, taste of a dish of Pan Tang water chestnut cake, you'll fall in love with such a Cantonese style afternoon tea.



Chicken Feet

Chicken feet is the "chicken claw" is one of the Dim Sum that Cantonese must order for their morning tea. High-quality chicken feet is with crimson color, swollen and wrinkled cortex. Therefore, it is also called wrinkled chicken feet. It is full of euryale ferox juice, which offers a sense of enema. While eating, the skin is easily off the bone and has a taste of soft and smooth, which makes it suitable for both adults and children.




Wedding Rice Noodles with Dried Radish and Roasted Goose

Those, who love to Guangzhou Restaurant for morning tea, know that they must give a try to the Wedding Rice Noodles with dried Radish and Roasted Goose there. The noodles are 100% hand-made, which are soaked into the double stewed soup of pig bones, covered with a layer of translucent roasted goose in bright pink. It allows you not only to feel the exquisite smooth of the noodles, but also the soothing of double stewed soup, moreover, the venison flavor of the goose all at one try. Eat it with chopped green onion and shredded carrots will bring a even more wonderful and delux taste!



Steamed Pork Ribs with Taros

Taro steamed pork ribs is one kind of traditional Cantonese style Dim Sum. Although its appearance is not as exquisite as Prawn dumpling and Shaomai, and the cooking is not as dainty as Roasted Pork Bun and Water Chestnut cake, while looking at the soft taros soaked in gravy, the juicy crystal ribs with a plume of steam, which is expiring bursts of meat. How can you resist such a simple and mass daintiness if you are a food lover?




Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling
It is said that Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling is created by a maid named Sister Er from Xi Guan, Guangzhou, who is beautiful with ingenuity. Materials used for Sister Er’s Steamed Dumpling are similar to Prawn Dumpling, but Sister Er’s has a bigger shape and richer fillings. Moreover, it has more ample way to serve than Prawn Dumpling, which means it can be steamed or deep fried. Due to the additional parsley, Crab and other ingredients, its taste is very unique and it is still popular as the exquisite Dim Sum in those major restaurants.



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