Lodging & Dining

Most first-timers in Beijing order Peking duck the way they’d order a rotisserie chicken — carved at the pass, dropped on the table, eaten with a fork. That misses the…

Most visitors to Guangzhou treat dim sum as a snack. Locals treat it as a weekend ritual called yum cha — literally “drink tea” — where families camp in a…

Sleeping under a sky full of stars on the Mongolian steppe or in a designer tent at the edge of the Gobi has become one of the country’s fastest-growing travel…

A China temple stay offers something few hotels can: a night inside a working Buddhist monastery, woken by a 4 am bell and lulled by evening chanting. For spiritual travelers…

For travelers who want the finest rooms in Asia, Shanghai luxury hotels deliver a rare combination: century-old grand hotels on the Bund, cloud-level suites above Pudong’s futuristic skyline, and discreet…

Choosing Beijing courtyard hotels lets you trade a glass tower for a walled siheyuan where generations of locals once lived. A siheyuan is the traditional courtyard residence of northern China:…

This Suzhou food guide invites you to the kitchen of Jiangnan, the watery south where China’s scholar-gardens were built and the food is as refined and gentle as the scenery….

This Xi’an street food guide walks you through the noisy, delicious heart of Shaanxi cuisine, where the former capital of thirteen dynasties still eats like a frontier garrison town: big…

Our Yunnan wild mushroom hotpot guide is for travelers who want to taste one of China’s great seasonal feasts: the brief summer window when the forests of Yunnan flush with…

This Ningbo food guide takes you to the coastal kitchens of one of Zhejiang’s oldest port cities, where the sea meets the rice paddies and the cooking is salty, fresh,…