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Q: Favorite Cheap Eats?
What are your favorite cheap eats here, I'm trying to stay on a budget and sometimes find it hard to avoid the bigger restaurants. What are your favorite dishes/vendors that are cheap?
It will be a matter of your own taste. I do enjoy fry noodles, in most places 6 or 7 Rmb. But I do find them too greasy for my full liking, so I do buy them as a take out, bring them home, and on a plate place a paper towel on it and then the fry noodles. Put another paper towel on top touching the noodles, and stick it into microwave for 40 or 60 seconds. Most of the oil will be captured by the paper towels, and to me they now taste even better.
Your best bet will be to walk into one of those small restaurants so common here, and sit down and ask for a plate. That will be about the only way to find out what you really like and enjoy.
My favorite cheap eats are a huntun/jiaozi restaurant, and then a dan chao fan restaurant. Can eat well for 11-12rmb. Usually prefer to eat at a local place versus a chain restaurant (e.g. Sha Xian)
becareful also be close to a washroom better to learn how to cook yourself
Sizzeriya is the cheapest Italian resturant i've ever been and the food is yummy!
Baozi street vendors are the cheapest. But the quality is never great. Best bet is to try a dumpling restaurant, it's usually pretty cheap and dumplings are delicious.
Jiaozi Jiaozi Jiaozi... Ban mian.. AND JIAO ZI!!!! Ok so yeah, eat the jiaozi... zhen jiao, not yun tun.. steamed or fried, eaters choice.. leng mian is also quite good (cold noodles).. My stomach is almost completely adapted to Chinese food now. I have had instances of eating out with foreign friends, where we all eat the same thing, and they throw up for a day, and I go play.. also have chronic stomach pain, but EH!! wtf!!!
