Shanghai Vegetarian Food Restaurant

Gongdelin Vegetarian Restaurant
It is a building with three stories. the first floor is the lobby with 140 seats for diners. The second floor is the hall for hire. there you can hold birthday party, wedding ceremony etc.. on the third floor, there is a buddha shrine with the figure of Buddha on the wall where diners can burn incense. As far as the food is concerned, Gongdelin is a marvelous restaurant serving Buddhist Vegetarian dishes. The chefs here use all kinds of natural vegetables to imitate chicken, duck, and fish as well as well as pork and beef. If you love vegetarian food, you should try Gongdelin Vegetarian Restaurant. It is said to be one of the best vegetarian restaurants in China.
Adress: No. 445, Nanjing xi Road
Bus Route: bus No. 20, 37
Tel: 63270218

Juelin Vegetarian Restaurant
Located on Jinling Dong Road, it is a tow-story local style dwelling house with wooden walls, floor, wooden paneled stairs and windows. the restaurant is characterized by its delicious vegetarian dishes. Almost any kind of chinese dish one can think of is listed on its menu. But what is special is that it is all vegetarian even if the description sounds carnivorous. All dishes here are made from vegetables and bean curd, but they taste like pork or other kind of meat.
Address: No. 250, Jinling Dong Road
Bus Route: Bus No. 126, No. 42 no. 208 No. 831
Tel: 63260115
Tips: No reservation is accepted and the restaurant will close just at 9:00 p.m. without delay.

Chunfeng Songyue Lou Restaurant
It is original built in Qing Dynasty, about 80 years history from now, Chunfeng Songyue Lou is the most well-known vegetarian restaurants in Shanghai, there are one warm notice hanging in the top roof before you step into the restaurant, it says: No Meats, Vegetable Only. It means customers must be respect to the custom and do not bring any meat to the restaurant. All the ingredients of the each dish are carefully selected, and cook by the master who is working for this restaurant for many years. The top recommended dishes in this restaurant are: deep fry bean cure, stir fried mushrooms and the seasonal serve moon cakes.
Address: No 99, Jiuxiaochang Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-63553630
Public Bus: 932, 64, 11, 66, 126

Longhua Temple Restaurant
Longhua Restaurant is located inside Longhua Temple, the food are well-known from three aspect- color, shape, and taste, the pilgrimage come for workshop the Buddha, and having meals in the temple after praying, noodle with vegetable is the most popular dish in this restaurant, with unique taste and not oily at all. Bean Curd is the main ingredient use to made dishes, and the flavor come out taste like meat, but without any meat on it, it is a great restaurant to try the real vegetarian food with its unique flavor.
Address: No 2853, Longhua Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-64566085
Public Bus: 41,44,87, 104, 734, 714, 933

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple Restaurant
The vegetarian food in Jade Buddha Temple Restaurant is base on traditional Buddhist cuisine, and making fusion of modern cooking techniques, it launched a serious of Buddhist temple style dishes, with the flavor of sweet sour and spicy, the restaurant in will be very crowed in every first day and middle of lunar month. The decoration of the restaurant is pure and fresh in an elegant and simple style that embodies the advantages of modern architecture decoration, but also strongly showed the rich flavor of Buddhist culture. The popular dishes are Bamboo Shot, Mushroom-made dish and Cold Bean Curd Dish in Source.
Address: No 999, Jiangning Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-62663668
Public Bus: 106.112.830.906

Rendao Vegetarian Restaurant
Rendao Vegetarian Restaurant is a buffet restaurant with more than 200 kinds of food, combine with Chinese, Japanese, Tai, and western style of flavor food like Vegetable Salad, Hagen-Daze Ice Cream and Western Style Dessert. The typical dishes in the restaurant are all made of health ingredient, Seaweed, Matsutake soup; polygonum multiflorum tea must be in your order list. Seating in the restaurant fells warm and kind atmosphere stand out against the gentle lighten. Bon Appetite.
Address: No 2782, Longhua Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-64572299
Public Bus: 41.44.714.864

