Lao Yang Fang (老洋房), Houjie Baotun

Lao Yang Fang (老洋房) is a clay-pot restaurant at 96 Dongbao Road in Baotun Village, Houjie Town, Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China. Houjie is an industrial and commercial town in southwestern Dongguan, and Baotun is a village area within it, so the restaurant offers a local, village-setting alternative to the city-centre dining rooms. The menu emphasises clay-pot cooking, a Cantonese method in which ingredients are simmered or steamed in a heavy pot so flavours concentrate and the food stays hot at the table. Signature dishes include the radish and duck-larynx pot (萝卜鸭喉煲), a braise that pairs tender radish with the crunchy texture of duck larynx, and the sausage rice pot (腊肠饭煲), in which Cantonese cured sausage flavours rice cooked in a pot with a crisp base. No chef lineage or Michelin recognition is documented, and the interest is the home-style cooking and the setting. The name, meaning old foreign-style house, suggests a building of character, but specific dining-room details are not published, so visitors should not assume a particular style. Expect a casual Cantonese dining room with moderate noise and no dress code. There is no notable wine programme; tea, beer and soft drinks are typical. Opening hours are not published in sources and should be confirmed by phone on +86 769 8503 8688, which is also the number for reservations. Booking ahead is sensible for weekends and groups, since clay-pot dishes take time to prepare. Prices are mid-range ($$), and a table of three or four can share one or two pots with rice and a vegetable dish. Houjie is known nationally for its furniture and trade-fair activity, so the town sees business visitors as well as locals, and the restaurant can be reached by taxi or ride-hailing from Houjie town centre or from central Dongguan.