Xi'an
The top floor of So Young City Center Hostel hosts this quirky, loft-style bar full of wooden benches and beams, plants, country flags and a friendly…
Must-see nightlife in China
Suzhou
Upmarket bar and restaurant with a small rooftop terrace, serving craft beers from Taipei-based Zhǎngmén Brewing Company. This is the company’s only…
Shanghai Old City
Next to the entrance to the Yuyuan Gardens is the Mid-Lake Pavilion Teahouse, once part of the gardens and now one of the most famous teahouses in China,…
Hong Kong
The terrace at Honi Honi is a tropical-island oasis that literally rises above the mayhem of Lan Kwai Fung. It was Hong Kong's first tiki bar and although…
Hong Kong
Take the elevator to the 25th floor and then keep going up until you reach the Skydeck; this glam bar has three floors but there's only one place you want…
Xi'an
Doubling as a good restaurant, enterprising Jamaica Blue gets a daily workout come sundown as a fine and sociable bar, with live crooning at around 9pm…
Fujian
Every midsized Chinese city has a place where expats go to meet up and whinge about living in a midsized Chinese city. Quanzhou has the Brickyard, and it…
Beijing
At this popular rooftop cafe with seating indoors and out, your coffee, cake or sandwich is served with a side order of eye candy: the White Dagoba Temple…
Himalayan Coffee & Trading Co.
Sichuan
The best coffee in town is served at this bright, cool and busy place near the big yak sculpture. Wraps, pizzas, house-baked pastries, waffles and wi-fi…
Xi'an
In the basement bowels of the Shuyuan Youth Hostel, this music bar is a tip-top riot and a fun night out. Staff are excellent and very mindful. It has…
Hong Kong
This welcoming bar with cheap, classic cocktails is decorated with the charming fixtures and fittings of the old Peak Cafe from 1947, which was replaced…
Shanghai
Pudong keeps its edge honed with two of the highest bars in the world at 100 Century Avenue. It's pretty impressive inside, but the restaurant on the 91st…
Temple of Heaven Park & Dongcheng South
Hip counter-top hangout for perfectly patterned coffee and fab cookies. After dark, a magic wand gets waved and the cafe transforms, Cinderella-style,…
Beijing
Handsomely on-theme is this industrial-chic coffee space. It's cool, airy and bathed in natural light, and baristas fuss over single-origin pour-overs and…
Shenzhen
Bartenders clamber up stepladders to access their impressive cache of whiskies (some 500 to 600 bottles) in this smart bar sharing the same office-block…
Beijing
The outermost branch of Beijing's original craft brewpub is a stylish affair enclosing a giant oval bar with 30 taps pouring both Great Leap beers and…
Henan
Giving Zhengzhou's iffy beer scene a good kick in the pants, this upstairs bar has 20 beers on tap, including some brewed by the Lazy Taps microbrewery in…
Beijing
Ground zero for Gulou's laptop warriors, Zarah is a stylish hutong hangout adored for its charming staff, good coffee and welcomingly bookish ambience. By…
Hong Kong
Behind started at one of the first gay clubs in Hong Kong, Club 97 in Lan Kwai Fong (now closed), and has gone on to become a roving club night. It's an…
Shanghai
With charmingly eclectic mismatched furniture and musical instruments on the wall, this laid-back cafe serves reasonably priced noodles, drinks and snacks…
Shanghai Old City
This stretch of the Bund is ideal for a rooftop bar and Char ticks all the boxes. The outdoor terrace has some of the finest views over the Huangpu River…
Shanghai
You'll likely spot this beer brand all over town, and this two-floor warehouse-style space is where it's brewed in enormous vats. Choose from dozens of…
Sichuan
Perched atop the Longfeng mountain park, this teahouse in a historical-style pagoda is a fantastic place to drink tea (from ¥8) and admire the view over…
Hong Kong
A swish cocoon away from Central's crowds, MO Bar is attached to the swanky Landmark Mandarin Oriental just inside the entrance to Landmark mall, yet…
Chengdu
Stop in for a decent selection of US, European and Chinese craft brews, including from Chengdu's Wild West Taproom, and a top-floor terrace removed from…
Hong Kong
After its success as a pop-up in Hong Kong in 2016, this New York speakeasy finally opened its first-ever permanent fixture outside of the States. Hidden…
Eling Testbed 2 Cultural Creative Park
Chongqing City
Perched near the top of Eling Park, this 1950s currency-printing factory has been revamped as a hip industrial hangout, with bars, stylish restaurants, 20…
Hong Kong
This social-enterprise cafe on the top deck of Pier 8 provides employment and training for students of the Nesbitt Centre, a local NGO helping adults with…
Hong Kong
A series of interlinking jail cells in the former Central Police Station, now Tai Kwun heritage complex, have been given a clever makeover to create this…
Beijing
Like the Alamo for homeless hutong venues, this courtyard contains craft-beer bar El Nido, cocktail den Fang Bar, and Komex taco joint LA Palms – three…
Hong Kong
This playfully named bar is clubby, chic and known for its cocktails, such as rainbow fruit tea. Black walls provide a striking contrast to a backlit row…
Macau
Macau's most elusive bar is not so due to its location (a few doors up from Che Che Cafe) or that it's unknown, but because whether one gets in depends on…
Hong Kong
Central's best LGBTIQ+ night out is Petticoat Lane, a basement club with sparkling foliage hanging above the bar, a dance floor, a small outdoor terrace…
Shanghai Old City
A bit like the attic of an eccentric aunt, this wonderfully decrepit 2nd-floor teahouse, overlooking the throng of Old Street, is a temple to the 1930s,…
Shanghai
Large tap room serving craft brews from California, with seating for more than 100 drinkers in an industrial-chic layout with exposed concrete beams and…
Hong Kong
A local favourite among Western District residents, Junels Resto Bar is a Philippine restaurant with a difference (basically, you won't come here for the…
Hong Kong
The moreish, heady scent of freshly roasting coffee is amplified in this speciality coffee shop, thanks to the roasting room directly behind the counter…
Hong Kong
This Chinese medicine shop has a counter selling herbal teas – for detoxing, getting rid of water, cooling the body or treating colds. The most popular is…
Beijing
This dark and moody cocktail den, all swinging red lanterns and discreet corners, is a hidden hutong gem that lends itself to contemplative drinking,…
Beijing
The glammest party in town (at least until the next one comes along) is Ladies' Night at Mei every Thursday. Freeflow champers for the girls between 9pm…
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