1. snacks:

Xiamen snacks are more famous a few old stores are: good fragrant, Wu Zaitian, Huang Zaihe. Wu Zaitian is more famous is the sand tea noodles and taro buns, good clean incense is more famous is meat dumplings, Buddha jump wall, crab meat Chau, five spice rolls, Huang Zhehe is more famous is peanut soup and leek box. In addition, Xiamen is more famous snacks and duck congee, oyster omelette, sand tea noodles and so on. Cha Cha Noodle is more famous and Hubin four miles of the four miles of Cha Cha Noodle and the Nationality Road of the sugar Cha Cha Noodle, which four miles of Cha Cha Noodle the most authentic, and the sugar Cha Cha Noodle fame, but the price is particularly expensive, the taste is okay, the service is very general. As for duck congee, it is the "Furyu Cosmos Duck Congee" opposite to Cosmos Primary School that has the most authentic taste. At the end of Kukou Street, there are two "Sibei Shacha Barbecue", the one at the very end of the street is authentic, barbecue with lettuce and glass bottles of Coke, the taste is first-class. In a building next to the Sibei Shacha barbecue restaurant, there is a vendor specializing in oyster crackers and shrimp crackers. Their oyster pens and shrimp crackers are quite good, but every time you go to buy them, you have to wait in a very long line. In addition, there is also Bacai Village's fried dried beans, a specialty of Xiamen, which is a group of people sitting in the middle of the alley, around a large frying pan, on which seafood, meat, dried beans and so on, while drinking beer and boxing.

2. Restaurants:

Xiamen's upscale restaurants are: Jiali Seafood, Shuyou, Harbor City, a abalone and so on. Jiali seafood in the island road has a branch, you can eat seafood while looking at the sea view and the opposite side of the Golden Gate (Harbor City is also on the island road). Mid-range restaurants mainly include Peony Restaurant, Yazhu Restaurant, and Good Scent Restaurant. These restaurants have many branches in Xiamen, with Yazhu's octopus and earth bamboo shoots jelly being the signature must-order dishes. If you want to eat authentic Xiamen and Fujian cuisine, you should go to the good fragrance restaurant, good fragrance has a history of more than 70 years, is the representative of Xiamen and Fujian cuisine, which good fragrance of Buddha jumped over the wall of the most famous, in the field of Buddha jumped over the wall of Min (Fujian) in the north of Fuzhou Juchunyuan, south of Xiamen, good fragrance. As for the big stalls, Xiamen tour quite a lot of big stalls, the more famous are: Afa soy sauce water, A great stalls. It is recommended that tourists do not go to the island road and Zengcuo press that area to eat big stalls, the price is more expensive and cooking in general.

Second, accommodation

1. Express Hotel (economy hotel):

Xiamen has a lot of fast hotels, these fast hotels are prominent: warm, comfortable, clean and safe. There is no lack of some well-known domestic fast brand and Fujian or Xiamen regional brand. Suggestions to Xiamen to live in Xiamen Express Hotel, choose the Yiting Express Hotel chain, which is subordinate to the Xiamen Municipal Government directly under the control of the top ten state-owned enterprises Xia Shang Group, Yiting Express in the Xiamen area, the largest number of hotels, there are 10 directly-managed stores. However, it is better to stay at Yiting Express Hotel to book rooms through its reservation center, because you can get the lowest price for booking its subordinate Yiting Express Hotel through its reservation center, which is lower than the lowest casual rate at the front desk. Its phone number is 400-882-3333 and its website is www.easy-inn.cn . If you don't want to stay at the Yiting Express, you can also choose hotels such as Ruijia, Jinjiang Star, and Hanting, all of which are also available in Xiamen.

