I Ate Horse Meat At Hao Da Ma

We had planned to go for the 2-river 4-lake tour at 8pm on our first night in Guilin. Since it was still early, we had walked around the huge Central Square and busied ourselves snapping photos.

After that, we crossed the bustling Zhongshan Road to the opposite side where a few shopping complexes were situated. It was time for dinner and we decided to look for restaurants inside one of these shopping complexes.

We chanced upon Hao Da Ma Restaurant ( 好大妈美食) on the 6th floor of Niko Niko Do Plaza (aka Weixiao Tang 微笑堂 ), the largest multi-storey shopping mall in Guilin.



There were a lot of stalls located in the middle of the restaurant where you could select and order the food you want. They would cook the dishes you ordered and deliver to your table.

Once your food is delivered to your table, it is recorded with a chop on the corresponding column as shown below.



We ordered cheong fun and broccoli.



And some meat dumplings to be shared among the three of us.



We walked around searching for the main dish for each of us. Then we saw this.



We zeroed in on this - horse meat rice noodles (马肉米粉)!! Yes, horse meat! So each of us ordered one bowl of horse meat rice noodles.



Rice noodles is a very common dish in Guilin and I would be eating quite a lot of rice noodles during my stay here. The bowl of noodles usually comes with fried peanuts which I thought was very strange at first, but I soon found out that the peanuts really enhance the taste of the noodles!



The pieces of meat you see there are of course horse meat. It was my first time eating horse meat! But I really did not find it that unique or different from other types of meat.



Our dinner came to about 18 yuan (RM8.50) per person. Not bad at all!

After dinner, we got stuck in a long queue at the lift. I realized it was past 7.30pm. We had to make our way to the Li River banks fast for the 2-river 4-lake tour!

We crossed the road and reached Central Square. But something happened! Somehow we could not find our way to the Li River banks from Central Square. It was almost 8pm. After walking for some time, we realized we were back at Central Square! Oh no!!

Did we make it for the tour? Find out in my next post, coming right up!

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