Where to Eat in Anqing – Top Food Streets & Restaurants

North Main Street is Anqing’s iconic snack street lined with countless distinctive eateries, a thoroughfare seemingly built entirely for food lovers, packed with restaurants of all sizes.

For breakfast, try stir-fried noodles and pork meatball liver soup – tasty and nourishing, served at nearly every small shop here. The best spot sits right next to Beizheng Meatball Shop (note: the shop beside it, not the meatball shop itself). Its stir-fried noodles use fresh bird’s eye chilies instead of chili powder; the pork meatballs are incredibly tender. Order extra meatballs and less pork liver for the perfect bowl.

Down the slope near the detention center on North Main Street, an elderly lady runs a fantastic steamed bun shop – you’ll spot it by the thick steam billowing out every morning. Next door is Yihua Beef Offal Restaurant, newly renovated and expanded, a sign of its booming business; their beef noodles come highly recommended.

There is also Chizhou Zhang’s Crayfish Restaurant, famous across Anqing for braised crayfish and spicy crab. Its signature beer braising method removes seafood’s fishy odor while locking in tender, juicy meat that leaves a lasting aftertaste. The pan-fried dumplings here are also hugely popular and well worth a try.

Located in central Anqing, Haochi Street sits close to Renmin Road, the city’s busiest thoroughfare, surrounded by shopping malls and commercial towers. It serves as Anqing’s core business and trade hub.

The street is always packed on weekends. Groups of friends, hungry after a full day of shopping, often come here late at night to order one or two bowls of lamb bread soup paired with skewers of grilled food for a unique dining experience. Grilled dishes from Grandma’s Grill Shop are the top pick here.

An extension of Anqing’s snack district, Qianpailou Street features eateries side by side without gaps. Standouts include Boss Wu’s Beef Noodle House, King of Northeast Dumplings, and a wide range of local Anhui home-style restaurants – a paradise for foodies.

The menu offers endless choices: beef hand-pulled noodles, beef vermicelli soup, Indian roti, clay pot rice, egg pancakes and more. Prices are extremely affordable too. A clay pot rice that costs 20 to 30 yuan elsewhere only runs 10 yuan here.

Two more food hotspots you cannot miss are Lvba Street, between Renmin Road and Xiaosu Road, and the well-known Shuangjing Street.

At the entrance of Lvba Street near the Workers’ Theatre lies a humble-looking breakfast stall serving the finest versions of four classic morning bites: small steamed soup buns, fried dough cakes, mung bean ball soup and sweet fermented rice wine. Add their house chili powder to the mung bean balls, and ask for less sugar in the rice wine. Permanent stalls selling mini steamed rice cakes line the street year-round, alongside a decades-old mobile cart specializing in egg pancakes.

Shuangjing Street’s most legendary spot is Weijia Lane Glutinous Rice Ball Shop, in operation since before the founding of the People’s Republic of China and still thriving today. Even outside the Lantern Festival, long queues form daily for its glutinous rice balls