Private dining restaurants in Shenzhen are everywhere, but most of them are just regular restaurants with a...
Ray Lam
Grew up trilingual in Hong Kong, fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. Crosses the Lok Ma Chau border to Shenzhen most weekends. Knows the Luohu and Futian metro like his own neighbourhood and which Dianping ratings to trust. Pays in WeChat, complains about queue times, and maps the Greater Bay Area food scene from the passenger seat of a DiDi.
Most Shenzhen restaurant lists are written by people who visited once and ranked everything by Dianping score....
Most first-time visitors to China default to Beijing and Shanghai and call it a trip. That barely...
Most Spanish travellers assume a trip to mainland China still means weeks of paperwork and embassy queues....
Most Hong Kong families cross the border for hotpot and a foot massage. That leaves the best...
Most Hong Kong visitors never make it past Shekou's waterfront. They should. A year-old siu mei shop...
Most Hong Kong visitors to Futian rush straight to COCO Park, grab boba, and head back across...
Qianhai-Shekou Day Trip from Hong Kong: Cherry Blossoms, Sea World and Late-Night Fig Chicken Hotpot
Most Hong Kong weekenders in the Qianhai-Shekou zone stop at Sea World for a photo and call...
Most cross-border shoppers treat Dongmen as a phone-case-and-bubble-tea pitstop. That undersells it. We spent an afternoon inside...
