The Best Places to Eat Outdoors in Beijing
For a few fleeting weeks each year in Beijing the temperature is just right for all fresco wining and dining. The sun is shining, but not sweltering, the icy winds have died down and the mosquitoes...
View ArticleMust Try Xinjiang Food
We may be used to our Northern food staples here in Beijing, but Xinjiang reveals a whole different side to cuisine in China, suiting an entirely different, more savory, palate. Also, many of the foods...
View Article10 REALLY BAD CHINESE SOUVENIRS
It’s a rite of passage for travelers in China to check out the top tourist sites. You know, the usual: The Great Wall, the Summer Palace, the Lama Temple, the list goes on. Luckily, at each site you...
View Article5 Kind of Food to Avoid in China
Food safety in China has been a serious issue for a number of years now, but despite a wealth of study and research, a number of people remain unaware of the various issues related to food quality....
View ArticleTOP 10 SUMMER GETAWAYS IN CHINA
In this summer heat, where cities across China are drenched in sweat, here are five of the Ten Summer Getaways in China ranked by China City Travel, somewhere to get away from the July sun. No. 1...
View Article10 MOST FAMOUS TEMPLES
Throughout China’s thousands of years of history, different religions have thrived in different dynasties. As a type of token left behind by religions during their times of prosperity, temples remain...
View ArticleCHINA’S MOST POPULAR BEERS
Although beer brewing in China dates back to as early as 7000 BC, it’s only become really popular in the last few decades. Since then, like everything else in the Middle Kingdom, it’s grown at an...
View ArticleJianbing: China’s Favorite Street Food
You can’t get far in Beijing without catching a whiff of the heavenly fragrance of pan-fried dough and egg that defines jianbing (煎饼), one the city’s most popular snacks. Read below to find out what it...
View ArticleTHE MUSEUM OF ROAST DUCK
Tourists come to Beijing in droves to admire the sites, the thousands of years of history, the mesmerizing cultural relics, and the incredible architecture. Now a piece of the city’s illustrious...
View ArticleTHE ART OF BARGAINING
I was never very good at bargaining. Every time girlfriends asked what I paid for a new jacket, which always happens here, I’d lie, offering up a third of what I actually paid. They’d still tell me,...
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