Lodging & Dining

The first time we sent a client to a Chinese seafood market, he came back convinced he had been scammed — the crab he picked from the tank weighed different…

Few things signal “you are really in China now” like the first time a staff member slides a sealed plastic cup across the counter and you realize the drink in…

Every China huangjiu guide has to start by clearing up the confusion, because nine out of ten travellers who ask us about Chinese alcohol are thinking of baijiu — the…

This China regional noodles guide exists because of a conversation we have with clients almost every month: someone books a fortnight of temples and karst scenery, then discovers halfway through…

Picking the best hotels in Luoyang is less about star ratings than about which of the city’s three centres you want to wake up in — the Tang-flavoured old town,…

Choosing among the best hotels in Changsha comes down to one question we ask every client before we book anything: how late do you want the street noise to go?…

Most visitors treat Tianjin as a 35-minute stopover between Beijing and somewhere else, and that habit is exactly why the best hotels in Tianjin are some of the sharpest value…

Harbin is a city that lives two lives. In summer it is a leafy Russian-architectural capital on the Songhua River; in deep winter it becomes the ice-and-snow capital of China,…

The single best hotel decision you can make in Guangxi is to book a Yangshuo riverside hotel rather than a room in the busy town center. Yangshuo sits on the…

The best way to sleep in Lijiang is not in a chain tower on the new-city ring road but inside the old town, in a Lijiang boutique inn built from…