Right across the road from the Hongshan Hotel is the best of the region's John's Information Café branches, pleasantly located in a small park - you can sit outside under the trellises and almost forget that you are in the middle of a booming city. Pancakes, apple pie, coffee, toast and omelettes are all available, as well as half-decent Chinese food. On the same side of the street as John's, four doors down towards the Holiday Inn, is a great little Chinese restaurant, cheap, clean and friendly, though with no English menu. For air-conditioned luxury, the Holiday Inn itself does buffet breakfasts and lunches where you can eat as much as you like for ¥95 and ¥85 repectively. The set dinner menu is ¥48. If you're staying around the station, head for the Uigur restaurant just west of the Xinjiang Hotel. It's loud and boisterous, but you can't fault the cheap food. More Uigur fare is on sale at streetside market areas. One central place is on Renmin Lu, just to the west of Xinhua Lu. Another, slightly more wholesome, is the covered market just north of the post office, or try the Erdaoqiao market (take bus #101 heading south down Xinhua Bei Lu). There's another outside the Hongshan Department Store, within walking distance of the Hongshan Hotel. For upmarket Chinese food, try one of the cluster of restaurants on Minzhu Lu, close to the Laiyuan Hotel.