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Fujian cuisine reinvented, with yellow croaker in wine or mud crab; one Michelin star.
Official websitehilton.com→Fujian and Cantonese cuisine, private rooms with city and sea views; Michelin Guide selection.
Official websitehilton.com→Cantonese and Minnan cuisine facing the sunset over Wuyuan Bay; Michelin Guide selection.
Official websitelohkahhotel.com→Cantonese and Fujian cuisine, known for its dim sum.
Official websitepanpacific.com→Fujian and Cantonese cuisine with views of Yundang Lake, and eleven private rooms.
Official websitepullman.accor.com→Traditional Minnan cuisine, with a few Cantonese dishes.
Official websitehilton.com→Fujian, Cantonese and Taiwanese cuisine, with nine private rooms.
Official websiteall.accor.com→Home-style cooking of the overseas Chinese, between Fujian and Southeast Asia, in an island villa.
Official websitemarriott.com→Local and Western dishes, then tea or coffee in the courtyard of a late-Qing mansion.
Official websiteslh.com→Contemporary European cuisine and local seafood, with views of Gulangyu; Michelin Guide selection.
Official websitehilton.com→Restaurant and lounge facing the harbour and Gulangyu, on the seafront.
Official websiteihg.com→The city’s signature dish: noodles in a broth made with shacha sauce (peanut, dried shrimp, spices), with toppings of your choice. Several stalls feature in the Michelin Guide, without an official website.
Small oysters, starch and egg fried on a griddle, served with a sweet-and-sour sauce.
Sea-worm jelly served cold with vinegar, garlic and coriander: the local curiosity to try.
A Minnan sweet of melt-in-the-mouth peanuts, served hot or cold.
Xiamen has its own Michelin Guide, but almost all its street stalls and small family restaurants have no official website: we therefore list only tables that do, nearly all in hotels. To taste popular Minnan food (shacha noodles, oyster omelette, sea-worm jelly), head for the stalls of Zhongshan Road, Shapowei and the lanes of Gulangyu: we present them at the end of the page, without links.
Header photo: Seafood shacha noodles — Windmemories, CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons