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Tucked along China’s southern border with Vietnam, Chongzuo is Guangxi’s best-kept secret—a city where misty karst peaks, sugarcane fields stretching to the horizon, and a fusion of Zhuang and Vietnamese cuisines create a sensory feast. Let’s dive into why Chongzuo deserves a spot on your China travel radar. While Guangxi’s Guilin and Liuzhou hog the […]
In the heart of Beijing, where ancient Hutongs whisper tales of dynasties past, a culinary masterpiece has been perfected over 160 years—not in the quietude of a scholar’s study, but in the roaring flames of a hanging oven. Quanjude (全聚德) Peking Duck, a dish synonymous with imperial grandeur and modern ingenuity. Since its founding in […]
Unlike Western culinary classifications by courses or ingredients, Chinese cuisine categorizes itself through philosophical flavor balance and geographical personality. The eight recognized styles – Shandong (鲁菜), Sichuan (川菜), Cantonese (粤菜), Jiangsu (苏菜), Zhejiang (浙菜), Fujian (闽菜), Hunan (湘菜), and Anhui (徽菜) – each developed unique characteristics shaped by local topography, historical trade routes, and imperial […]
Every year, during the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节), you’ll see families across China hanging bundles of mugwort (艾草) on their doors, wearing fragrant sachets close to their bodies, and tying colorful threads on children’s wrists. In places like Henan and Zhejiang, pots are filled with garlic and eggs. These time-honored traditions, passed down for thousands […]
“Come over next Saturday night,” Chef Yang Boying said. “I’ll make an old school dish—cordyceps duck. You won’t find it in restaurants these days.” I arrived right on time. Yang lifted the lid off a steaming pot, releasing the scent of something rich and ancient. Inside was a rustic farm duck, slow-steamed for four hours […]
The Dragon Boat Festival, known in Chinese as Duanwu Jie (端午节), falls on June 19 in 2026 — a Friday that sets the stage for a long weekend of celebrations across China and Chinese communities worldwide. The festival, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, boasts a history spanning more than two […]
Chinese dining in 2026 is in the middle of a quiet but consequential shift. The era of the “super-regional cuisine” — Sichuan and Hunan as national defaults, Cantonese dim sum as the universal Chinese restaurant touchstone — is giving way to a more granular approach. Regional dishes are being refined into smaller, more focused offerings, […]
The 2026 Yangzhou Morning Tea Culture Week opened on June 17 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, and runs through June 23. Now in its eighth year, the festival has grown from a local morning-tea promotion into a national platform for Chinese food culture, with the 2026 edition gathering all seven of China’s UNESCO Creative Cities of […]
The 2026 “Tea for Harmony” (茶和天下) cultural exchange series has been rolling out across multiple cities worldwide. On May 21, International Tea Day, the Chinese Embassy in Indonesia held a “Tea for Harmony: Beauty Shared” cultural event in Jakarta; from June 19 to 20, a program themed “Among Grass and Trees: Green Mountains, Clear Waters, […]
On the evening of August 8, 2026, the “Wind Rising Over the Hexi Corridor, Feasting the World” (风起河西宴天下) Shandan 2026 cultural-tourism promotion week and the fourth Chaobola Food Carnival opened at Zhixing Square in Shandan County, Zhangye, Gansu Province. Built around intangible heritage food and the Silk Road as its cultural core, the event runs […]
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