About Cloud 9 Yangshuo
Cloud 9 was the iconic Yangshuo restaurant on West Street for seventeen years until the COVID-19 closures forced the original location to shut in 2020. The brand has since relocated to a purpose-built renovated-farmhouse property at 33 Bin Jiang Road, where it operates as both a Western-friendly Chinese restaurant and a cooking school. The new location is twenty minutes by foot south of West Street's central square and runs as a single integrated experience — afternoon cooking class, evening dinner, optional overnight stay in the small attached guesthouse.
The kitchen is what made the original Cloud 9 a Yangshuo institution — Chinese cuisine cooked competently for Western palates, with the Guilin rice noodles (a regional dish of round wheat-and-rice noodles in a clear pork-bone broth, topped with thin-sliced beef, peanuts, and pickled mustard greens) and Yangshuo Beer Fish as the signature dishes. A standard meal of Guilin rice noodles, beer fish, stuffed Yangshuo tofu, and a small portion of stir-fried bamboo runs ¥150-200 per person.
The cooking school operates as a half-day class — visitors arrive at 10am, walk the local Yangshuo wet market with the chef, then return to Cloud 9's kitchen and learn to cook three dishes (typically beer fish, stuffed Yangshuo tofu, and Guilin rice noodles), then sit down to eat what they've made for lunch. The class costs ¥250 per person. Most participants book the class through Cloud 9's website or hotel concierge; a few hours' notice suffices outside Chinese-tourist-peak weeks.
The renovated-farmhouse setting is what gives the new Cloud 9 its identity — original 1950s wood-and-tile architecture, a central courtyard with mature mulberry trees, an open kitchen visible from most dining seats, and bay windows facing the surrounding karst mountains. The room sleeps twenty across the dining hall plus a small terrace for outdoor dinners in summer. English menus and English-speaking staff are universal; this is the cleanest Western-friendly Yangshuo dining option.
Best Occasion Fit
First dates with travel-curious partners — the cooking-school-and-dinner format gives the date both an activity and a meal. Solo travellers fit the cooking-class lunch service; the class is structured as both meal and tour. Team dinners with up to ten work in the dining hall.
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