Quanzhou Food Travel Guide: Noodle Paste and Oyster Omelettes
Quanzhou was the great port of the Maritime Silk Road, and its old town still hums with the food of a thousand years of trade — Fujianese, Southeast Asian, and…
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Kunming Food Travel Guide: Crossing-the-Bridge Noodles and Flower Cakes
Kunming is the gateway to Yunnan, and its food is the most botanically playful in China — they eat flowers, foraged mushrooms, and a dizzying range of rice noodles. I’ve…
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Qinghai Cuisine Travel Guide: Yak Yoghurt and Hand-Pulled Lamb
I caught my first breath of Xining at 2,275 metres and immediately understood the food: at this altitude, you eat for warmth and fuel. Qinghai sits on the Tibetan plateau’s…
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Hainan Cuisine Travel Guide: Wenchang Chicken and Coconut Kitchens
I flew into Haikou expecting beach food and found something gentler: an island kitchen built on coconut, free-range chicken, and the cleanest seafood I’ve eaten in southern China. Hainan’s food…
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Henan Cuisine Travel Guide: Water Banquet and Braised Noodles
I arrived in Luoyang on a grey March afternoon with one mission: eat my way through the cradle of Chinese civilization. Henan sits at the geographic heart of China, and…
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Tai O Travel Guide: Stilt Houses and Pink Dolphins in Hong Kong, China
Most people who fly into Hong Kong, China never make it to Tai O, and that is their loss. I came here on my third trip to the city, took…
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Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Travel Guide: Glass Bridge and Zip Lines
The first time I walked the Zhangjiajie glass bridge I did what everyone does: I stopped dead centre, looked down through 300 metres of nothing, and laughed out loud. The…
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Zhangbei Grassland Route Travel Guide: Hebei’s Skyline Road Drive
I had driven a lot of China’s highways before I found the Zhangbei grassland route, and nothing prepared me for a road that simply ends on top of a mountain…
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Dagu Glacier Travel Guide: Cable Cars to 4,860 Metres in Aba
The cable car at Dagu Glacier holds a quiet record I like to tell people about: at 4,860 metres, it is one of the highest tourist cable-car stations on the…
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Enshi Grand Canyon Travel Guide: Karst Pillars and Cliff Walkways
I still remember the moment I stepped off the shuttle at the Qixingzhai entrance of the Enshi Grand Canyon and looked up: a wall of pale limestone, striated like a…
