The Sichuan–Tibet Highway (G318): What the World’s Most Scenic Drive Demands
There’s a stretch of the G318 where the road climbs out of a river gorge and, without warning, the whole eastern face of Mount Gongga fills the windshield — a…
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Shaoxing Food Guide: Yellow Wine, Stinky Tofu and Water-Town Snacks
Shaoxing is the city that ferments. An hour south of Hangzhou, it is the home of Chinese yellow wine (黄酒, huangjiu), the mellow, amber drink that has seasoned this region’s…
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Yangzhou Food Guide: Huaiyang Classics and the Art of Early Breakfast
Yangzhou is the city that taught China how to eat breakfast as a ceremony. On our last visit we arrived at the Fuchun Teahouse (富春茶社) at 7 a.m. and joined…
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Nantong Food Guide: Jiangsu River-Mouth Flavors and Seafood
Nantong sits where the Yangtze River finally lets go of the land and spills into the Yellow Sea, a meeting point that gives the city a kitchen found almost nowhere…
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Taiyuan Food Guide: Shanxi Noodles, Vinegar and Night Market Eats
Taiyuan sits in a bowl of loess hills at the heart of Shanxi, a province that cooks with wheat, vinegar and patience. On our last visit, a driver took us…
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Weihai Food Guide: Coastal Shandong Seafood and Korean Influence
Perched on the far eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, Weihai is the kind of Chinese seaside city where the morning catch lands before most travelers have finished breakfast. On…
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Jinan Food Guide: Lu Cuisine, Baobing and Spring City Eats
Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong, calls itself the Spring City (泉城) because the Baotu Spring and dozens of smaller springs bubble up through the old town center. That water…
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Nanji Island: Blue Bay Marine Reserve of Wenzhou
Nanji Island lies off Pingyang County in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, a granite dome of grassland and clear water that China protected as a marine nature reserve in 1990 and that UNESCO…
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Shengsi Islands: East China Sea Archipelago of Zhejiang
The Shengsi Islands sit at the mouth of the Yangtze, the easternmost county of Zhejiang and a scatter of more than four hundred islets governed from Zhoushan. Most travelers land…
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Tangyue Archways: Huizhou Memorial Gate Group, Anhui
Six kilometers from the county seat of Shexian, in Huangshan City, the Tangyue Archway Group stands as the finest surviving row of imperial memorial gates in the old Huizhou heartland…
