Food

Local Listings

Hangzhou offers a wide variety of local Hangzhou and regional cuisine from all over China, ranging from small food stalls on the street to posh restaurants that serve fair from the ridiculously cheap to the prohibitively expensive.

Note that in China restaurants typically serve only during regular eating hours, typically 6:00-8:00 A.M for breakfast, 11:00-1:00 P.M. for lunch, and 5:00-7:00 for dinner. If you arrive at a restaurant at 2:00 P.M., for example, and expect to eat lunch, you may be refused or you may find the staff shorthanded and service slow.

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Cooking Facilities

Students living on campus have access to a cafeteria and students living in off-campus university apartments share a small kitchen with another student in the same apartment. This includes a sink, range and refrigerator.

Food in Hangzhou

Hangzhou is a city with a visible and sizable economic class disparity, and so it is able to support a wide range of lifestyles. While traditional teahouses, small eateries and inexpensive outdoor markets abound, Western fast-food establishments like KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonalds and upscale restaurants serving Japanese, Korean, Thai, Argentine, Italian, Indian, French, and Fusion cuisine cooked by foreign chefs can also be found throughout the city.  Read more...

Regional Cuisine

Please check back soon for English/Chinese menus of Chinese regional cuisine.  Read more...

Special Diets

Many visitors with special diets, such as vegetarian, vegan, organic, kosher, or halaal are able to maintain these diets while living in China, and Chinese Buddhist monks maintain strict vegetarian diets and there is a large population of Muslims in China, including in Hangzhou, who adhere to the halaal diet. Many of the local vegetable markets in Hangzhou and the Carrefour hypermarket carry natural produce, although limited in diversity and subject to seasonal changes.
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