If you have only one day to tour in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, most locals will recommend that you visit Jinci, a temple with 3,000 years' history.
Qinglong town, or "azure dragon town", 10 kilometers north of Taiyuan in Shanxi, used to be a village surrounded by sweet wormwoods sitting at the main road connecting Shanxi province, a historical economic powerhouse, with Inner Mongolia, since early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) .
Dongshan in Fujian province offers rich coastal cultural heritage
Although Dongshan is now famous for its leafy environment, back in the 1950s, most of the island was covered by desert.
Born in Dongshan, Huang Dao-zhou was a calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty.
The MGM Macau recently hosted an open-kitchen event to showcase its party sous-chef, Micky Ma, who recently represented the Chinese national team at the bi-annual La Coupe du Monde de la Patisserie 2015 in France, a demanding contest for pastry chefs that has been dubbed "the Olympics of the culinary world".
As high-end restaurants and hotels push to make meals entertaining, ice artists are coming out of the workshop and into the dining room. Zhang Xuan and Mike Peters chat with a father-son duo of Filipino chefs
About 1,500 years ago, Mongol horsemen, cooking over campfires, seared meat in their shields and simmered soup in their upturned helmets.
The other day a friend mentioned a restaurant that had just opened near her home and said she was skeptical if it could make money because when she dined there she was given an incredibly generous run for hers.
For a person who has just escaped smog-choked Beijing, the weather in Dongtou is a blessing - bright sunshine, crystal clear air and a moist breeze.
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