2. Star Hotels:

Xiamen also has a relatively large number of star hotels, 5-star hotels are: Yuehua, Haiyue Villa, Sheraton, Baolong, Asia Bay and so on. Haiyue Villa is a state guesthouse opened in 08 about 1500 yuan, although not directly in the room to see the sea, but walk to the beach as long as 2 minutes, and behind their own mountain range, green space is wide, and often have national leaders to come. Yuehua Convention & Exhibition and Asia Bay Hotel both face the sea for about 600 RMB, and Asia Bay Hotel also has its own sandy beach and wooden stacks, about 8 kilometers from the city center. If you want to see Gulangyu Island and the Heron River, the proposal is to live in the ferry area, this area is better hotel recommendations are East Ocean Hotel (3 stars, Zhongshan Road 1, opened more than 20 years, Tel: 0592-2698888), Wyndham Hepingli Hotel (5 stars, internationally renowned brand, more expensive), Heron River Hotel (4 stars, the room is relatively small, the price is more expensive), as for the region's other hotels are strongly advised to Don't go to live.

Three, attractions

1. Gulangyu Island:

Gulangyu Island is the symbol of Xiamen tourism, in fact, Xiamen is really worth to go to play the attractions of Gulangyu Island. It's almost a 10-minute boat ride from Xiamen Ferry across the river to Gulangyu. The ferry departs every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 10 minutes during rush hour. The main attractions on Gulangyu Island are: Sunlight Rock, Beans and Peas Garden, Hao Yue Yuan, and also the different styles of architecture on Gulangyu Island (Gulangyu Island used to be under a Universal Lease). Sunlight Rock is usually very crowded with tourists, at that time it was the symbol of Xiamen and Gulangyu Island, come to Gulangyu Island to play have to go to the sunlight rock, from the sunlight rock can look directly across the Golden Gate. Since Gulangyu Island was previously under a universal lease, a large number of foreign consulate buildings and villas in various styles have been preserved, and when you have free time, you can stroll along the streets of Gulangyu Island and savor all that these buildings contain. The Bagua Building, which now houses the Xiamen Museum on Gulangyu Island, was the former Japanese consulate.

The density of pianos per capita on Gulangyu is one of the highest in the country, with basically every household on the island having a piano, and many internationally and nationally renowned musicians have come out of Gulangyu, such as Yin Chengzong. Beans Garden is built along the seashore, with beautiful scenery, and many old pianos are preserved in it, which is of great historical significance.

The tourist goods sold on Gulangyu Island will be more expensive, the advice is not to buy on it, are from the outside in the small goods. There is a well known butcher store on Gulangyu Island, but it sells to tourists for 14 yuan a packet, and locals buy it for 10 yuan a packet, and the pies are pretty much the same type of pricing system.

If you have time, it is recommended to take a stroll on Gulangyu Island in the evening or at night, because Gulangyu is very small, and the night view project is doing quite well, so you can take a walk and watch the sea while looking at the night view of Gulangyu Island and Xiamen Island, and listen to the soft music on the lanes of Gulangyu Island. Gulangyu is quite quiet at night, with basically no noise. Many of the locals on Gulangyu have now bought houses on Xiamen Island and relocated out. There are quite a few people from Anhui living on Gulangyu now, some pulling crates, some buying tourist goods, etc.

2. Nanputuo:

The Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen is the best-known ancient temple in southern Fujian, with incense burning all year round, and frequent worshippers and tourists from home and abroad. Especially during the Guanyin Christmas, which is celebrated three times a year, there are crowds of people everywhere from the night before. Nanputuo is famous for its vegetarian cakes and dishes, so you can try them out when you have time.

3. Garden Expo Park:

Garden Expo Park is Xiamen a few years ago when the Sixth China Garden Expo was held, Garden Expo Park inside the collection of the world and around the country a variety of garden landscaping and architecture, inside the beautiful scenery, there is a large-scale waterfront musical fountain show at night. The garden is far from the city to nearly 20 kilometers away, and the garden inside is quite large, a day may not be able to carefully all stroll through. If you don't want to walk and want to see all the attractions in 1 day, the suggestion is to go to do the electric car, but that has wasted the meaning of the tour.

