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A taste of Guilin and Yangshuo

Agan Restaurant (Zhongshan Middle Road)

阿甘酒家（中山中路店）

A central, long-running Guilin restaurant doing the full northern-Guangxi repertoire rather than one dish, and the easiest place in the city proper to eat beer fish without going out to Yangshuo. Mid-priced, full at dinner, and the kind of place local families book for a birthday.

¥70–110 per person≈ US$10Ctrip Guilin list No. 3Zhongshan Middle Road (中山中路), central Guilin
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

No. 3 on Ctrip's Guilin must-visit food list, rated 4.4

The house favourites

What to order

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

  • Beer-braised osmanthus fish (啤酒桂花鱼)
  • Guilin rice-noodle side dishes (桂林米粉)
  • Taro braised pork (荔芋扣肉)

What it actually tastes like

River fish is cooked whole with bones, head and skin left on — the skin is deliberately unscaled in the beer-fish tradition, which puts some diners off. Expect tomato, pickled chilli and perilla rather than Sichuan numbness.

Allergens in this kitchen

fishsoygluten/wheatsesame

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

Guilin rice noodles 桂林米粉Savoury and aromatic from the braising liquor, then sharply sour and crunchy from the pickles you add