3 Best Restaurants in Ningbo, Eastern China

On the eastern edge of Moon Lake, this Middle Eastern restaurant has consistently excellent food. One bite of the olive-oil-and-pine-nut-drizzled hummus, and you'll be hooked.

The spinach dumplings and mock-meat dishes served at this vegetarian restaurant are as nourishing as they are delicious. Ordering is a breeze, thanks to an English-language picture menu.

At this restaurant on the Yu Yao River, near the He Yi shopping complex's western end, you step through gigantic red-and-gold doors into an antiques-filled dining room, where hostesses in elaborate silk dresses welcome you. The Ningbo cuisine is as traditional as the setting: steamed turtle, fried yellow-fish with fresh blueberries, pork ribs.