Lodging & Dining

Ask a Beijing local what they eat when they want to feel at home, and a large share will say Beijing zhajiangmian, noodles with soybean paste. This is the capital’s…

The dish that defines a Wuhan morning is not a soup and not a stir-fry, it is a dry, sesame-slicked bowl of Wuhan hot dry noodles, known locally as reganmian….

If you want to understand Chongqing before you understand anything else about it, start with a bowl of Chongqing xiaomian. This is the city’s true breakfast, the thing that gets…

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is Fujian’s most famous banquet dish, a clay-pot soup that simmers abalone, sea cucumber, fish maw, and a dozen other luxuries for hours until the…

Longjing tea village Hangzhou is where China’s most famous green tea is grown, picked, and pan-fired by hand in the hills just west of West Lake, and in our experience…

Sanya seafood is the payoff at the end of a Hainan beach trip, and in our experience the warm South China Sea puts a tropical twist on the standard Chinese…

Xiamen seafood is the reason many travelers extend their Fujian trip by an extra day, and in our experience the city’s coastal position gives it a catch you simply do…

Qingdao sprawls along the Yellow Sea coast of Shandong, a city where German era red roofs meet fishing piers and the smell of fresh beer hangs in the air. The…

Xiamen is a subtropical island city off the Fujian coast, and the first thing to understand about the best hotels in Xiamen is that the name covers two very different…

Wuhan sits where the Yangtze meets the Han River, three towns welded into one sprawling city that also happens to be one of China’s biggest rail hubs. Picking the best…