There are a couple of decent dimsum places in Shantou, even though it isn’t a local speciality.  There are two that I know of, and both are restaurants in expensive hotels.  The first is - I’ve forgotten the English name - 海景酒店 ...

Maggie Ad posted on June 30th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: Haibin Road, Jinsha Road, Restaurant | 4 Comments »

After bbq we head straight on for freshly squeezed fruit juice on Zhongshan Lu, also pretty famous due to its quality.  The fruit juices around Walmart are very average, but the this was good stuff.  Sorry, I can’t pinpoint it, it was just sho...

Maggie Ad posted on June 19th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: fruit, Restaurant, Zhongshan Road | 1 Comment »

The rain has stopped so we took the chance and went to Shantou’s most famous bbq, which is just the next block along Waima Road (外马路) from the Catholic church.  It’s open from 10pm to 3am.  It’s the longest bbq I’ve ev...

Maggie Ad posted on June 19th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: Restaurant, Waima Road | 2 Comments »

Went to the Meritus for Afternoon Tea on Sat afternoon.  It was interesting - obviously not as classic as in England - no scones, no sandwiches - but as well as cakes with REAL CHOCOLATE they also had fresh salad and some hot (well, kept-warm) snacks...

Maggie Ad posted on May 30th, 2006 under: Fun place, Eating in ST | Tag: hotels, Jinsha Road, Restaurant | 5 Comments »

Mmm, just had lunch, it’s nice to be full.  Well had a reasonably quiet weekend…  Mainly taekwondo and eating, which generally speaking makes me happy. 
Went up to Dansuao Hotspring again last night.  This is just a little update...

Maggie Ad posted on May 16th, 2006 under: Fun place, Eating in ST | Tag: beer, Chaoan, Chaozhou, food, Restaurant | 2 Comments »

While we’re on the subject of food, I just want to say what great markets Shantou has.  Prior to this weekend I thought they were standard throughout China, or at least the south.  Oh how I was wrong. 
I was in Xiamen teaching my friend...

Maggie Ad posted on April 18th, 2006 under: Living in ST, Eating in ST | Tag: food | No Comments »

Map to find Korean barbeque, if you can make head or tail of it. I’ve not been yet, so can’t give any more information.

(Click to see the bigger map)

Maggie Ad posted on March 8th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: Restaurant | 2 Comments »

I recently had a comment that mentioned the Brazilian restaurant, I guess I should have said something before.  The Brazilian restaurant opened a couple of months ago and I think just about everybody in Shantou heard about it.  The result was that j...

Maggie Ad posted on March 8th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: Hengshan Road, Jinsha Road, Restaurant, Tianshan Road | 1 Comment »

Went out for COFFEE last night.  I don’t usually drink coffee, but my friend invited me for coffee and I hadn’t seen him in ages so off I went.  I was actually planning to have tea but when I got there I couldn’t find any decent te...

Maggie Ad posted on March 1st, 2006 under: Fun place, Eating in ST | Tag: coffee, Dongxia Road, drinks, Jinsha Road, Jinyuan Road, Restaurant | 6 Comments »

My friend Bill is moving to Australia with his family after New Year so last night he took me out for dinner to say goodbye and we went to a Japanese restaurant. That makes five that I know of in Shantou and there still isn’t a single Korean res...

Maggie Ad posted on January 27th, 2006 under: Eating in ST | Tag: changping road, Japanese, Restaurant | 10 Comments »