The places to eat Cantonese food in Hangzhou include Cuiyuan, Tang Palace, Yueshun Restaurant, West Lake Spring, and Conrad Restaurant.
1. Cuiyuan
Cuiyuan has its only branch in Hangzhou in Kerry Center. It has elegant decoration, exquisite tableware and service that makes people feel like spring breeze. Jade Garden's dishes are famous for their exquisite and delicious dishes. The names of each dish clearly and straightforwardly show the ingredients and methods, making it convenient for diners to order. Special delicacies include star spot soaked in freshly ground soybean milk, Lunjiao lamb roasted goose, black bean whipped chicken, Cordyceps flower soaked in soybean milk, and four vegetables baked in grape juice.
2. Tang Palace
Tang Palace is a sub-brand of Hong Kong Tang Palace Catering Group established in 1995. Tang Gongzai's dishes are basically the same in every city, with slight differences in the addition of local specialties. Tang Palace's Wanxianghui store is brightly and elegantly decorated, with white tablecloths, comfortable seats, and the overall yellow tone and streamlined crystal chandeliers make people feel more noble. Featured delicacies include Tang Palace Gold Medal Squab, Tang Palace Roast King Goose, Black Pepper Baked Canadian Lobster, Rich Potato Cod Pot, Black Truffle Sauce with Ginseng, Rich Chicken Spare Wings, and Nutritious Braised Snails.
3. Yueshun Restaurant
In Hangzhou, the first restaurant that makes Shunde cuisine is undoubtedly "Yueshun". Yueshun Restaurant, which has been open for several years, has not made much publicity and has won many repeat customers based on word-of-mouth alone. The environment decoration is simple and elegant, decorated with bamboo basket lampshades, calligraphy and paintings, black soft sofas, brown round tables and other items. Special delicacies include preserved clay pot rice, porridge-based hot pot, stewed chicken pot, fried eggs with shrimps and pine nuts, squirting bullfrog, and boiled squid.
4. West Lake Spring
The decoration of West Lake Spring is novel and elegant, with black sofas and white tablecloths, walls decorated with oil paintings, red chandeliers, and red wine cabinets. The food produced by West Lake Spring is remarkable, and some of its dishes have won awards. With the dietary concept of exquisiteness, deliciousness and health, we adhere to the cooking tenet of strict selection of ingredients, precise production and emphasis on original taste, and select Cantonese and Hangzhou dishes and Hong Kong-style dim sum. Special delicacies include cheese grilled lamb chops, Huadiao braised squab, Xishi tofu cake, health-preserving dendrobium and ginseng soup, and yellow braised large abalone wings.
5. Gangli Restaurant
Gangli Restaurant is the largest Cantonese restaurant in Hangzhou. Its appearance is very low-key, but its flavor is good. The decoration of the restaurant is a bit old-fashioned, with mainly yellow and brown colors, in the style of an old-school Cantonese restaurant. The menu of Conrad is very similar to that of Cantonese restaurants in Guangdong. In addition to the common roasted meats, brine and soup, there are also many special dishes on the menu. Special delicacies include dragons from all over the world, oatmeal porridge with sea snails, fish mouth with ginger and scallions, charcoal-grilled suckling pig, brine platter, and steamed Alaskan crab with chicken fat and Huadiao.