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A taste of Guangzhou

Guangzhou Restaurant (Wenchang flagship)

广州酒家（文昌总店）

The city's best-known state-linked Cantonese institution, with its main branch on Wenchang South Road. It has a private-room, garden-courtyard atmosphere and serves morning tea from 7:00 to 14:30. It is touristy and often crowded, but the dim sum is made fresh to order and the shrimp dumpling is the standard test. It is also famous across China for its mooncakes.

¥95–110 per person (reported for the Wenchang flagship morning tea)≈ US$14Liwan, 2 Wenchang South Road. Nearest metro station not confirmed.
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

Famous heritage Cantonese restaurant and a local yum cha benchmark. No award confirmed for 2026.

The house favourites

What to order

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

  • Shrimp dumplings with thin skin (水晶虾饺)
  • Boat congee (艇仔粥)
  • Steamed rice rolls (肠粉)
  • Barbecued pork buns (叉烧包)

What it actually tastes like

Boat congee (艇仔粥) is a Guangzhou original with fish slices, squid, peanuts and fried dough; raw-fish congee and 生滚粥 are cooked to order, and the congee arrives scalding hot, so wait before you taste it. Menus can include chicken feet and offal.

Allergens in this kitchen

shellfishgluten/wheatfisheggpeanutsoy

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.

Get to know the menu

Local specialities to try here

Shrimp dumplings (har gow) 虾饺Sweet, clean prawn with a springy snap; the skin is slippery and faintly chewy.Barbecued pork buns (char siu bao) 叉烧包Sweet-savoury and sticky inside, cloud-soft and slightly sweet outside.Steamed rice noodle rolls (cheung fun) 肠粉Very soft, slippery and barely chewy, carried by the sweet-salty soy.Liwan boat congee 艇仔粥Silky and faintly sweet, with crunch from peanuts and fried bits and a light seafood savour.