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A taste of Dali

Dali Anwu Sea-View Hotel Restaurant

大理安汋海景酒店·餐厅

The top of the Dali market: a small hotel dining room at Shuanglang on the north-east shore of Erhai, cooking a short Western-leaning menu with Yunnan ingredients. The only restaurant around the lake at this price point, and the one to choose if you want a proper tasting-style dinner rather than a Bai banquet.

¥250–320 per person≈ US$37Ctrip Dali City list No. 14Shuanglang (双廊), north-east shore of Erhai — roughly an hour by car from Dali Old Town

Why come here

A place worth making time for

No. 14 on Ctrip's Dali City food list, rated 5.0

The house favourites

What to order

Point at the Chinese. Staff will understand it even where the menu has no English at all.

  • Black truffle pasta (黑松露意面)
  • Yunnan wild mushroom courses (野生菌)
  • Erhai fish, Western treatment (洱海鱼)

Allergens in this kitchen

dairygluten/wheatfisheggtree nuts

This is the kitchen, not one dish. Woks, fryers, blanching water and utensils are shared in almost every Chinese restaurant, so for a serious allergy treat the whole premises as the unit rather than ordering around it.