Beijing Travel Blog

How Cheap is Cheap? $5 in China can get you a lot of food, and not sub-par food, either. But spending $5 on a cultural experience that you’ll remember the rest of your life and be able to bring up at every ‘have you ever’ party is a bit more difficult. The Best $5 You’ll Ever Spend. A visit to...

1. Small courtyard residences called hutongs used to be the common style of residence in Beijing. Many have since disappeared, but you can still get the feel for the old city at The Courtyard, and the food is a creative and refined take on Asian-European fusion. 2. One Chinese specialty that you can’t...

Once in a while there is nothing better than forgetting about that all important diet or wondering about where your next salad will come from and just going all-out for a buffet. Whilst buffets are found all over the world – certainly Europe and the US are no strangers to the ‘all-you-can-eat’...