4. As for other attractions, such as: Jimei Aoyuan, Hulishan Fortress, underwater world, etc., the recommendation is not to go, because there is basically nothing worth playing in depth.

Four, entertainment

1. nightclubs:

Xiamen's nightlife is more developed, the number of nightclubs is quite large in Xiamen is more famous, the lady is more of the following: a generation of good people, the flower of the year, 532, the Golden Bottle. These nightclubs have as many as a thousand people around the Miss and models can come to accompany guests to drink and have fun. The minimum spending for the performance halls and private rooms of these famous nightclubs is more than 800 RMB. In Xiamen nightclubs inside the most drunk alcohol is foreign wine, which drink more brands are Baume & Mercier Martell, Cordon Bleu. Generally speaking the first bottle of wine inside the nightclub is real, but after that a few more bottles of wine may be added to the fake wine appeared, need to pay attention to prevent. Tips in Xiamen nightclubs are usually 300 RMB, and mamas are also 300 RMB. If you have more money, you can choose to send flowers, baskets, or even crowns, which cost 1,000 RMB, while crowns are 10,000 RMB. Nightclubs in Xiamen are still a bit pricey in general, but there are more mm's to choose from.

2. Bar:

Xiamen's bar in recent years is more red-hot, more famous, mainly two: Dushan and 1801. these two bars are quite a large number of beautiful women and handsome, are slow-rocking bar, the atmosphere is better, free time to go to relax and relax. As for KK, because it is disco, too noisy, easy to get out of things. Xiamen's bar street, now has greatly not, inside the environment of the facilities are aging, the flow of people is also very little, slowly declining. Recently opened a new photography plaza in Egret Island, No. 9 Perfume Bar, are in the delivery of vodka vouchers, vouchers for a free bottle of Blue Sky vodka, you can go to try to see.

3. Sauna:

The number of saunas in Xiamen is quite large, basically everywhere. The number of saunas with formal services is relatively small, mainly Regent, etc. The mid-range formal saunas are mainly Zhen Yuan Tang, Fu Yuan Tang, Big Bucket Water and Old House. As for most of the saunas basically do special services, generally speaking the price of the service is more than 300 dollars. Xiamen sauna never police to check, quite safe, because in order to let tourists are in Xiamen to live a night, more consumption, drive the development of the night economy.

4. Hot springs

There are two hot springs outside of Xiamen, one is near Dingxi Reservoir in Tong'an, and one is really near Dongfu Town in Haicang. In these two areas, the most famous hot spring resort hotels are: Best Western Cui Feng Hot Spring Resort under the Best Western, Sun Moon Valley Hot Spring Resort. Both hot spring resort hotels are 5-star, both hotels have a special car to take tourists from Xiamen to the resort for free. The Cui Feng Hot Spring Hotel will feel slightly better. And recently the Best Western Cui Feng Hot Springs has been doing activities, 99 yuan hot springs and then a free buffet, quite cost-effective.

Five, shopping

1. shopping malls:

Xiamen more well-known and reliable shopping department stores are: Paris Spring Department Store, Laiya Department Store, Rainbow Department Store. These have high visibility and branches in Xiamen, Xiamen people usually shopping often go to the place. As for the purchase of gucci, dunhill, maxmara, hermes, EMPORIO ARMANI and other internationally renowned brands, is to go to Xiamen, Xiamen Panji Shopping Center, Xiamen's high-grade brands are all concentrated there, where there are often Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Shishi consumers to this shopping consumption. Xiamen's commercial street is mainly in Zhongshan Road and its neighboring streets, Zhongshan Road above the collection of various large department stores and various types of stores, is the Xiamen people shopping often go to the place, the end of Zhongshan Road is the ferry, that is, you can see directly to the Gulangyu Island place.

