Tianjin Travel Guide

For an experience that’s exclusively Tianjin, your best option for nighttime entertainment is xiangsheng, also known as “comic dialogue” or “crosstalk”. This is one of the quyi, or traditional forms of Chinese entertainment. Usually with two people on stage (although sometimes one or several), xiangsheng is the quyi art that largely originated in Tianjin several hundred years ago. In xiangsheng, the performers engage in a... Read More

Start out with a walk around the former French, Russian, and British concession areas. Although many structures have been torn down and/or replaced, there are still quite a few examples of 19th century European architecture. It’s amazing to happen upon an Italian-style fountain or church built in the French style among the ubiquitous shiny skyscrapers of modern China. Houses and smaller buildings in the European styles also still remain in certain... Read More

Like any large city in China, you can get food from pretty much every other region. Sichuanese, Yunnanese, Hunanese – you name it. However, Tianjin has its own specialties as well, and what better way to get to know the city than to try its unique culinary delicacies? Most famous of all Tianjin dishes is the goubuli baozi, or goubuli steamed buns. These are similar to many of the steamed buns you’ll find around China, but are large and plumply... Read More