南园酒家 — Restaurant in Guangzhou City

Was there for a group of over 10 pax. We had a private room to ourselves. We spend RMB4000 including a bottle of wine and some beer. Thorougly wowed by the atmosphere. The posh setting of the restaurant is almost a highlight of the evening. The furniture they use in the private rooms are of heavy wood. The garden is of a traditional chinese garden and exudes tranquility and finese. Photo worthy. The above is the only plus point of our meal. Service wise, wee do not feel like we are VIPs going to spent thousand of dollars. We speak Chines/mandarin fluently. It was efficient but not over the top. Food wise was ok but i reckon Michelin Stars are overated. We personally do not feel the food was exceptional. Nor was the presentation worthy of a hefty price and befitting of the posh setup.

I arranged the dinner for a surprise. Well we did get a initial wow but it goes down from there. We went with great expectation but...

We wanted to try their breakfast from 8-10 am, but were totally disappointed. The First waitress came and said 3 of 5 breakfast offers arenot available anymore so we decided to take the other 2. Then the sesond waitress came and said all of breakfast menus are out of Stock and we should just order something from the expensive card. The tone of both waitresses were so rude and respectless that we paid for the tea and went to...

As per photos this is a beautiful place in the middle of Guangzhou to go for yum cha and was recommended by my wife's father who is a local professor for our family to go have breakfast. The Xiao long bao were my favourite, a little more spicy than typical northern style but very tasty. Food was also relatively cheap apparently and although I didn't pay it was USD...