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A taste of Guilin and Yangshuo

Youyixuan Horse Meat Rice Noodles

又益轩马肉米粉

Guilin's surviving horse-meat noodle house, run by the same family across four generations and the only place in the city still doing the dish properly. Horse-meat noodles are traditionally served in a stack of tiny bowls — a few strands and two slices of meat each — so you work through several, and the broth is simmered from horse bone. The room is dark wood and deliberately old-fashioned.

¥15–40 per person≈ US$2.23Guilin city centre, reported near the Jiefang West Road / Taiping Road junction, in the lane opposite the Weixiaotang (微笑堂) department store. Address not independently confirmed.
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

No national award. Reported to hold Guangxi autonomous-region-level intangible cultural heritage recognition for the craft, and the dish itself sits under the national ICH listing for Guilin rice-noodle making (Ⅷ-277). The regional listing for this specific shop is unconfirmed.

The house favourites

What to order

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

  • Horse meat rice noodles (马肉米粉)
  • Braised-topping rice noodles (卤菜粉)

What it actually tastes like

Horse meat is the point and will bother some visitors — it is lean, dark and faintly sweet. It is cured and sliced paper-thin rather than cooked to order. Portions come in many miniature bowls, which is normal, not a mistake.

Allergens in this kitchen

soygluten/wheat

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.