Canton Eating and Shopping

"There's good eating in Guangzhou" has become a popular saving in China, praising the Guangdong food.

But now Guangdong is not only a paradise for gourmets but also for shopping and entertainment fans.

It is a real enjoyment to taste Guangdong food. Among all the main Chinese cooking schools, Guangdong food is the most outstanding. The various kinds of food and snacks, combining taste, colour and fragrance, and the comfortable eating environment and good service unite to prove it is the best food in China.

Guangdong cuisine consists of Guangzhou food, Chaozhou-Shantou food and Dongjiang food each with its own characteristics, with Guangzhou food being the most influential. Guangdong cooking uses various materials and fine selections, and no matter whether they are birds or animals, game or seafood, wild vegetables or flowers, they all can be used for cooking delicious dishes. The Cantonese, who "regard food as the first thing under the heaven" have their own gourmet lifestyle. With the largest food industry in the country, Guangdong people eat everywhere, from high-class restaurants down to roadside food stalls, to food streets, which can accommodate thousands of people.

Eating often goes together with entertainment. Entertainment and recreation centres, nightclubs song and dance halls Karaoke halls and bars have rapidly developed in Guangdong.

High class culture and arts also have deep roots here. The Guangdong music Guangdong Opera, Chaozhou Opera and folklore are all irreplaceable local arts. Western arts, such as ballet, modern dances and symphony, have also found their place in Guangdong. Artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan and foreign art troupes also often visit Guangdong, adding to the colourful art life in the province.

Guangdong has long been "Paradise of Shopping". It has been the busiest commercial area in China, with a network spreading across the whole Pearl River Delta, centred in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. All types of top-qualiry and fashionable goods from all parts of the world can be found in Guangdong. In all the commercial ateas there are both large shopping centres and special market streets and shops selling jewellery, clothes, electric appliances, computers, antiques, and even flowers, birds, fish and pets. Business people, domestic and foreign£¬all compete here, which, needless to say, gives the consumers not only more choices but vantage for bargaining.