A bowl of huimian in Zhengzhou costs about 18 yuan. Follow it backwards — through wheat fields, harvest crews, grain stations, flour mills and noodle kitchens ...

A close look at Zibo BBQ and Yantai seafood shows how Shandong's food culture travels through table-side grills, morning seafood markets, cold chains, social media, and ...

At 7 a.m. in a Kunming wet market, bamboo worms sell for more than pork and nobody films them. A three-day field study of how Yunnan's ...

Putian made its name cranking out near-perfect knockoff sneakers. Now a generation of young makers is trying to build real brands from the same supply chain ...

Two people buy the same grouper in the same aisle of a Sanya seafood market and walk away with different bills. Here's what actually sits behind ...

At 5:50 a.m. on Haikou's Bo'ai Road, a steamer lid comes off and a tray of pale coconut cake goes onto a wooden board. What a ...

In the hills of central Hainan, bamboo rice is not a staged attraction but a family staple, cooked over charcoal on ordinary weeknights. A close look ...

In a six-table restaurant in Linxia, Gansu, a 58-year-old chef has cooked hand-torn mutton for three decades. His story is a window into small-restaurant economics, family ...

A street-level food guide to the 800-kilometer Hexi Corridor, from Lanzhou beef noodles to Dunhuang night markets, told through the breakfasts, lunches and small shops ordinary ...

In Kunming, tourists buy vacuum-packed rice noodles while locals queue for a hot breakfast bowl. Yunnan food looks different once you see what people eat on ...