Taste of place
El sabor de cada lugar
Detrás de cada plato hay la historia y las costumbres de una ciudad: por qué el sushi era la comida rápida de Edo, en qué casa antigua empezó el pato laqueado de Pekín, si la historia de la pizza Margarita es verdad o leyenda. 47 platos emblemáticos con su origen, cómo comerlos y las normas locales, y además «qué comer cerca» de 249 lugares y fiestas: imprescindibles, dónde comer, normas en la mesa y precio orientativo.
Cantonese dim sum
'One pot, two pieces': a pot of tea with two dim sum — Guangzhou mornings begin in the teahouse.
Butter tea
A highland drink churned from tea, butter and salt — the first cup a Tibetan home offers a guest.
Nanjing salted duck
'Jinling's duck dishes are the best in the land': dry-cured, brined and simmered, with pale skin and tender meat.
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Dongpo pork
Red-braised pork belly named after Su Dongpo, the signature dish of Hangzhou cuisine.
Yangrou paomo
Tear the bread into fingernail-sized pieces yourself, then hand it to the cook to simmer in lamb soup.
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Peking duck
From a Yuan court recipe to the old shops of Qianmen: six hundred years of duck rolled in pancakes.
Qué comer cerca de los lugares de interés31 lugares
- The Li River, GuilinImprescindible: Guilin rice noodles, Beer fish, Stuffed river snails
- JiuzhaigouImprescindible: Yak hotpot / yak soup pot, Tibetan butter tea / barley cakes, Hand-pulled lamb
- Zhangjiajie National Forest ParkImprescindible: Sanxiaguo (three-ingredient pot), Chicken stewed with rock-ear fungus, Tujia braised pork
- Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)Imprescindible: Stinky mandarin fish (chou guiyu), Maodoufu (hairy tofu), Huangshan shaobing (sesame flatbread)
- Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, GuangzhouImprescindible: Dim sum, Siu mai, Char siu bao
- Hongya Cave, ChongqingImprescindible: Chongqing hotpot, Chongqing xiaomian (spicy noodles), Hot-and-sour sweet-potato noodles
- Kuanzhai Alley, ChengduImprescindible: Hotpot, Chuan chuan xiang (skewer hotpot), Zhong dumplings / Long wontons
- The Bund, ShanghaiImprescindible: Shengjian mantou (pan-fried buns), Xiaolongbao, Pork chop with rice cake
- Fujian Tulou: Tianluokeng clusterImprescindible: Hakka salt-baked chicken, Braised pork with preserved mustard greens, Tulou dried bamboo shoots / bitter greens
- Ganden Sumtseling MonasteryImprescindible: Yak hotpot, Butter tea, Highland-barley wine / barley cakes
- Kashgar Old CityImprescindible: Baked buns (samsa), Gangzi rou (lamb stewed in enamel mugs), Tandoor-roasted lamb (nangkeng rou)
- Dali Old TownImprescindible: Rushan (fried milk fan), Ersi / erkuai (rice noodles / rice cakes), Hot-and-sour fish
- Lijiang Old TownImprescindible: Cured-rib hotpot, Chickpea jelly (jidou liangfen), Lijiang baba (flatbread)
- Potala PalaceImprescindible: Butter tea, Sweet tea, Tibetan noodles
- Mogao Caves, DunhuangImprescindible: Donkey meat with yellow noodles, Huyang menbing (lamb braised with flatbread), Apricot-peel drink (xingpi shui)
- Confucius Temple and the Qinhuai River, NanjingImprescindible: Duck blood and vermicelli soup, Salted duck, The eight Qinhuai snacks
- HongcunImprescindible: Maodoufu (hairy tofu), Stinky mandarin fish (chou guiyu), Huangshan shaobing (sesame flatbread)
- Wuzhen XizhaImprescindible: Red-braised lamb, Whitebait fish, Dingsheng cake
- West Lake, HangzhouImprescindible: West Lake fish in vinegar sauce, Longjing tea shrimp, Dongpo pork
- Humble Administrator's Garden, SuzhouImprescindible: Squirrel-shaped mandarin fish, Biluochun shrimp, Suzhou-style noodle soup
- Chengde Mountain ResortImprescindible: Gaidao rou (Chengde smoked pork), Fried buckwheat jelly (jian wantuo), Almond milk (xingren lu)
- Summer PalaceImprescindible: Roast duck, Imperial pea cake / kidney-bean rolls, Zhajiang noodles
- Temple of HeavenImprescindible: Luzhu huoshao (braised offal with bread), Chaogan (stewed liver), Mending meat pies
- The Palace Museum (Forbidden City)Imprescindible: Peking duck, Zhajiang noodles, Lüdagun (rolling donkey: sticky-rice rolls in soybean flour)
- Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden, KaifengImprescindible: Soup dumplings (guantang bao), Sweet-and-sour carp with fried noodles, Tongzi chicken
- Pingyao Ancient CityImprescindible: Pingyao beef, Wantuo (buckwheat jelly), Youmian kaolaolao (oat-flour rolls)
- Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, NanjingImprescindible: Salted duck, Duck blood and vermicelli soup, Pidu noodles (puffed pork-skin noodles)
- Longmen GrottoesImprescindible: Luoyang water banquet, Beef or lamb soup, Jiangmian tiao (fermented mung-bean noodles)
- Xi'an City WallImprescindible: Yangrou paomo, Hulatang with beef meatballs, Youcha with mahua (savoury flour tea with fried dough twists)
- Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Da Ci'en TempleImprescindible: Roujiamo (meat in a bun), Hulutou paomo (pork-tripe soup with bread), Zenggao (steamed sticky-rice cake)
- Terracotta ArmyImprescindible: Roujiamo (meat in a bun), Yangrou paomo, Biangbiang noodles