Eating is a real pleasure in Yangzhou if you know where to look. The best- known restaurant in town is the Fuchun Tea House, down a small alley called Dexingqiao running east off Guoqing Lu - there¡¯s a big sign suspended over the alley entrance.
A plate of ten different kinds of dumpling here costs RMB28; other specialities include doufu gansi (dried shreds of tofu) and qin2shao xiaren (fried shrimps). There¡¯s another branch beside the Ge Yuan. The restaurant in tile Qionghua Hotel is also worth trying, and there¡¯s plenty of noodles and dumplings on offer in the area around Ganquan Lu.
Every night until 2am street vendors set up a food street along Ximen Jie just off Huaihai Lu, offer- ing everything from hotpot to skewered beef and puddings. Yangzhou fried rice has become a staple on restaurant menus countrywide, but tastes surpris- ingly like ordinary fried rice - you can find it at eating places throughout town.
There¡¯s a slither of nightlife by the canal near the Xiyuan and Yangzhou Binguan. Of the bars,fills, equidistant between the two hotels, is the best and the most foreigner-friend]y; the Banana Disco outside the Yangzhou is very provincial.
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