going with girl? bring them go 十三行, for a shock of your life but beware that the gals might not come out until they close shop. but they close early anyway, their business start from 6am to 12pm like that lolx
anyway, guangzhou street usually got loads of roadside stalls, while restaurants, all kinds of chinese foods la, Szechuan, hunan, Xinjiang (china muslim) food, etc etc, but of course most is canto food la.
hotel is cheap. the hotel i stayed is east asia hotel, stayed at their refurbish room, i think 1 night only RM150 which is very good. Their old room sux to the max though

there's this kind of transport in guangzhou, a modified motorcycle where the rear can sit 2 people. IMO more dangerous than those tuk tuk in thailand, but i still sit, haha
oh yea....most taxis there are meter taxi, and are cheap compare to malaysia
Mind to ask for your east asia hotel which floor is it refurbish? because i check from their website some rooms offer they put 6-7 floor worry the floor are old rooms, check thrue agoda for stay at haizhu square(guess should be shopping area) some of the customer comments rooms are old and dirty.. very worry budget around rm100/120 can go up to rm150 included taxes.. any boutique hotel? or new/cleaner hotel? maybe like tune hotels? @@~