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.
Experiences / Food & Tea

Food & Tea
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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.
Full day · Hangzhou
Pick alongside farmers, fire the leaves in a wok, and drink the day's work looking back over the valley.
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.
3 hours · Shanghai
Four counters, one guide who has eaten them all, and the rules of eating xiaolongbao without wearing them.
Half day · Chengdu
From spice market to flaming wok: mapo tofu and twice-cooked pork, learned properly and eaten proudly.

Beijing · Xi'an · Shanghai
China's three great cities, done properly: dawn on the Great Wall, the Terracotta Army with a historian, and a Shanghai most visitors never find — with food stops that locals queue for.
Monthly, April–October
from US$2,890

Beijing
A long weekend inside the old city: courtyard living, the Forbidden City done right, dawn tai chi, and the wall without the crowds.
Weekly, year-round
from US$890

Shanghai
Three days inside China's most futuristic city: driverless rides, the maglev, startup campuses — balanced with the lanes and dumplings that make it livable.
Twice monthly, year-round
from US$760