This is one of the swankiest tables in town, with an original branch on Quanzhou Lu and an even more polished new branch on Fujian Lu.

Picky About Food is highly selective in its ingredient sourcing, with reliable local and international seafood swimming in well-tended tanks and an elevated level of service that seems almost stuffy by Kulangsu standards.

Beneath precisely positioned Edison bulbs, you’ll dine at sleek wooden tables and wooden chopsticks and spoons.

A pleasant way to start is gan bei zhu sun tang （干杯玉笋汤）, a gentle clear soup of minuscule dried scallops, veiled lady mushroom (a translucent white and irresistibly spongy bamboo fungus whose suggestive species name is Phallus indusiatus), and tofu.

One of the house specialities is dubbed “Boston lobster” (bo si tun long xia，波士顿龙虾), which comes steamed with glass noodles, garlic, oil, and spring onions. This prep is more in the Kulangsu street-food style than anything you might find in Massachusetts, but it’s fresh, flavorful, and juicy.

If you once enjoyed the Chinese-American dish known as “egg foo young” back when it was a standard at U.S. Chinese restaurants in the 1980s, as I did, then tiao shi dou fu （ 天使豆腐）, fried egg custard cubes in a light brown sauce, will take you back. On the other hand, the taste, texture, and name of this dish might also fool you into thinking you’re eating tofu. It’s adorned with tomatoes and thinly julienned red peppers.

Other local specialties include fen shen yu mi bang（分针玉米棒）: long, full-bellied “corn clams” steamed with garlic glass noodles.

Address:15 Fujian Road, Gulangyu Island, Siming District, Xiamen City, China

时尚奢华的餐厅“挑食”，在对其食物的选材非常讲究，而且他们高级的服务显然在鼓浪屿上属于鹤立鸡群的。整洁的木制餐桌、木制餐筷和木制勺子，柔美有情调的室内灯光，加上各种极品佳肴，“挑食”给人一种不一般的饮食体验。

地址：厦门市思明区鼓浪屿福建路15号