Lodging & Dining

At 6:40 on a Tuesday morning in Lanzhou, the queue outside the noodle shop already bends around the corner. Inside, a man in a white skullcap slaps a rope of…

Few street foods divide opinion as sharply as Chinese stinky tofu. To the uninitiated, the aroma hits you three stalls before you see the source. To regulars lining up at…

At 10:40 on a Tuesday night in Chengdu, the best bowl of noodles I ate all week cost eleven yuan and took ninety seconds to make. The stall was a…

Walk into almost any drink shop south of the Yangtze and you will find a wall of glass jars, each packed with hand-squeezed lemon and a different base tea. Chinese…

If you spend more than a day in Nanjing, you will hear about the duck before you taste it. This is a city that brags about its waterfowl the way…

If you have ever wandered the night markets of northwestern China, you have probably caught the scent first: slow-braised pork, cumin, and toasted flatbread drifting down a lantern-lit alley. That…

The Wrapper Is the Whole Argument A wonton wrapper is the thinnest thing in a Chinese kitchen. Rolled down to about half a millimetre, good ones turn nearly translucent —…

Haikou is the city most travelers breeze through on their way to Sanya, and that is a real shame. Hainan’s capital moves at a slower, saltier rhythm than the resort…

My first lesson in jiaozi came from a grandmother in Shenyang, not a cookbook She put a rolling pin in my hand, dumped a mound of soft dough in front…

Yantai rarely tops the list of China’s most famous beach destinations, and that is precisely its charm. Tucked into the northern coast of Shandong Peninsula, this low-key port city pairs…