Bafangyuan
Pinghai Lu.In the middle of town, two blocks east of Yan’an Lu,this is a popular, clean and efficient Taiwanese-owned snack bar serving a slew of drinks (including the delicious Taiwanese naizhu cha (aka bubble tea, a milky drink containing crunchy bits of tapioca flour),desserts, hotpots(including a dog meat version),and full set meals).

Kuiyuan Guan
Jiefang Lu, just west of Zhongshan Zhong Lu (second floor; go through the entrance with Chinese lanterns hanging outside, and it’s on the left).Specializes in more than forty noodle dishes for all tastes, from the mundane (beef in noodle soup) to the acquired (pig intestines and kidneys).Also offers a range of local seafood delicacies.

Lingyin Si Vegetarian
Lingyin Si. Excellent lunchtime-only fare; full meals come to around 楼50 per person.

Louwailou, GU Shan Island. The best-known restaurant in Hangzhou, on the southern shore of Gu Shan Island, very near the museum.

Specialties include dongpo pork, fish shred soup and beggar’s chicken (a whole chicken cooked inside a ball of mud, which is broken and removed at your table.) Lu Xun and Zhou Enlai, among others, have dined here. Standard dishes cost 楼30-45.

Tianwaitian
Lingyin Si, upstairs from the vegetarian restaurant. Chinese tourists flock here to sample the fresh seafood (supposedly caught from XiHu, and reasonably priced). Dishes are 楼40-55 each. Not as good as Louwailou though.

Zhiweiguan
Renhe Lu, half a block east of the lake. One of the nicest places in town for lunch. In a very urbane atmosphere, with piped western classical music, you can eat assorted dian xin by the plate for around 楼20, including XiaoLongBao (small, fire stuffed dumplings) and mao erduo (fried, crunchy stuffed dumplings). The huntun tang (wonton soup ) and jiu miao (fried chives) are also good.

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