According to recent reports, there are about 10,000 restaurants with a total of 500,000 seats in Guangzhou. A number of these establishments are old name restaurants that date back more than 100 years; others are newly famous.

Favorite local restaurants (and their renowned dishes) include:

• Guangzhou Restaurant (complete dinner of Manchu and Mandarin dishes)
• Panxi Restaurant (The Refreshments Meal)
• Beiyuan Restaurant (fish with pine nuts)
• Nanyuan Restaurant (Chaozhou dishes)
• Tao Tao Ju Restaurant (moon cake with lotus seed paste of Lian Xiang Lou)
• Da Sanyuan Restaurant (stewed shark's fin in brown sauce)
• Datong Restaurant (Jinpai roast suckling pig)
• Dingjiang Restaurant (Dongjiang Kejia dishes)
• Shahe Restaurant (Shanshui Shahe rice starch noodles)
• Qingping Restaurant (Qingping chicken)
• Huabei (North China) Restaurant (Beijing and Tianjin dishes)
• Huimin Restaurant (Muslim dishes)
• The Snake King's Restaurant (snake dishes)

Most restaurants in Guangzhou provide three teas, two meals, and one night snack. Combining eating with entertainment, they are open usually from 5:00 a.m to 12:00 midnight. Some even provide 24-hour service.