Lodging & Dining

The first time I stood in the Muslim Quarter of Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, the air was thick with the slap of a rolling pin against dough — biang, biang, biang….

I came to Xinjiang, China expecting grilled meat and left understanding a whole cuisine. The kebabs are real, but they are the loudest part of a table that also holds…

The dish that made me miss a train out of Haikou was coconut chicken hotpot. I had planned a quick lunch; two hours later I was still dipping Wenchang chicken…

My first heritage hotel in China was a converted Qing merchant’s courtyard in Pingyao, and I came away with two completely new ideas about what an old building could be….

Zhangye, Gansu, China is the Silk Road city most travelers reach for one reason — the Zhangye Danxia, the layered “rainbow mountains” that glow at sunrise — and then stay…

Shangri-La, Yunnan, China — the town formerly called Zhongdian, renamed in 2001 to match the legend — sits at about 3,200 meters above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau edge…

Gansu is the thin, windswept province that stitches China to the Silk Road, and its food tells that story better than any museum. We have sent travelers here who expected…

Xiamen sits off China’s southeast coast, and its kitchen is one of the most approachable gateways into Fujian (Min) cuisine for foreign visitors. We have sent travelers here who came…

Hong Kong, China is one of the rare cities on earth where you can eat superbly at almost any hour and at almost any budget, from a HK$15 egg waffle…

The first headache I had on the Qinghai–Gansu loop wasn’t from the altitude. It was from a hot shower that turned lukewarm at 2,200 metres, a room that sat at…