Xinsudai Vegetarian Restaurant
Xinsudai Restaurant is heritage the elements of the Chinese tradition of exquisite vegetarian cuisine, combined with modern Western cooking techniques, the new vegetarian divided into three categories: Sichuan Flavor Vegetarian Food, unique offerings’ health food and vegetarian banquet from palace, the most popular dishes are Ishinabe Rice, Vegetable Stem Bun, and Meat Flavor Food but Made of Vegetable. The restaurant is full of pleasant and warm atmosphere, attracts so many guests lingering here.
Address: No 168, west of Lujiazui Road, Shanghai, 5th floor of Zhengda Plaza
Tel: 021-50471880
Public Bus: 10,85,or subway line No 2

Jujube Tree Restaurant
You would see the famous monk’s inscriptions before step into the restaurant; it says As Early as Vegetarian. the restaurant Inside decorate as simple and elegant style, with a strong Buddhist culture, plus a small square table and rattan chair which will leave you a sense of peaceful and nature. The menu change often in every season to use the most fresh and seasonal ingredient, and every month have new dishes introduce to the customr, it must be worthwhile trip to try in this restaurant.
Black Pepper prime row, dry Neptune Orient volume, seafood taro pot
Address: No 77, Songshan Road
Tel: 021-63848000
Public Bus: No 42.109.581.911,or subway line No ,1

Chongzheng Natural Vegetarian Food Restaurant
The major raw material for food in the restaurant here is mainly used fungus, and carefully cook it as a wonderful dish, each dish is rich in minerals, for those who want to lose weight and stay in shape is a good choice, the restaurant also provide fresh fruits, vegetables and health tea in every afternoon, for the customers sitting in the hall and enjoy the sun, with the natural health food. The popular foods of this restaurant is name after meat but make of vegetable, they are: Sweet and sour fried fish, shrimp, fry eel, pickled fresh Benedict.
Address: No.450-1, Nanjing Road, Shanghai
Tel: 021-63612059
Public Bus: No 20.307.14,or subway line No .2

Jixiang Cao Restaurant
“Jixiangcao” means lucky grass called auspicious, but also the grass a symbol of vegetarian, when entered the restaurant, brick and wooden chair , the big shelf stand among them in the middle of the hall, it making a sense of grace, the taste of this restaurant never change even move to another place, it still keeping the pure vegetarian culture in the end. The typical dishes in the restaurant are: stir fry Bodhi mushroom and wax guard with black pepper.
Address: No 428, Madang Road, second floor.
Tel: 021-63730288
Public Bus: No 146.109,or subway line No ,1

Wuguantang Vegetarian Restaurant
Wuguantang vegetarian restaurant is mainly serve snack, but not for imitation meat dishes, the feature in the restaurant is serve tea before dining, taste with nice fragrant and good for health care. The restaurant decorates as simple and elegant, with the classical music. The celadon tea cup and plate which is full bloom of fruits and vegetables, coarse grains porridge, snacks and so on. In the way of delightful environment to spread the nature and health vegetarian culture to people. Western-style roasted potatoes, Pumpkin boil with egg, bean curd roll with three kinds of vegetables.
Address: No 349, Xinhua Road
Tel: 021-62813695
Public Bus: No 48.76.121.946

Huangshan Chengkan village

Chengkan village is the unique well-deserved ancient village in Ming Dynasty. The ancient architecture groups are very valuable for the research about it. The ancient architectures contain elegant pavilions, houses, bridges, wells, ancestral temples, etc. Moreover, there are exquisite stone carvings, brick carvings, and wood carvings on each house. It is really wonderful article excelling nature! Chengkan village is extremely a perfect representative of Anhui architectures.

Chengkan village locates near the famous Mt. Huangshan. It is so mysterious that people who visit Mt.Huangshan must pay a visit to Chengkan village. It is just like the Holy Land – Mekka. In the eyes of most people, Chengkan village becomes sanctity. What is its charm on earth? Why does Chengkan village make people fascinated?

Chengkan Village was formerly named Longxi Village. It was first built in East Han Dynasty. Up to now, it has a history of more than 1800 years. Chengkan village has a great reputation – “the best village in Jiangnan area”. The location and architecture style depend exactly on the theory of “the Eight Diagrams” and “Feng Shui”. Chengkan village has three streets and ninety-nine lanes, just like a maze, with hills and rivers surrounding it. The ancient river – Longxi River is like a jade belt going across Chengkan village. The eight mountains surrounding the village are like eight directions of “the Eight Diagrams”. The exquisite layout of Chengkan village is a wonder among the village architectures in China.

