Shiwai Taoyuan
As the name suggests, the houses here have a rustic style, surrounded by streams and mountains, giving a strong sense of a utopian paradise. Shiwai Taoyuan features an art studio, museum, hotel, café, and restaurant. The restaurant here is quite good, with recommended dishes including stir-fried bamboo shoots with cured meat, bitter melon meatball soup, and farmhouse vermicelli.
Yanggu Cafe
This is a stall selling coffee. The owner is originally a ceramic artist who opened this small cafe out of a love for coffee. The coffee here tastes very good.
58 Private Kitchen
The most delicious dish here is the pickled radish, which is very spicy and irresistible to pack for the next day's breakfast; the bamboo shoot and old duck pot is a large pot dish that reminds me of Zhang Shengji's old duck and dried bamboo shoot pot, and the taste is quite good. If not for the name of the stir-fried gardenia, I would have thought it was dried bamboo shoots based on the taste, the difference being a hint of floral fragrance in the aftertaste, which is quite a fresh experience.
Maozai Specialty Snacks
This is a famous specialty snack shop open 24 hours a day. The edamame, fried eel, and chicken gizzards are all delicious. You can also take them to go.
Xianghe Century
This is a restaurant with a strong local flavor. The serving speed is still very fast, and the taste is also very good. The mouth-watering chicken and brown sugar glutinous rice cakes are highly recommended.
