Local Listings

Local Hangzhou Cuisine

Religious Dietary Cuisine

Dharma Joy Monastery

The Dharma Joy Monastery (Faxi Si) at Upper India (Shang Tianzhu) serves simple and extremely inexpensive Buddhist vegetarian cuisine three times per day in a beautiful monastic environment. Each meal typically includes two tofu or textured vegetable protein dishes, often imitating meat dishes in texture and flavor, one vegetable dish and rice. Meals only cost CNY 3 (about USD 0.37) and you can go back for refills as much as you like, but it is monastery policy to finish all the food and rice in your bowl.

239 Shang Tianzhu Faxi Monastery
Name and address in Chinese: 上天竺法喜寺, 天竺路239号

Meal times: Breakfast 6:00-7:30 A.M., Lunch 10:30-12:30, Dinner 4:30-5:30
Directions: The best way to get to the Dharma Joy Monastery at Upper India (Shang Tianzhu Faxi Si 上天竺法喜寺) is to go right out of the exit to Lingyin Monastery (灵隐寺) and continue southwest along the small lane that begins just past the vendors and the taxi queue. You will pass the Fajing Monastery (法镜寺) and just after the next Fajing Monastery (法净寺), there is a small bridge on the right side of the road that follows the creek upriver, parallel to the North Meiling Road (梅灵北路). Alternatively, take a taxi to the pullout just before the Meiling Tunnel (Meiling Suidao 梅灵隧道) and walk down hill to the monastery. You may use your Hangzhou Buddhist Monastery Card to enter the monastic compound for free through the entrance on the right. Once inside, you will find the refectory on the west side of the first courtyard. Purchase meal tickets at the service window to the left of the entrance and pick up your first course at the service window to the right. Rice and chopsticks are provided inside

Tarim Restaurant

Hidden away on the second floor, the Tarim Restaurant offers authentic Uygur cuisine and live folk music and dancing every night of the week. Run by a husband and wife management team, Ahmad, a musician of some repute from Turpan, plays guitar and sings while his wife, Khankiz from Kashgar, dances every evening from 7:00 to 8:30. The meat pies are delicious and the kebabs are some of the best you can find outside of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

175 Hedong Road (Chaohui Fifth District)
Phone: 13666602873 or 571-85239054
Name and address in Chinese: 塔里木维族馆 河东路边175号 (朝晖五区)

International Cuisine in Hangzhou

Döner Kebap

Originally owned and operated by Oliver Przibill and his wife, Zhu Xiao (诸晓), Döner Kebap is now under local ownership and management, but still sells the same delicious pork grilled on a slow-rotating rotisserie, which is imported from Germany, and served in a toasted sesame pita bread topped with all the trimmings and mixed in tzatziki sauce. Delicious home cooked stew and fresh amaretto cupcakes are prepared daily. This popular eatery is located just outside Yuquan Campus on Yugu Road next to the Western Union.

Open 10:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
Name in Chinese: 欧派康巴克

Free Mori

The Free Mori café is located conveniently next to the front gate of the Yuquan Campus and offers the most inexpensive and best coffee this side of the lake. There are also a variety of baked goods on offer, including sugar-coated doughnuts, croissants and birthday cakes. A hot cup of Americano or a single espresso is only CNY 8, where most establishments in Hangzhou that sell coffee do so at midtown Manhattan prices (over CNY 40-60 is normal). With several locations throughout the city, the closest is literally across the street from the front gate of the Yuquan campus on Yugu Road, just two stores south of Zheda Road. Look for the bright orange sign above the storefront. Contrary to popular speculation, Mori is not a Japanese political dissident or dolphin in need of freeing. The name Free Mori is Fuli Senlin (浮力森林) in Chinese, and is composed of fuli , a transliteration of the English word “free” and meaning “buoyancy” in Chinese, and senlin, which means "forest," the first character of which is pronounced mori in Japanese.

Free Mori, Yuquan Branch
141 Yugu Road, Hangzhou
Phone: (571) 87994618
Hours of operation: M-Sun 7:30 A.M.-10:00 P.M.
Name and address in Chinese: 浮力森林玉泉店, 杭州市玉古路141号 (靠近浙大路)

Shangri-La Hotel

The Shangri-La Hotel in Hangzhou, a four-star hotel on the north shore of West Lake and a pleasant walk from the China Center, has a small Delicatessen Corner on the first floor of the older west wing. Open from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M every day, all fresh salads, sandwiches and breads go on sale half-price after 5:00 P.M., so even on a student budget you can enjoy freshly baked whole wheat and white breads, French baguettes, croissants, and focaccia, German rye and even pretzels. In addition there are a wide variety of Danishes and the most delicious carrot cake loaf you will find in Hangzhou, all for very reasonable prices after 5:00 P.M. All fresh produce is promptly disposed of at 7:00 P.M., so arrive early.

78 Beishan Road
Phone: 87977951 X 6416
Website
Name and address in Chinese: 美味店,杭州香格里拉饭店,北山路78号

Carrefour (Ch. Jialefu chaoshi)

With fifty-nine stores in mainland China, the French hypermarket Carrefour is the largest retailer in China and offers a good variety of imported goods and foodstuffs, including an organic vegetables section and a good selection of breads.

Located in the basement of the Yongjin Plaza
137 South Yan'an Road (between Xihu Boulevard and Kaiyuan Road)
Website
Name and address in Chinese:
家乐福超市
延安路137号 (西湖大道与开元路中间)

Metro (Ch. Maidelong)

With twenty-five stores in mainland China Metro is a close competitor to Carrefour but offers much better service and environment and has the largest and best selection of international products and foodstuffs in Hangzhou. You need to be a Metro-card holder to shop here, however. To get your own card contact Linda Liang, the Key Account Executive, and show her your Zhejiang University student ID and LIU enrolment verification. The China Center customer No. is listed in Chinese under the current director's name and is: 717329 60. It costs about CNY 28 from the China center by taxi. Bring your own bags or pay CNY 0.5 per plastic bag after checkout.

355 East Genshan Road, Jianggan District, Hangzhou (east of the Tiesha River)
Phone: 571-86498888 X 888 or 889
Fax: 571-86491909
Key Account Executive (Linda Liang) cell phone: 13777468228
Floor Manager (Alan Wang) cell phone: 13805790848
Website
Name and address in Chinese:
锦江麦德龙 艮山东路355号

Best Eurofood

Many Best Eurofood products are sold at Metro, including a good selection of fresh whole-grain German bread, pizzas and pretzels, but Best Eurofood also makes local deliveries in Hangzhou. Orders require a CNY 50 minimum and should be placed by email or fax before 3:00 P.M. for next day delivery from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. Please check the website below to download the order list.

Email: order@pizza-hans.com
Fax: 571-56692991
Mobile: 13396817970
General Manager: Hans Barth
Website

Shanghai Listings

City Supermarket

The City Shopping Service Company was established in January, 1993, in Shanghai, and makes deliveries every Sunday of international food imports from City Supermarket to your home in Hangzhou with no minimum order and no service charge. Check the China Center library for the most recent shopping guide for the stock number and unit price of each item. Orders accepted through phone, fax or email.

Phone: 021-62674248; 021-64779671
Fax: 021-62150418; 021-62674248
Email: citytra@public1.sta.net.cn
City Supermarket, Shanghai Centre Shop
1376 West Nanjing Road
Open 6:00 to 10:00 P.M. seven days per week
Name and address in Chinese: 城市超市 上海商城 南京西路376号

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