Quanjing Lou Restaurant (Jinkeng Village)

Quanjing Lou Restaurant (全景楼, literally the panoramic building) is a village restaurant in Jinkeng Village, near the Xishan Shaole No. 1 viewpoint in the Longji Rice Terraces, Longsheng County, Guilin, in Guangxi, China. Jinkeng is the home of the Red Yao people, and the terraces around it are among the most photographed landscapes in the region. The restaurant sits beside the Jinkeng viewpoint trail, so it works as a meal stop for hikers walking between the viewpoints and the village. The cuisine is Longji village cooking centred on bamboo-tube dishes, a local method in which glutinous rice or chicken is packed into a section of fresh bamboo and roasted over a fire so that the bamboo flavours the food. Signature dishes are bamboo-tube sticky rice and bamboo-tube chicken, each priced at roughly ¥20-30 (about $3-4) per portion. The sticky rice has a light smoky, grassy aroma and is usually eaten by splitting the bamboo open, while the chicken is cooked in its own juices and tends to be tender. The cooking is rustic and regional, with no chef lineage or Michelin context, and ingredients often come from the surrounding mountains. The dining room is informal, with simple tables, open windows or a terrace toward the terraces, moderate noise and a casual crowd of walkers and day-trippers in outdoor clothing. A formal beverage programme is not documented, and diners generally drink tea, soft drinks or local rice wine, which is a regional specialty in Longji. Average spend is low because individual bamboo-tube dishes cost about ¥20-30. Reservations are not needed since walk-ins are accepted, but bamboo-tube dishes are cooked to order and can take 30 to 40 minutes, so ordering early helps. Visitors can search 全景楼 on Amap (Gaode), Dianping or Meituan to locate the restaurant within the village. Jinkeng is reached by road from Guilin via Longsheng, and the walk uphill between viewpoints is steep, so a meal here is a natural rest stop.