Cheap Eats Nanjing 21 – Cheese Time

by Mike Pole

Ah, the eternal quest for a kiwi in China to find …. cheese. I foraged far and wide, and finally, one evening, at my foraging limits, a place advertising itself with the words ‘CHEESE’! The fine print said it was ‘Cheese Time’ and a ‘Cheese Pub’. That’ll do me….

As a starter I got a nice Mushroom soup. I had a Spaghetti with Beef and Black Pepper Sauce. I’m not much into meat these days, but I thought I’d try something other than the obvious pizza. It satisfied the cheese craving.

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It was all-good, although Fools Garden ‘Lemon Tree’ (“And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree”) on endless loop just about drove me mad. It is a bar, so relatively up-market and a bit more than I would normally call ‘cheap eats’.

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Cheese Time is on the corner of Huaqiao and Hongwu North.

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6 comments

Katie July 14, 2017 - 3:53 pm

Is it possible to buy cheese in Nanjing. (From a kiwi who just moved there yesterday…)

mikepole July 14, 2017 - 7:42 pm

Hi Katie! Good question, I know just how you feel…. The issue took up quite a bit of my time. All I ever managed to find were wedges of soft cheese at the local community supermarket. I kept reading that Carrefour was the place, and made several trips there without spotting any. Good luck , and please report back if you have any success! Cheers, Mike

Katie July 15, 2017 - 10:49 am

I’ll be sure to let you know. A year without cheese seems daunting.

mikepole July 15, 2017 - 10:57 am

Good luck! There’s plenty of nice food around, but the lack of cheese was tough….

Katie July 18, 2017 - 2:12 pm

Hey hey. I have found some cheese! And not just cheese, but a whole lot of great international food (like Thai curry pastes etc) in a mall shop on shanghai st called ‘Gmart.’ The prices tend to match Nz prices for similar products.

Jeana Cisneros August 24, 2024 - 10:47 pm

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