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4 hoursOne-on-oneFutian
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Late night & drinking food
Crayfish & the Late Table
大排档
The meal Shenzhen has at eleven at night, on plastic stools, with your hands.
4 hoursOne-on-oneLuohu / FutianCA$40.00
Dàpáidàng is the open-air late-night table: garlic crayfish by the tray, noodles, cold beer, and a table that stays up long after the restaurants have folded their napkins. It is the most social meal in the city and the hardest one to walk into alone, because the ordering is verbal, the menu is a wall, and the good places are unmarked.
How the four hours run
Times are elapsed from your meeting point, not clock times — you pick the start hour at checkout.
0:00
A cold one, standing up
We start with a drink and a walk past three or four options so you can see the difference between a table that is busy and a table that is busy with locals.
0:40
The crayfish order
Garlic, spicy, or thirteen-spice — the argument that splits every table in the city. We order more than one so you get to have an opinion.
1:40
Everything that goes with it
Grilled oysters, clams in black bean, fried rice noodles, greens with garlic. Your buddy orders around what you liked instead of running a fixed list.
2:40
The part where you stop being a tourist
Nobody at this table is in a hurry. This is the hour people actually talk — about the city, the work, why anyone moves to Shenzhen at twenty-three.
3:30
Home, or one more street
A car called to your hotel, or a last walk if the night is behaving.
What is included
- Four hours one-on-one at a table you would not have found
- Ordering, translating and the spice level negotiated honestly
- A ride home called and explained to the driver
What is not
- Food and drinks — you pay the table directly
- The ride itself
Good for
- Solo travellers who do not want to eat alone
- Seafood people
- Anyone who has done the daytime version of a city
One thing worth knowing
Wear something you do not mind wearing garlic on afterwards. There is no elegant way to eat crayfish and nobody at the table is attempting one.
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