This is a section for us to recommend favourite bars and restaurants. Or to warn of disasters! Please remember, however, places change or have off days! If you have a bad experience at a place recommended here, please let me know. I'll add a rider! If you have any favourites you think others would like, please let me know the details and I'll add them here. 

For a copy of a general menu in Chinese and English which applies to most small restaurants in Liuzhou, click here. To see pictures of Liuzhou restaurant dishes, click here.

FOOD NEWS 

"Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese - toasted, mostly"
Ben Gunn in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurant Closed

I'm sorry to report that Liuzhou's only vegetarian restaurant has closed. The Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurant didn't manage to last a year.

6th July 2008

Pizza Hut opens in Liuzhou

After years of rumour and speculation, it can now be confirmed that Pizza Hut has opened in Liuzhou.

Their menu is heavily adapted for Chinese tastes and frankly, after two visits, I thought their food was awful!

The restaurant is in Gongyuan Lu at the junction with Longcheng Road. It is on the second floor above the telephone shop.

See map.

This must be bad news for the people at Cafe Blooming, Liuzhou's only source of real pizza. Hope they can survive, but their location, bad service and lack of corporate status doesn't help.

24th April 2008

Pizza Restaurant

A new pizza and pasta restaurant has opened in Liuzhou. is opposite the old East Gate (Dongmen) on the approach to Wenhui Bridge. Full report here.

Address: 2-3, Wenhui Road.   Telephone: 2821758.

10th June 2007

Guilin Pizza

Pizza Hut  have opened a restaurant in Guilin, the first in Guangxi outside of the capital, Nanning.

It is at No 33 Zhong Shan Road, on the second floor of the Kangmei Building. Beside the Niko Niko Do Department Store.

Guilin also offers Rosemary Cafe. Pizza, pasta, steaks etc. Find the Sheraton Hotel, stand outside and face the river, go left then take the first left street (avoid the little lanes). Rosemary is on the second block.

19th October 2006

KFC withdraws products in Sudan-I scare

All 1,200 KFC outlets in China, including the two in Liuzhou have withdrawn New Orleans roast chicken wings and chicken burgers after finding that they contained the carcinogenic dye Sudan-I . This is only the latest find in China, with Heinz products being totally withdrawn in Beijing. Fuller details can be found in the various stories here.

20th March 2005

Westerl Food, Beef Hteak

One of Liuzhou's most popular restaurants (both with the Laowai and the locals), the Xi'an Restaurant, has gone, only to be replaced with a new joint calling itself  Taipei "OX" Beef Restaurant. They have not one, but two flash signs on the wall outside proudly offering "Westerl Food, Beef Hteak, Coffee and Simple"

I give up! I surrender! Call Amnesty immediately!

If anyone is brave enough to visit, please let me know. If their westerl cooking is as good as their westerl spelling, I need to know.

As for the Xi'an Restaurant, I am fairly convinced (wishful thinking?) that they will pop up somewhere else eventually. They have been in Liuzhou for years and the place was always popular. I can't believe they have just given up! Dinner on me to the first person to track them down! (Well, a bowl of noodles anyway!)

4th October 2004