Guangzhou, the City That Eats All Day — editorial illustration
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Guangzhou

the City That Eats All Day

Editorial illustration · not a site photograph
  • 2 daysold quarters, river nights and long meals
  • Oct–Novdry and bright; flower fairs at New Year
  • By raila high-speed hub for all of southern China
  • Ritualmorning tea is the point, not a stop

Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong and the historic heart of Cantonese China — a port on the Pearl River for two thousand years, and a city that has always measured itself by the table. Locals say "eat in Guangzhou" and mean it: morning tea is a ritual, dinner an institution, and between the two lie arcade streets, an island of old consulates, a granite Gothic cathedral and the brightest skyline on the river. Give it two unhurried days, and eat as often as you walk.

Local diners sharing dim sum and tea in a traditional Guangzhou teahouse
Morning tea in Guangzhou · editorial illustration

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