Lodging & Dining

This Suzhou garden hotels guide is the result of staying in nearly a dozen properties across the old canal city, and I will say it plainly: Suzhou, China offers some…

This Xishuangbanna food guide comes out of the better part of a month I have spent eating my way through Yunnan’s far south, and if there is one thing I…

Most visitors come to Dali, in Yunnan, for the mountains and the lake — Cangshan rising behind, Erhai spreading blue in front — and discover the food almost by accident….

There are prettier streets in China, but none that pack a river, a mountain range and a party into the same hundred metres quite like West Street in Yangshuo. This…

Shenzhen, China has the youngest skyline in the country and, quietly, some of the most thrilling high-altitude drinking in Asia. This Shenzhen rooftop bars guide comes from nights spent working…

Most travellers rush through Wuxi on the high-speed line between Shanghai and Nanjing, treating it as a stop for the Grand Canal and Taihu Lake, and that is a genuine…

Ask anyone who has spent a week eating their way across Hong Kong, China and they will tell you the same thing: the best meals are rarely the ones with…

Beijing hot pot is the capital’s communal winter ritual, and it is the meal I recommend to anyone who wants to understand the city’s palate without leaving the table. Unlike…

I watched a friend lose two nights of a tightly-planned Silk Road trip because the hotel she booked through an international platform turned out not to be licensed to take…

The first bed I ever paid for in China that wasn’t inside a building was a felt-walled ger on the grassland north of Xilinhot. I’d assumed “yurt stay” meant something…