Yangzhou is the Grand Canal at its most graceful: salt-merchant gardens, the willowed Slender West Lake, and a breakfast culture so serious that locals speak of "morning skin wrapped in water, evening water wrapped in skin" — teahouse dumplings at dawn, bathhouse steam at night. Come for two slow days and eat like it's 1750.

The full handbook is part of the paid series
You have read the free preview — the introduction and the route map. The complete handbook adds the day-by-day plan, tickets and transport, culture and etiquette, food, useful Chinese, and the dated source list.
