Our Luoyang food guide begins with the city’s strangest and most beloved tradition — the Water Banquet — but Luoyang rewards travelers who also chase its noodles, its night-market skewers,…
Our Zunyi food guide leans into the kind of food foreign visitors rarely expect from China: sour, smoky, and layered with chili that builds rather than burns. On our last…
Our Jinhua food guide starts with the obvious icon — Jinhua ham — but the city in central Zhejiang rewards travelers who look past the cured leg. On our last…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sitting on the southern tip of Liaoning’s Liaodong Peninsula, Dalian is the kind of Chinese port city where the day’s catch still dictates the menu. I’ve spent a few unhurried…