Sichuan dinner at Ba Guo Bu Yi Restaurant @ Shanghai, China

Ba Guo Bu Yi is a famous restaurant chain in China serving good sichuan style (ma la) or spicy cooking. What's great about this restaurant is that they also have great face changing performances. The face changing show starts at 8pm every evening, the performance is short but entertaining. The energetic performer leaps and bounds in dramatic fashion, his face flashing through a range of colors and expressions in seconds. He even departs the stage and walk around the crowd and pose for pictures after the show. There are twenty Ba Guo Bu Yi outlets across China including Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Sanya and Nanjing. There are also three stores in Chengdu itself, including the flagship store where seats are particularly hard to come by, but booking at any and all is definitely recommended, especially if you want to catch the show.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. The meal is excellent with a type of spiciness that I never taste before. The pepper used is different compared to the pepper that I normally take. The sichuan fish in dried and pepper is a must try with melt in your mouth chili oil. Really good).



This slices of pork with cucumber taste great with the spicy sauce which comes with it. Finely sliced pork belly hanging over small wooden trestles, ready to be wrapped around slices of cucumber and spring onion.

Good presentation and taste great.

Very nice packaging of chopstick and tissue paper.

Dried chili and dried pepper fish. This dish is superb and tasty. However beware. Its super spicy.

Dried chili mutton with vegetables.


Beef stomach with braised spicy peanut.

Ma la spicy bean curd. Looks at the red paste surrounding the bean curd. Spicy!

Famous China Tsingtao beer. The beer taste good and have a trace of sweetness.

The Tsingtao beer is a bit light in colour.

Kailan with oyster sauce.

Impressive face changing show.

The face changing man came to our table. He smiled when I wanted to take picture :-)

Quite a big crowd in the restaurant.

This is the restaurant signboard.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.211339, 121.423489
Address: 1018 Dingxi Road, Changning, Shanghai, China.

Shanghainese dinner @ Ying Pot restaurant, Shanghai, China

This restaurant was recommended by the hostel staff at the place that I stayed. Usually I will try the local food when I arrived at a new place. In my opinion the food in Shanghai is not much different compared to chinese food in Malaysia. The only exception is the taste in Shanghai is more strong and saltier. Most of the cooking here will use soy sauce to braise meat especially pork and dried chili for spicy "ma lat" type of cooking. The decoration inside the restaurant were nice and with air-conditioned. The location of this restaurant is very convenient as its near to Nanjing Road shopping street.

Taste:8/10(Good. The good here overall is good just that a bit salty. Their braised beef stomach taste great with good texture and I like this the most. The pork tail were good as well but the portion is too big for a single person to finish it. The sweet potato dessert were just nice).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Pork tail soy bean at 56 Yuan, braised beef stomach at 32 Yuan, sweet potato dessert at 16 Yuan. Total bill were 104 Yuan).


Pork tail braised soy beans.

Braised beef stomach.

Sweet potato dessert.

Ying Pot restaurant on Shanxi South Road in Shanghai.

GPS/Coordinate: 31.237916, 121.481831
Address: 239 Shanxi South Road, Huangpu, Shanghai, China.
Public transport: East Nanjing Road station exit no 1 on Shanghai Metro via line 2 or line 10.