Category archive for ‘Eat’ 
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Wacky Weather
April is upon us…and the rain and the winds have truly come to play. Hang onto your hats and umbrellas!
By Belle Typhoon
Thankfully, our fair city has plenty of indoor options. Restaurants (and increasingly better ones), bars and clubs abound in Hangzhou.
So grab some friends or your sweetie and find a hotspot to bunker down in on this [...] -
Valentino Restaurant
Probably the best thing about Valentino Italian Restaurant at Landison is the view looking out over Hangzhou as you stand at the urinal to pee. Well, the rest of the views are pretty good too. But nevertheless, that makes the restaurant the most expensive public toilet in Hangzhou. The other restaurants in the hotel are [...]
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Longjing New Tea 1Y per Leaf
Despite the dustbowl that Hangzhou became on Sunday – something to do with the Gobi desert migrating to Japan – we decided to go for a wander and see of they had started picking the new tea yet… …I couldn’t figure out if they were trying to park, or drive, or just organise an impromptu air horn requiem to google.cn. Whatever it was, it was time to walk, because the cars wouldn’t be going anywhere for a while…
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Exploding popcorn man
First, I’ll answer the question that everyone asks. No, we didn’t see the Great Wall. China is a big country and we didn’t get within 800 miles of the Great Wall. But we did see the exploding popcorn man.
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Angelos – A Slice of New York in Hangzhou
The Chateaubriand was 20 centimeters long, the whole tail end of a filet of beef. Slightly blackened on the outside, this gargantuan piece of beef cleaved open, almost poetically, to show the soft juicy pink centre…
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New Starbucks opened – Hangzhou EAC
Starbucks is slowly creeping west. If I can hold on a couple of years there might even be one downstairs from me.
By SWG
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99Y buffet at Landison
Was snooping around the MOREHangzhou website on Sunday looking for somewhere to go for buffet lunch and the 99Y++ deal at Cafe Le Rendevous, Landison grabbed the attention. 99Y? Got to be a catch. MORE says you have to make a reservation with them to get the discount, so I duly did.
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D’Cafe Hangzhou
…Seriously though. D’Cafe isn’t actually a hotdog place in the Projects. Far from it. With the marble clad reception of the Dragon Hotel large enough to park a whole NBA teams’s worth of Hummers this place is more fitting to be seen drinking Crystal Champagne than chasing the dragon. With all this awe and glory and chandelier on the way in, it is slightly surprising that D’Cafe isn’t done up to the nines as well. This restaurant is simply comfortable …
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Ajisen Noodles
Hunting around you can still find a bowl of noodles in Hangzhou for very little money so Ajisen Ramen’s 20-30RMB per bowl seems a little cheeky. Of course your local Xinjiang Hand-pulled Noodle cupboard isn’t exactly 5-star comfort, in fact most of those places don’t even have a front door, a slight turn-off in the winter. But paying four or five times the rate for the pleasure of a front door?
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Your nearest Macdonalds
A Martian during his first hour on Earth might appreciate a MacDonalds review, lest it think that humans actually call this stuff food. All ideas of ’sandwich’ and ‘burger’ would need redefining. Nevertheless, not expecting any of you to actually own up to eating this non-food, I know that some secretly do. Here is a map of your nearest MacDonalds.
By SWG
