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…
The best meal I ate in China last year cost RMB 23 and came from a plastic stool on a Xi’an side street at 10 p.m. Street food is where…
I first went to Xichang almost by accident — a Chengdu client wanted to escape the August heat and a local friend said, “Go to the lake.” I took the…
Most travelers blow through Zhejiang on the Hangzhou–Shanghai axis and never think about Wenzhou. I made that mistake for years. Then a client whose family comes from the Wenzhou diaspora…
When a client with celiac disease asked me to plan a two-week China trip last spring, my first instinct was to panic. China runs on wheat in the north and…
On my first trip to Hainan back in March, I made the classic mistake every first-time visitor makes: I bought a single overpriced mango from a beachside stall near Sanya…
The hardest part of traveling in China with children isn’t the language or the trains — it’s the moment at 4 pm when everyone is tired, the next sight is…
When clients ask me for the best eco lodges in China, they usually expect a single famous brand, and I have to explain that “eco” here means very different things…
Taiyuan is the gateway most travelers sleep in without meaning to — they fly or train in to see the real prize, which is Shanxi’s absurd density of old towns,…
Nanchang doesn’t always make the front page of China travel lists, but we’ve sent plenty of travelers through Jiangxi’s capital and almost all of them underestimate it. It’s a real…