Food cities in China
Cities where the meal is the reason to go — breakfast dim sum, hotpot nights, street snacks, and what is worth buying to take home.
17 cities
Shanghai
The China haircut city — Bund nights and French Concession walks.
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Chengdu
Pandas, numbing-spicy hotpot, and China’s slowest big city.
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Xi'an
Hanfu photoshoots on the old-city streets, then the Terracotta Army.
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Guangzhou
Dim sum mornings — the meal worth planning a day around.
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Chongqing
Cyberpunk nights at Hongyadong, and hotpot hotter than Chengdu.
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Qingdao
Beer, the beach, and German-era streets by the water.
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Tianjin
Concession streets, a jianbing breakfast, and a Haihe night.
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Urumqi
The Grand Bazaar, lamb skewers, and the Silk Road gate.
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Kaifeng
Song-dynasty night-market streets and Qingming Scroll Park.
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Kunming
Kunming is China's perpetual-spring highland capital: a lake city where winter Siberian black-headed gulls, a
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Wuhan
Wuhan is China's great River City: where the Yangtze meets the Han and splits three towns (Wuchang, Hankou, Ha
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Changsha
Changsha is a 'mountain-isle-city' strung along the Xiang River: a 2,100-year-old Han kingdom re-discovered at
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Fuzhou
Fuzhou is the quiet Fujian capital most China itineraries skip: a walled Ming-Qing lane grid (Sanfang Qixiang)
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Shenyang
Shenyang is where the Qing dynasty was born and the 20th century began: an early-Qing Manchu palace second onl
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Dalian
Dalian is the northeast's breezy coastal port: a century of Russian and Japanese leased-territory urban planni
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Kashgar
Kashgar is the living western terminus of the old Silk Road: an inhabited 5A adobe old town at the foot of the
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Yanji
Yanji is the Korean-Chinese (Chaoxianzu) homeland in China: a border city where every street sign reads in Chi
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