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Sanya sits at the southern tip of Hainan and is the closest thing mainland China has to a proper tropical beach escape. If you are planning a trip and typing…

Xi’an is where the Silk Road began and where the Terracotta Army sleeps underground. It is also one of the easiest Chinese cities to enjoy on foot, because the old…

Most wine travellers think of Bordeaux or Napa. Few think of the Gobi Desert edge in northern China. Yet Ningxia, a slender region along the Yellow River, has quietly become…

Ten years ago, “Chinese beer” meant one pale lager poured ice-cold from a green bottle. That picture is outdated. Today a China craft beer guide has to cover a fast-growing…

Nanjing sits on the Yangtze about three hours west of Shanghai, and it eats duck the way some cities eat beef. The locals joke that a Nanjing table sees a…

If you ask most travellers to name China’s great regional kitchens, you will hear about Sichuan, Guangdong and maybe Hunan. Jiangxi, the province tucked between them, almost never comes up….

If Shanghai is the city of slow braises, Shanxi is the province of the noodle. Tucked into the loess hills of north China, Shanxi grew up on wheat rather than…

Walking into a Shanghai neighborhood eatery for the first time can feel like stepping into someone’s grandmother’s kitchen. The steam, the clatter of enamel spoons, and the deep mahogany shine…