Xiamen has three streets, which are famous for concentrated eating places. They are the front section of South Lotus Road, Food Street along Xiamen University Street and the middle section of North Lakeside Road (Hubingbei Lu), and Huahui Food Street on Zhongshan Road.
The front section of South Lotus Road enjoys geographical advantage and convenient transportation, as it is one of the busiest business areas of Xiamen City. The Street is lined with 18 big restaurants and hotels and other eating places of different scales. Each of the 18 big restaurants and hotels has their own features and styles. Also located here are Fragrant Lotus Restaurant (Haoqingxiang Lianhua Jiulou), with is famous for its long history and repute, Douhuazhuang with Taiwanese feature, Xiyuedi Café providing western pastry. Each of the restaurants on this street observes the state standards governing the services of tourist restaurants and hotels and designated restaurants for tourists. By participating in the quality service competition, these restaurants have made great progress with respect to service quality. Doing business in a fair and just way, entertaining guests politely, selling commodities at marked prices and not selling fake and shoddy products have become common practice here.

The Food Street along Xiamen University Street and the middle section of North Lakeside Road (Hubingbei Lu) has distinctive features, too. The former has 35 restaurants mainly providing local food and the latter has 9 restaurants engaged in hot pots. Huahui Food Street boasts 22 restaurants good at various typical local dishes. A lot of citizens and tourists come to these two streets for delicious food.