Food & Drink

A plaza built around the Minghua, a French-built liner beached here in the 1980s and kept rather than scrapped. On a Friday night it is western Shenzhen’s village green; go on a Tuesday if you want to hear yourself think. The Shekou restaurants page has the eating.

The CBD’s standing answer to “where shall we meet”. Shops by day, late bars at the eastern end after work. From about nine on a Friday it is one of the busiest nightlife blocks in the city; on a Tuesday it is nothing at all.

Nanshan eating is mall eating and the malls are good; this is the pleasant one to walk, laid out as an open-air street rather than a sealed box. Search the Chinese name in Dianping or Amap — English names send you to the wrong branch.

The tallest building in the city until Ping An passed it. Forget observation tickets and buy a drink upstairs: same view, better chair. Budget accordingly — a domestic draft in a local place runs ¥5–25 and an expat-bar pint ¥30–60, with craft or imported beer ¥45–70; a room with this view sits above all of them. Broad estimates as of August 2026.

The best sunset in the city, facing the water beside Talent Park. Book a window table and go early enough to watch the light change over the bay. Reckon on roughly ¥100–300 a head for food, and more once drinks are involved — estimates as of August 2026.