Chinese New Year dinner is the most important meal of the year. Families travel thousands of kilometers for it. And almost every dish has a meaning, usually a pun. Here’s what’s on the table and what it means. The reunion dinner New Year’s Eve is the “reunion dinner” (年夜饭). Families gather, eat, and stay up…

China produces more tea than any country on Earth, and drinks it in a way that’s closer to wine tasting than to grabbing a cup on the go. But the world of Chinese tea can feel like a locked door: green, black, oolong, pu’er, white, yellow — what’s the difference? Why does the same leaf…

Ask someone to name Chinese food and they’ll say dumplings, noodles, fried rice. Not wrong. But that’s like summing up Italian food as “pizza.” Chinese food culture is one of the oldest and most varied on Earth — eight great cuisines, hundreds of regional dishes, and a set of table rules that go back thousands…