Hangzhou Cuisine Museum
A panoramic exhibition tracing Hangzhou cuisine from the dining customs of Southern Song Lin'an to the modern-day table: the food models are astonishingly lifelike (Dongpo pork, West Lake vinegar fish, and Longjing shrimp all look real enough to eat), and after one visit you'll understand "why Hangzhou food is light, fresh, and gently sweet"
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- 10:00-17:00 · closed Mondays
- Ticket
- Free
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
A panoramic exhibition tracing Hangzhou cuisine from the dining customs of Southern Song Lin'an to the modern-day table: the food models are astonishingly lifelike (Dongpo pork, West Lake vinegar fish, and Longjing shrimp all look real enough to eat), and after one visit you'll understand "why Hangzhou food is light, fresh, and gently sweet." The museum sits inside Jiangyangfan Ecological Park, with wetland flower beds as part of the setting. Free admission, closed Mondays; it pairs well with the zoo/Hupao (Tiger Spring) route — visit, then head straight out for a meal.
Getting there: Inside Jiangyangfan Ecological Park
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More in Hangzhou
- Xixi National Wetland
Boat maze of reeds and water villages west of the city.
- West Lake
UNESCO lake of pagodas, causeways and arched bridges; boat or bike the shoreline.
- Lingyin Temple
Buddhist temple founded 326 AD amid grottoes of Song-era rock carvings.
- Longjing Tea Village
Terraced Dragon Well tea fields; tastings at family farms.
- West Lake Loop
A World Heritage Site (inscribed in 2011): an urban lake with misty hills on three sides and the city on the fourth, dredged in succession by two of its governors, Bai Juyi and Su Dongpo; Su Shi's verse "wishing to compare West Lake to the beauty Xi Shi" made it a byword for Eastern aesthetics
- Su Causeway & Bai Causeway
Su Causeway, 2.8 km long, was built from dredged silt when Su Shi dredged West Lake; six bridges span the lake, with peach trees and willows lining both banks—"Misty Willows over Six Bridges" is the top spring scene