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Food & Tea

Food & Tea风味与茶

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China has eight great cuisines and ten thousand small ones. We take you to the source: wet markets with a cook, a soup-dumpling counter at opening, tea terraces at picking season. Medicinal cuisine (yaoshan) appears here too — the culinary half of Chinese wellness, and one of its most delicious.

A Day on the Tea Terraces龙井茶山

Full day · Hangzhou

Pick alongside farmers, fire the leaves in a wok, and drink the day's work looking back over the valley.

Medicinal Cuisine Table (Yaoshan)药膳

A long lunch · Hangzhou, Chengdu

A restaurant where the menu is prescribed like a gentle tonic — herbs, soups, and seasons matched to how you actually feel.

Soup-Dumpling Crawl小笼包

3 hours · Shanghai

Four counters, one guide who has eaten them all, and the rules of eating xiaolongbao without wearing them.

Sichuan Wok Class川菜

Half day · Chengdu

From spice market to flaming wok: mapo tofu and twice-cooked pork, learned properly and eaten proudly.

Journeys with food & tea at their heart