2. Specialties:

If you want to buy some of Xiamen's specialties, Xiamen's specialties are sold in many places, but it is recommended that you do not buy them around the attractions. To buy Xiamen specialties is best to go inside the supermarket to buy, and it is best to go to Wal-Mart, good and more, Carrefour, Metro and other well-known large supermarkets to buy, where the goods are more real, buy more assured. Xiamen's specialties are mainly: Qingjin fruit, pies, fish skin Huangsheng, dried seafood and so on.

3. Tea:

The number of tea stores in Xiamen is quite large, basically everywhere, where you can meet one or two. Inside these tea stores you can see the southern Fujian people's tea ceremony and tea culture, the general tea store will let the guests taste for free, to be satisfied with the guests and then let the guests decide to buy which price of tea. Xiamen people drink tea is now generally and Anxi tea and oolong tea, and tea stores sell basically Anxi tea. There are many tea store owners are Anxi people, they know how to determine the good or bad tea, often go to Anxi to buy their own tea back to processing, in the first few years of the tea business is booming, a lot of Anxi people in Xiamen to open a tea store to earn a lot of money, are buying a house and a car. However, Anxi tea has a bad place is easy to hurt the stomach, and now there are some unscrupulous businessmen in order to make Anxi tea bubble more fragrant, look more green, in the processing of tea to add some coloring and flavoring, and if you don't know about tea, go to the tea store to buy Anxi tea, it is easy to be more than the slaughter, especially for tourists. If you want to drink tea, it is recommended to drink oolong tea or rock tea, because it is ripe tea, fermented, does not hurt the stomach, and artificial coloring and flavoring basically did not join. If you want to buy oolong tea and rock tea, it is recommended to buy oolong tea and rock tea produced by Xiamen Tea Factory, Xiamen Tea Factory produces most of these teas are directly exported to foreign countries, the quality is guaranteed, and Xiamen Tea Factory produces a lot of products at many price points, suitable for all classes of people, from 7 yuan to thousands of dollars a packet of all have.

V. Transportation

1. Taxi:

Xiamen has a large number of cabs, more than 5,000, but basically are concentrated in Xiamen Island. The starting price for a cab in Xiamen is 8 yuan/3 kilometers, with an additional 2 yuan per kilometer thereafter, a 50% fill-in-the-blank fee after 8 kilometers, and a 50% nighttime subsidy fee after 11pm. Since Xiamen Island is relatively small, a cab in Xiamen Island is normally more than 10 yuan and more than 20 yuan, up to 40 yuan near the furthest. Cab models in Xiamen are mainly Santana 3000, Hyundai Sonata and Kia Fargo. The larger cab companies are Straits and Kunchi, but the cab company with the best service is Straits, and their drivers will be better. Tourists if there are some problems in the cab ride, it is recommended to immediately give a call to the complaint phone, give the driver to complain, Xiamen in this area of regulation is relatively in place, for tourists' complaints will be dealt with in a timely manner.

2. BRT:

Xiamen's BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is actually the same as the light rail in Beijing and other places, except that Xiamen is running buses on the bridge instead of trains. Currently Xiamen's BRT has three main lines, namely: Express Line 1 from the first pier to the Overseas Chinese University Xiamen, Express Line 2 from the first pier to Xike, Express Line 3 from the first pier to the Xiamen Convention and Exhibition Center. BRT in Xiamen island mainly Xiamen Harvest Road and Lianqian Avenue on the road, and in the other roads there are the appropriate connections shuttle buses to the BRT various stations. The cost of taking the BRT is very low, lower than the bus, from a few cents to 1.5 yuan, and because the BRT is really traveling in the air, so there will be no traffic jam.

3. Buses:

Xiamen's bus lines are very many, basically all the buses in all areas of the island and beyond, the buses are generally in the evening at 10 o'clock in the annex to close, 6 o'clock in the morning in the annex to start business. Xiamen buses, air-conditioned cars are 2 yuan, ordinary buses are 1 yuan, as for out of Xiamen Island to the off-island areas of the bus should be different prices in different areas.