Lodging & Dining

Xi’an was the eastern terminus of the Silk Road and the capital of more Chinese dynasties than any other city, and its food carries that history in every bowl. This…

Chongqing sits where the Yangtze and Jialing rivers collide, a vertical, fog-wrapped megacity built on hills and bridges. Its food matches the terrain: loud, oily, peppery and unapologetic. The signature…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

After a brutal work stretch in 2023, I booked myself a four-day reset outside Tengchong, soaking in volcanic hot springs and doing absolutely nothing else. That trip became my template…

On my last trip through Shanghai and Chengdu, I realized the China craft cocktails scene had quietly grown into something world-class. I’m not talking about the sugary “Long Island” pitchers…