Shiqilao Zhongshan Restaurant — Restaurant in Zhongshan

One of the most famous restaurants in Zhong Shan City, it’s been around for more than 20 years. Maybe even longer than that.

Reservations definitely required as evident from the hordes without reservations milling around the front desk looking for a table. We managed to get ourselves a room fortunately because we booked a week in advance.

The dishes here are definitely Zhong Shan or Shi Qi (old name of Zhong Shan City before it was renamed in honour of Sun Yat Sen). Must order their deep fried pigeons, grass carp fishballs with the green clam sauce (The sauce is made from the secretions of clams!) The abalone and crunchy grass carp salad is also a specialty. Grass carps are fed with edamame beans to ensure their flesh is crunchy when cooked.

Not very cheap but well worth the...

Amaizing restaurant. i had one one the best lunches i ever had here. The place is cheap to eat (kind of hard to believe for such a popular place with good good). Most of the cooking is open to see, at the middle of restaurant. They cook unique traditional chinese food, and tasts amaizing. Specially try their...

Very good, but not the best. Perhaps I was setting too high an expectation on the pigeon... It did not give me the out-of-this-world feeling. I was more impressed by other dishes such as the squid fritters. Still worth trying if you are visiting Zhongshan. Be prepared to queue for 45 min if you go...