The places to eat Cantonese food in Hangzhou are Cuiyuan, Tanggong, Yueshun Restaurant, West Lake Spring and Gangli Restaurant.

1. Cuiyuan

Cuiyuan is the only branch in Kerry Center in Hangzhou, with elegant decoration, exquisite tableware and pleasant service. Cuiyuan dishes are famous for their delicacies, and the names of each dish clearly and directly show the ingredients and practices, which is convenient for diners to choose. Featured foods include freshly ground soybean milk soaked in star spots, roast goose with Lunjiao sheep's forehead, fried chicken with black bean sauce, soaked vegetables with soybean milk with cordyceps sinensis, and baked vegetables with Portuguese sauce.

2. Tang Gong

Tang Gong is a sub-brand established by Hong Kong Tang Gong Catering Group in 1995. The dishes in Tang Palace are basically the same in every city, with a slight difference that local specialties will be added. The Wanxianghui store in Tang Palace is decorated brightly and generously, with white tablecloths and comfortable seats. The overall yellow harmonious streamlined crystal chandelier makes people feel honored. Featured foods include pigeon with gold medal in Tang Palace, roast goose emperor in Tang Palace, Canadian lobster baked with black pepper, thick potato and silver cod pot, black truffle sauce with Liaoshen, thick soup with chicken wings, and nourishing stewed snails.

3. Yueshun Restaurant

In Hang Cheng, the first restaurant that cooks Shunde food is Yueshun. Yueshun restaurant, which has been in business for several years, has not been advertised, but has won many repeat customers only by word of mouth. The environmental decoration is simple and generous, decorated with bamboo basket lampshades, calligraphy paintings, black soft sofas, brown round tables and other items. The specialties include bacon-flavored clay pot rice, hot pot at the bottom of porridge, local chicken stew pot, fried eggs with shrimp pine nuts, bullfrog and boiled squid.

4. West Lake Spring

The decoration of the West Lake in spring is novel and elegant. The black sofa is matched with the white tablecloth, the wall is decorated with oil paintings, and the red chandelier and wine cabinet are decorated. The production of West Lake in spring is remarkable, and some dishes have won prizes. Taking delicacy, deliciousness and health as the dietary concept, and adhering to the cooking tenet of strict selection of materials, meticulous production and emphasis on original flavor, we select Guangdong-Hangzhou dishes and Hong Kong-style dim sum. Special cuisine includes grilled lamb chops with cheese, stewed pigeon with carved flowers, tofu cake with Xishi, health-preserving Dendrobium and Liaoshen soup, and braised abalone wings.

5. Gangli Restaurant

Gangli Restaurant is the largest Cantonese restaurant in Hangzhou. Its facade is very low-key, but its flavor is good. The decoration of the restaurant is a little old, and the color tone is mainly yellow and brown, which is the style of the old Cantonese restaurant. Gangli's menu has a high degree of overlap with Cantonese restaurants in Guangdong. Apart from the common roast flavor, brine and soup, there are also many special dishes in the menu. The specialties include Longteng Sihai, boiled conch in oatmeal pool, fish mouth with ginger and onion, suckling pig with charred skin, bittern platter and steamed Alaska crab with carved chicken oil.