Thing To Do & See

Folk Jar Restaurant

You'll expect prices to be much higher when you see the classy grey brick interior of this excellent Hunan restaurant. But the fiery dishes are quite reasonably priced and there's even a picture menu to help you choose. The restaurant is just west of Yu Sha Lu on busy Jinlong Lu, a hub of sorts for ethnic restaurants in Hǎikǒu.

Gansu restaurant

One of our favourites on Daying Lu is a nameless restaurant serving tasty Western Chinese dishes, including tǔdòu shāo niúròu (beef and potatoes), as well as its own noodles.

Kuàihuólín

Pick and choose your meal from dishes like potstickers and green beans from the servers wheeling around trolleys. They also make decent Western breakfasts (from Y14).

Western Restaurant

Behind the Hǎikǒu Bīnguǎn, unsurprisingly this place serves decent Western food, like New Zealand mutton stew and the dangerous-sounding 'asbestos curry'! It also does healthy breakfasts.