Ningbo - Eating
Many restaurants in Ningbo serves local food, there are no menus. The way to order is to look at the samples and pictures of the dishes and choose, which makes it more convenient for foreign tourists. Ningbo cuisine is known for its generous use of seafood, though regional favourites like dumplings and noodles are also widely available.
Old Ningbo Restaurant
Many people come to Old Ningbo Restaurant to try authentic Ningbo dishes. It is most famous for the braised eel and crocodile pot.
Zaozishu Vegetarian Restaurant
Zaozishu is different from other vegetarian restaurants and becomes a very live leisure place with elegant and austere decoration. It is a good place to try vegetarian dishes.
Jun Huang Fu Restaurant
Jun Huang Fu - county, king and mansion in Mandarin – lives up to its name as a luxurious establishment and is one of the top restaurants downtown, mainly serving Cantonese cuisine.
Yihuzan Soup Restaurant
Yihuzan Health Soup restaurant has gained its fame by its unique formula of soup, which has been improved through decades of development. The ingredients include fish, meat, poultry and a secret medical formula and all the soups sold are said to be good for men’s health.
Yongshang Renjia Private Restaurant
This restaurant prepares local products with special in-house cooking methods. Reasonably priced, its best dishes are black goat pot and hot fish slice.
Gang Ya Gou Tangtuan
Ningbo people have the tradition of having Tangtuan (a kind of stuffed dumplings made of glutinous rice flour served in soup) as breakfast in the first day of Lunar New Year, known as Spring Festival. Guang Ya Gou is the best at making Tangtuan in Ningbo. There will be various stuffings, like sesame, sweet osmanthus, shrimp, ham, meet, salted meat, egg yolk and more.
Guo Ju Dock Restaurant
A well known sea food restaurant. Guo Ju Dock Restaurant attracts customers by its fresh sea food, good flavor and low price. You can try the small clams, Qiandaohu big fish head and Mantis shrimp here.
Shi Pu Restaurant
In the Tianyi Square, Shi Pu Restaurant has a first-class eating atmosphere. You can sit on the terrace seeing the fountain view, feasting on sea food, such as fertile white crab, stir fried clams with basil and fragrant snail. And just note that the food waits for no latecomers.
Yong River Bright Peal Revolving Restaurant
Located downtown. This revolving restaurant is in the highest building in Zhejiang province (138 m in height), providing a beautiful view of the rivers.
