A city of over 15 million people

With enough food for a lifetime

Home of Cantonese cuisine and dim sum

This is where it all happens

And I came here for one reason only

To eat

This place is a food lovers heaven

and I’m here to try my top 7 dishes you must try in Guangzhou

Lets go

Let’s start of with number 7

A fish skin salad that locals line up down the street for

Just look at this

This is super unique

Fresh water fish skin is boiled

And mixed into a salad bowl

Full of soy sauce

Onions

Cilantro

Ginger

Sprinkle some sesame

And peanuts on there

BOOM!

Fish skin!

Let’s take a look

Look at that!

It’s like slimy and crunchy at the same time

And there is a strong sesame flavor in there

And a strong cilantro flavor in there

This happens every time

And now on to number 6

Cheung fen

This is rice flour water

Laid down over a cheesecloth

Covered in seasoned beef, pork, or shrimp

And steamed

Then it’s peeled off

Rolled up

Chopped

And covered in soy sauce

Juicy and to die for

Let’s try that out

You can taste a bit of pork and shrimp flavor

Mixed throughout there

The rice flour noodle is quite gooey and soft

Number 5

This famous chicken dish in Southern China

Is best with some side dishes

Like fried rice noodles with beef

Or a bowl of sweet red date spare ribs

This chicken is whole

And boiled in seasoned water

Before being submerged in cool water

To give it’s skin a nice and firm texture

Look at the skin on there!

Apparently that’s the secret!

I’m going to dip it in some garlic onion sauce

Oh yeah

Ok let’s try it out

The chicken is really smooth

That’s probably the softest chicken I’ve ever had

And now a true classic for number four

It’s found on nearly every street corner

Roasted fatty honey barbecue pork

AKA cha shao

This is next level heaven

Look at that!

I can’t speak

I just have to try it

Look at that fatty roast barbecue pork

It’s like dripping with goo

It’s like sweet and bbq combined

And fatty and lean

And crispy and soft

That’s heaven

Top 3!

Hole in the wall noodles

You can’t go wrong

The best I had was a bowl of beef brisket noodle soup

At a packed out hole in the wall

Get a nice piece of beef

And noodle in there

Wow!

I was not expecting that!

That beef is almost tangy

A little sweet

And salty

It has a nice kick to it

And those noodles are hand made!

Number two was insane!

At a cantonese seafood restaurant

The selection of fish here

At the legendary hongxing restaurant

Made this spot feel more like an aquarium than a restaurant

They had everything

From some rare and controversial foods

Like crocodiles

Snakes

Water beetles

Chicken testicles

Coral groupers

Turtles

And sharks fin soup

To some more common seafoods

Like Boston lobsters

And Alaskan crabs

I have a beautiful Alaskan King Crab here

I’m at the most insane seafood restaurant in Guangzhou

It’s like an aquarium

It’s like a fish pet store

There’s so much crazy stuff here

My mind is blown

We are going to have an Alaskan King Crab

Let’s check it out

Oh my god

It’s huge!

Look at this

This is a huge

High class feast

At a Guangdong style seafood restaurant

I’ve got an Alaskan king crab

It looks amazing

I have xiu mai here

And ha gao dim sum

Look at that

Let’s just break that off

Oh god

That’s insane

It’s dripping with juice

Take me home baby

Wow

This garlic dip is actually a little peanutty

Now we’re finally here at number one

You knew it

It’s dim sum

The dim sum in Guangzhou is legendary

And worth the flight alone

I sampled enough dim sum for four people

Each dish bringing me closer to my dim sum heaven

I am beyond excited right now

I have a huge dim sum breakfast feast here in Guangzhou

Where to begin?

I am probably going to go for my favorite right away

This is ha gao

Which is basically like rice flour dumplings

Wrapped over shrimp and pork fat

Look at that sticky rice

This is lotus leaf rice

Filled with egg yolk

Dried scallop

Mushroom

Chestnut

And Chicken

i’m going to try that out

The lotus leaf

That earthiness is steamed through the rice

And it almost has an umami mouthfeel to it

It just warms your mouth

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