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Pan Xi - a traditional Chinese garden-style restaurant in South China


Pan Xi - it's of the three big traditional Chinese garden-style restaurants in Guangzhou city South China. Because it is surrounded by five small streams, including one called Panxi, and so the restaurant is named "Pan Xi restaurant". The restaurant connects with the Liwan Lake Park which occupies an area of 12,000 Sm. and was the Imperial Garden "Chang Hua Yuan" of the king of Nan Han Dynasty in 1000 years ago.


It was founded in 1947 and designed by Chinese famous landscape architect Mo Bozhi. It gathers the landscape essence of Southern China and is condensing the cream of China's history, culture and nationality arts and crafts.


More photos are in http://pinterest.com/littlepointa/travel/

It has many specialities such as Steamed Whole White Gourd Soup, Garden Herbs Chicken and Assorted Platter. The most famous are its pastries. The famous pastry is Pan Tang horseshoe cake (Chestnut cake) which is the steamed mixing water chestnuts powder and sugar.

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