Lodging & Dining

Xi’an sits at the eastern end of the Silk Road, and its food shows it — wheat noodles, flatbreads, and above all dumplings (饺子, jiaozi). The local style isn’t the…

If there’s one thing Chengdu does better than eat chili, it’s sit still with a cup of tea. The teahouse (茶馆, chaguan) is the city’s living room — a place…

Beijing is not obviously a vegetarian city — the famous dishes are Peking duck, lamb hotpot, and noodle bowls with pork. But the capital has a serious meat-free tradition rooted…

Shanghai’s skyline is the city’s biggest draw, and the best way to take it in without fighting the crowds on the Bund promenade is from a rooftop bar. We’ve sent…

Lijiang’s Old Town (Dayan) is one of those places where the hotel is the trip. We have booked clients into everything from a 30-room international resort with Jade Dragon Snow…

Staying within walking distance of the Forbidden City changes a Beijing trip from a commute into a rhythm. We have booked hundreds of clients into the blocks just east and…

West Lake (Xihu) is the reason most travelers slow down in Hangzhou, and where you sleep decides whether you watch the morning mist from your balcony or spend 40 minutes…

The most memorable bed in China is often not in a high-rise but behind a grey-brick wall, in a courtyard house where the rooms wrap a quiet square of stone…

Vegetarian food in China is not a dietary afterthought — it is an old, refined tradition tied to Buddhism and the monastic kitchens that fed monks for fifteen hundred years….

Our China hot spring resorts guide exists because the country is one of the most geothermally gifted on earth, and most foreign visitors never use it. From volcanic Yunnan to…