Greek holiday resorts have usually only one type of food and restaurants on offer: Greek. But Corfu is cosmopolitan enough to offer a wider variety besides your usual Greek tavernas and kebab places (psistaries). You will not struggle a lot to find authentic Italian cuisine with Italian chefs and owners, Chinese and Indian.

There are several Chinese restaurants in Corfu, but my favourite one is a very small place with less than 10 tables that doubles as takeaway, called aptly Magic Dragon. Not quite easy to find, it is located at the northern entrance of Corfu Town (the area is called Solari), it is just off the main road that leads to the north (on the left as you leave the town) and on the side of a large electrical store called Kotsovolos.

I am a big fan of Chinese cuisine. The cooks of Magic Dragon are Chinese, and you have visual access to the cooking facilities, which are spotlessly clean. A friend of mine (Peter) who lived in Hong Kong for many years and travels extensively in UK, Holland, and Europe keeps telling me that this small eatery is the best Chinese restaurant outside Hong Kong. I am sure there is a gross element of exaggeration on this, but I certainly give top marks to this small, unpretentious, and very inexpensive place.

On the menu, do not miss the carry kok, which actually is a Vietnamese appetizer (rather spicy hot), the chicken teriyaki (which again is not Chinese, but incredibly tasty), or the classic black-bean or oyster-sauced beef, pork, or chicken. Give a try to the Tsingtao Chinese beer, which I find better than any other beer I have tried in Greece. Another big minus (apart from how difficult it is to find this place) is that they do not serve Coca-Cola (only Pepsi).