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        COMPARED to other food streets in Shenzhen, Bagua Yilu food street features restaurants with a comparatively long history and very authentic Cantonese dishes. In some Shenzhen guidebooks, mostly the ones written for and by Hong Kongers, this street is always the first recommendation.

　　Bagua Yilu is not the longest food street in Shenzhen, as a result there are not as nearly many restaurants as on other food streets like Zhenhua Road. But locals describe the quality of many of these restaurants as top notch because they were the earliest successful eateries in Shenzhen.

　　The earliest successful eateries were mainly restaurants serving Cantonese food and were especially good at cooking wildlife. This fact almost set the style for this street. For a long time, Bagua Yilu has enjoyed high popularity for the wild choice of snake and game.

　　Despite the worrying fact that rare birds and animals have been eaten more or less to extinction, the street has kept its fame for the restaurants superb skill in making snake dishes.

　　The most popular place in this neighborhood is no doubt Hui Ji Snake Restaurant, even though their specialty—snake— is not inevitably accepted by everybody. But to patrons who are addicted to snake, Hui Ji is simply the best. From cold dishes made with snake tail to main dishes like snake rolls with spiced salt and traditional snake soup, the restaurant demonstrates the highest standard of food that you can make with snake.

　　But as restaurants of other regional flavors came to Shenzhen, eateries of other cuisines emerged on this predominantly Cantonese street.

　　Here it is possible to see old chefs making northern style cakes standing only a few yards away from young men who are busy peeling snake s skin outside HuiJi, while Bawang Fu's waitresses in traditional Manstyle clothes wave to pedestrians across the street. In the air the blended fragrance of Xinjiang roast lamb and the stock of Sichuan hotpot mix, and the rhythm of Beijing opera is echoed by greeting calls in strong Sichuan dialect.

　　It is difficult to explain the popularity of Bagua Yilu even as a local, for the street in only an alley in a renovated industrial area miles away from the city center. Even though traditional Cantonese dishes built the fame of the street, the prosperity of it is likely to be carried on by the newly arrived regional cuisines.

Editor: Zhang Chunhua

By:  Source：szdaily