Where Neon Skylines Meet Ancient Mountain Soul Chongqing after dark transforms into Asia’s cyberpunk dream — layers of neon, elevated walkways, and a skyline that belongs in a sci-fi movie. Photo by Albert Canite / Unsplash Welcome to Chongqing, China’s…
I had not planned on liking Shanghai. Friends had warned me it was the Chinese city that had given up on being Chinese, just glass towers and Starbucks and lanes built for cars. I went anyway because my flight landed…
The first thing I ate in Guangzhou was a steamed shrimp dumpling at 7:40am, in a dim sum hall on the second floor of a building that did not look like a restaurant from the street. My host had picked…