Once going into the Chengkan Village, visitors may fully feel the comfortable atmosphere here. The farmers are so kind to each other. You may relax yourself and hug the nature. Now, there are more than 700 households in Chengkan village, and 75% of the people’s family name is “Luo”.

Chengkan village is an excellent combination of beautiful nature and humanity. On wandering on the narrow paths in the village, visitors may feel that time stops. If you have a chance to Mt. Huangshan, do not leave without visiting Chengkan Village.

Yangshuo River Cruise Mafia

Seeing the karst formations floating down the Li River on a little boat can be easily done taking a bus from Yangshuo main station, by now everybody will point you where to get the first bus to Yangdi/Xinping. There are several running every few minutes, so it will be definitely easy and fast. However, in this precise moment you will have to be careful who you talk with: many people will offer you boat trip packages, following you to the bus, being insistent even if you firmly and gently refuse their offers. One of these people, the most persistent, will follow you inside the bus, and start offering the same package for a lower price. Even if you still resist, and politely refuse, this person will leave you, probably come back, and then sit somewhere else in the front of the bus. You won’t notice by now, but this is your doom.

Yangshuo. That beautiful little village laid out among some of the most stunning karst rock scenery in East Asia is for many the highlight of any Chinese trip. For this reason and not unexpectedly, also one of the most booming Chinese tourist destinations: in little over two years, I was barely able to recognize some of the roads because of the massive presence of new buildings. Guesthouses, hotels and b&b are everywhere, and the push to exploit the tourism has also generated some bad effects for the solo traveler. I will warn you from a situation that might happen if you attempt to get to the pier at Yangdi to organize your own boat down the Li River….

Arriving at destination after half an hour, you will get off the bus and be met by swarms of other touts offering everything, from fresh fruit to souvenirs and of course, boat cruises. Even if you will surely find some better bargain, at this point you will notice the presence of the very same person who offered you the boat trip in Yangshuo’s bus station… yes, that same person you politely said no at least twenty five times. In his/her presence, any other attempt to reserve a boat, either from one of the touts, or directly from one of the boatmen, will be vain.

Why? Because these people have organized what I would legitimately call a “river cruise mafia” which means that the person who spots you and talk to you first in Guilin , will be the only one entitled to deliver you to the boatman of her choice, and collect her cut from your payment. And there is not much else you can do: whoever you will talk to will pretend he doesn’t have that service you are asking for. This also means that your plans might definitely and easily run amok because of some third party person who lays eyes on you… yeah, that is too bad. But again, nothing to be done: boatmen will stare blankly at the karsts, pretending you are not there asking them questions. Touts will swarm further away from you. This person will, instead, become so insistent to push you to the boat of her interest you will have no choice but take it, or get back on the bus you came from and forget about your river cruise.

There are few things you can do, since this situation is directly created by a mutual agreement between most of the city’s hotel and guesthouse representatives. Best thing is, once you find a person you like and trust, organize your trip directly with them, and make sure they (or the person of their choice) are coming with you to the bus station, clearly showing that yes, they are your guides. This way, people will not be able to claim they “spotted you first” and your experience will be a bit less annoying, being able to decide for yourself, and not let the first peasant coming by claiming rights on your wallet.

Nanjing History and Nanjing Tour

Nanjing, literally “the southern capital”, was an ancient metropolis of six different dynasties in China. The first dynasty to choose Nanjing as its capital was Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period and named the city “Jian’ye”. In the latter years of the Western Jin Dynasty, Nanjing was called “Jian’kang” and it was a name used from beginning of the 3rd century to the end of the 6th century.

The city was formally called Nanjing for the first time in the early Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 AD). “The city is in a perfect location with majestic scenes of high hills, deep rivers and a big plain. These are the works of the Nature. There is no other city in the world has such a beautiful landscape Nanjing has unlimited development potentials.” said Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China. Nowadays, because of the eagerness for urbanization has negatively affected Nanjing’s natural scenery and its valuable heritage.

Nanjing is also a heroic city with a sad history. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and during the following six weeks they exerted a bloody massacre. Some 300,000 Chinese people and soldiers were killed by these utmost barbaric forces. Nanjing people are still commemorating this day of tragedy and humiliation. No one will forget the incident here and it is a heroic symbol for not only the Chinese but all people in the world : pursuing peace and be unite together against brutality. If a taxi driver knows that you are a person from outside the city, he may recommend you to visit the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall to the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre.