Eat in Zhuhai:
All the usual Cantonese foods are available. Seafood is a local specialty.
One large and popular high-end seafood place is on a boat in Xiangzhou harbour. From Gongbei, take #9 or Sightseeing bus along Lover’s Road until you see an island and bridge on your right, just as the bus turns left. Get off and walk across the bridge. From Jusco, walk South on the main street to the first corner and turn left. The bridge is one block dead ahead.
Shi Shen Seafood City has two locations, one in a interesting old building a bit North of town on the coast road (#3, #10 or Sightseeing bus) and one near the border, a short distance along the road by the clock tower.
Food from other parts of China is also available. Hunan and Sichuan spicy food is common, One well-known Hunan place is Huo Gong Dian in Gongbei.
Walking North from Jusco on the main street, there are many restaurants:
turn right at the first corner (KFC) for a big seafood place and a good Sichuan place at the seafood place, turn left, and 20 meters along the side street is an alley on your right with assorted cheap plain restaurants
when the alley ends, turn left for more of the same including good Muslim noodles about half a block along on your right
back on the main street, turn left at first pedestrian overpass for good Dong Bei (Northeast China) food
There is a fine Xinjiang place on the #4 bus route, one stop North of the Jida ferry port. That is part of a cluster of restaurants in a newly developed area, perhaps twenty of them, generally mid-range.
For a cheap and filling snack, look for the tiny noodle places run by Muslims.
Non-Chinese food:
There are several Thai food restaurants. The one on the lower floor of the border shopping area is fine.
Good, but relatively expensive places:
Indian Kitchen, Jida 4 bus, 2 stops South of the port
Indonesian reastuarant, Jida 9, near the driving range
Roman restaurant, Jida, Texan chef, 100 RMB steak or 50 RMB burritos, good 68 RMB dinner buffet 4 or Sightseeing bus, look for the airplane on a stand in front of a shopping center near the beach. Owner and his daughter both speak excellent English, most staff have some English. Wednesday nights foreigners get a discount on beer.
Do not go to the Indian Restaurant in Gongbei for the food. There are no curries; the specialty is tolerable steak at high prices. However, you might consider going for the decor, which is all American plains Indian except for a few pieces of Northwest coast art. The waitresses look rather cute in fringed skirts with feathers in their hair. It is a couple of blocks past McDonalds walking North on the main street from West end of the border shopping area.
There are several Japanese restaurants in town.
Jusco has good sushi on the third floor.
There is a large upscale Japanese place on Lovers’ Road in Gongbei, a block from Bar Street.
Takumi Ken, is on the #4 bus route, one stop South of the port.
There are two pizza places run by foreign residents, both good:
Mr Pizza is in Jinding (#3, #10 or Sightseeing bus to first bus stop after you turn into Jinding, then cross the street).
Dynamics Pizza [7] is in Xiangzhou, set back from the street on the main street a couple of blocks North of Jusco, opposite the Post Office.
To shop for imported groceries, try Jusco on the main street in Xiangzhou, or Carrefour out near the end of the #9 bus line, or the Zhuhai Deli [8]. Jusco has a reasonable bakery, albeit with a few odd items like tuna doughnuts.
