2Guangzhou

A terrific choice for Cantonese cuisine, with all day dim sum and a full slate of Guangzhou faves. If the secret of finding a good restaurant is to eat where the locals eat, then the Bei Yuan is the ''X'' on the treasure map, with the decibels to prove it. There is a separate dining hall serving Chiu Chow cuisine from eastern Guangdong: it goes in for piquant sauces and its chefs have a famous way with goose and duck.

Another choice spot for weekend dim sum: you've got to work hard to get a table there at peak times, but it's worth it. If you developed a taste for dim sum in your home country, you'll be in heaven in Guangzhou where it all started, and the Bai Yun Xuan does it as well as anyone. Accepts international credit cards.

Only the Chinese can do food this way and make it work - and Guangzhou is where they do it best of all! A five-story temple of cuisine, crammed to the rafters at peak time, with more live fish on the ground floor than in the local Sea World. Just the spot for weekend dim sum with two or three hundred of your closest friends.

Features: International Cards.

Founded in 1904, Yunxiang Restaurant is well-known for traditional Cantonese cuisine, pastry, and moon cakes.

Tao specializes in Cantonese moon cakes.