The dining room at GBJ Bistro ITC Mall, with red woven ribbons twisting down from a leaf-patterned ceiling

GBJ Bistro · Guangxi Cuisine

The Taste of Guangxi.

Time-Honored Recipes, A Living Legacy.

Guangxi Intangible Cultural Heritage Cuisine

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GBJ Bistro · ITC Mall, Shanghai

02Our Story

The Taste of Home, at the City’s Table.

Guangxi · Shanghai · Since 2023

GBJ Bistro was born in Shanghai in 2023. Its founder grew up in Guangxi and set out to bring the taste of home to the urban table: the sour, spicy, sweet and fresh flavours of the region.

The name says where it comes from. 桂 stands for Guangxi and its osmanthus; 芭蕉 is the banana plant that grows across the region.

Time-honoured recipes from Guangxi’s intangible cultural heritage are cooked with ingredients air-freighted from Guangxi, from perilla and bamboo shoots to pickles and peppers.

A rattan screen woven in leaf shapes, handmade by intangible cultural heritage artisans — Handwoven rattan · GBJ Bistro

03Signature Dishes

Roasted Over Lychee Wood.Made to Share.

Our signature chicken starts with chilled three-yellow chicken in a secret Guangxi spice marinade, slow-roasted over lychee wood and served on banana leaf with house dips. Beside it are Lemon Duck, a Beer Yellow Croaker inspired by Yangshuo’s beer fish, and around 60,000 Smashed Lemon Teas poured every year.

Lychee wood-roasted chicken on banana leaf with three house dips, chillies and garlic

Lemon duck in a white clay pot with fresh limes and chillies

Beer being poured over yellow croaker in a glass bowl of red broth

Smashed guava lemon tea in a stemmed glass beside a halved guava and lime

Handmade milk rice mochi with mango in a white bowl on a wooden tray

Taro sweet soup with taro ice cream, red beans and tapioca pearls

Brown sugar ching bu liang with fruit, beans and jelly in a white bowl

Osmanthus milk tea in a stemmed glass, topped with milk foam and dried osmanthus

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04Inside GBJ Bistro

A Garden at Hongqiao Tiandi.

05Recognition

Loved in Shanghai.

GBJ Bistro has also ranked No.1 on Dianping’s citywide popularity chart for Shanghai. It was named to Shanghai Where to Eat TOP 100 in 2023, received GOGO Shanghai’s Annual Innovative Guangxi Restaurant Brand award in 2024 and won an APDC Interior Design Award in 2025.

No.1 Shanghai specialty cuisine on Dianping.

GBJ Bistro

06Experience

Sour. Spicy.Sweet. Fresh.

Rattan screens handwoven by intangible cultural heritage artisans, ribbons inspired by Binyang’s Dragon Parade Festival, walls of pickle jars and a bar at the heart of the room. Guangxi sugar water is made fresh every day with Lipu taro.