Halal Food in Guangzhou for Canton Fair 2026: Best Muslim-Friendly Restaurants

Many Muslim buyers spend the day at the Canton Fair complex in Pazhou, then travel on to suppliers, factories or business meetings. Because your stops change through the day, restaurant location matters as much as the food itself.

The easiest strategy is usually to plan halal meals around your day's route — a lunch near where your afternoon meeting is, a dinner on the way back to your hotel — rather than choosing a restaurant only by how close it is to the exhibition hall.

• Xiaobei & Yuexiu — one of the better-known parts of the city for Middle Eastern, Central Asian and other halal dining, with a long-established international community.
• Liwan & Ximen — home to Xinjiang and Cantonese-Muslim (Hui) restaurants, including long-running spots popular with locals.
• Tianhe — the modern commercial centre, convenient if you're staying or meeting in the city's business district.
• Xicun — Central Asian options are among the choices here.

The restaurant directory below shows the area for each listing, so you can match a meal to wherever your day takes you.

The Canton Fair complex is in Pazhou (Haizhu District), while many of Guangzhou's established halal restaurants are in other parts of the city — Yuexiu, Liwan, Tianhe and beyond. So rather than assuming every option is a short walk from the halls, it's more realistic to expect a short ride to a good halal meal.

This is exactly why transport planning helps: with a private car, you can stay near the fair and still reach a trusted halal restaurant when you want one, without arranging a new ride each time.

A simple way to avoid mid-day stress is to slot meals into your route in advance. A typical fair day:

Morning

Lunch

Afternoon

Dinner

Business days have their own rhythm, and your meals need to fit around meetings rather than the other way around. Common needs:

• An early breakfast before heading to the fair or a factory.
• A quick, reliable lunch that won't cost you an hour between meetings.
• Dinner after a factory visit, often later in the evening on the way back to the hotel.
• Somewhere suitable for a small business group when you're hosting or meeting a supplier.