Life of Guangzhou - Where to Feast On Top Ice Creams and Desserts in GZ?

Local names like Shunji and Nanxin, and move-in caterers like Xuliushan and Haagen-Dazs are your top-choices to savor Cantonese-style milk, ice cream and other pleasing desserts.

Your guide to all things that melt! And more…

Qingfangyuan Dessert Lounge
A time-honored dessert lounge best known for its tasty and inexpensive ginger milk.

Xuliushan
A Hong Kong-based business, small and usually crowded with customers buying their mango-flavoured water ice.

Mango Pudding of Xuliushan.[pclady.com.cn]

Shunji
Shunji is famous for its inexpensive, hand-made ice creams which are all made from fresh fruit. Most popular are the mango and coconut flavors.

Coconut-flavor ice cream, a signature delicacy of Shunji Ice cream shop.

Baihua Dessert Lounge
Another time-honored dessert lounge with many desserts and sweet soups, most of which are worth trying. Prices are reasonable and the place is crowded most of the time.

Shawan Ginger Milk
Located in one of the four famous gardens in Guangzhou-YuyinShanfang Garden. Famous for its ginger concoction, made from buffalo milk. Waiters will happily introduce the history of ginger milk and even show you how to make it.

Well-received double-layer milk of Nanxin Milk & Dessert.

Nanxin Milk & Dessert
Try the ginger milk and double-layer milk and see if you don't agree it's worthy of the title top ginger milk maker in Guangzhou. The ginger milk and milk egg both have strong flavors.

Fenfang Dessert
Despite its poor environment and service, you can enjoy delicious fried dumplings and a range of low priced goodies here.

Haagen-Dazs
Delicious but soooooo expensive! However, the shop is clean, quiet and professional.

Weiji Dessert
A well-known dessert lounge serving all kinds of braised desserts.

DandyDons
The ice cream tastes good, and at 10 Yuan per portion, compares well with many other foreign brands.

(By David Kelleway and Ronald Li)