The first time I went to New York I stayed at the YMCA. I didn't know anyone in the city, I'd heard that Americans didn't really do backpacking,...

Eat It is a regular feature that cuts to the core of a given restaurant's menu, highlighting a specialty, favorite, or otherwise good thing to...

Eat It is a new regular feature that cuts to the core of a given restaurant's menu, highlighting a specialty, favorite, or otherwise good...

When discussing the city's local cuisine, non¨Clocals have the tendency to be disparaging in their criticism. Like the city itself,...

A local food critic recently wrote that Shanghai is a city of great dishes, but inconsistent restaurants. Indeed Shanghai's menus can be...

The common atmosphere of an authentic hot pot restaurant, no matter its origin -- Beijing, Mongolia, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Taiwan, Hong...

All too often, foreigners living in Shanghai see a monstrous line of locals in front of a food stall, get discouraged, and walk right on by....

I first saw hand-pulled noodles on my first trip to China, ten years ago. I'd never seen anything like it -- a man pulling a ball of dough as...

Everyone has their favorite Sichuan restaurant, and they tend to defend their choice with irrational passion. Most of us tend to focus on...

Fast food chains don't normally get reviewed by restaurant critics. We're making an exception for Kung Fu, though, because we think they're...

You probably already know about Charmant. Located in the French Concession, it's a hub, a cornerstone, an institution, a second office, a...

I often find myself, like everyone else, at Logo Bar, a few nights a week. While most of the drunks there prefer to grab a few skewers of yang...

I avoided Pin Chuan at first because a Shanghainese friend derided it as a "place that only foreigners go," alluding that it's not authentic...