Guangzhou Food Guide: Cantonese Classics Beyond Dim Sum
Ask most travelers what Cantonese food means and they will say “dim sum.” Guangzhou, the provincial capital and the birthplace of Cantonese cooking, will politely disagree. Dim sum is the…
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Shantou Food Guide: Chaoshan Cuisine, Beef Hotpot and Teochew Classics
If Guangzhou is the loud, banquet-style capital of Cantonese eating, Shantou is its quieter, more obsessive cousin. This port city in eastern Guangdong is the heart of the Chaoshan region,…
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Shenzhen Food Guide: Dim Sum, Dai Pai Dong and a Migrant City’s Cravings
Shenzhen was a string of fishing villages in 1979 and is now a megacity of roughly 17 million people. That backstory matters for anyone writing a Shenzhen food guide, because…
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Zhuhai Food Guide: Coastal Cantonese Flavors and Macau Border Eats
People treat Zhuhai as the quiet gateway to Macau, China, and then underestimate the food. I have based clients here for the border access and watched them come back from…
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Wenzhou Food Guide: Seafood, Snacks and the Taste of Zhejiang’s Coastal South
Most travelers blow through Wenzhou on the train and never taste it, which is a mistake I keep trying to fix. This Wenzhou food guide comes from stops where I…
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Guilin Food Guide: Rice Noodles, Beer Fish and Guangxi Border Flavors
I have sent dozens of travelers to Guilin, and almost none of them arrived hungry for the right thing. They expect the postcard karst and the Li River, then act…
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Jiuxiang Caves: Underground Karst Labyrinth near Kunming
On a trip with a family from Chengdu, we reached the bottom of the Jiuxiang elevator and stepped into a cavern so wide I could not see the far wall…
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Staying Healthy on the Road in China: Travel Insurance, Clinics and Altitude Prep
Buy insurance before you leave home This is the one non-negotiable. Get a policy that explicitly covers medical evacuation, not just clinic bills; helicopter retrieval from a remote plateau is…
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Getu River: Karst Caves and Climbing Valley in Guizhou
The first time I took a client down to the Getu River in Guizhou, we stood on a handrail-less wooden platform and watched a column of sunlight drop straight through…
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Malinghe Canyon: Verdant Gorge and Waterfall Cluster in Guizhou
Malinghe Canyon (马岭河峡谷) is the green secret of southwest China’s karst country — a narrow, vertical-walled gorge near Xingyi where dozens of waterfalls sheet down mossy cliffs and a suspended…
