Jianbing guozi, Goubuli buns and gabacai: everyday breakfast traditions in the old garrison city of Tianjin.
Published event guides and travel information for Tianjin.
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Places and neighborhoods worth exploring in Tianjin.
A 110-meter-diameter Ferris wheel over the Hai River on Yongle Bridge, reaching 120 meters at its highest point. The source describes it as the only wheel built on a bridge and gives a twenty-eight-minute circuit.
Machang, Munan, Dali, Changde and Chongqing avenues gather more than two thousand buildings in British, French, German, Italian, Spanish and mixed styles, an architectural panorama beneath street trees.
A preserved Italian-style neighborhood around Marco Polo Square, with brick arcades, iron balconies and stone lanes, described as Asia's only intact district of its kind.
Tianhou Temple anchors a street of Qing-style vernacular buildings, traditional crafts and longstanding names such as Clay Figurine Zhang, Yangliuqing New Year prints and Kite Wei.
Known as the foremost mountain east of Beijing, visited thirty-two times by Emperor Qianlong. Its three levels are associated with water below, rocks midway and pines above.
A French-style house decorated with more than four hundred million old porcelain fragments and thirteen thousand ceramic objects, described as one of the world's most valuable houses.
Tianjin's signature street-food highlights.
A thin mung-bean crepe with egg wraps a freshly fried crisp cracker, sweet wheat sauce, fermented-tofu sauce, chili oil and scallions: the breakfast that draws early Tianjin queues.
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Partly fermented wrappers, broth-rich filling and at least eighteen even pleats define this specialty, founded in 1858, the eighth Xianfeng year, and refined for more than 160 years.
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Glutinous-rice dough encloses house-made red bean filling and fries to a golden shell with a soft, sticky center. Born near Erduoyan Lane in the Guangxu era, it is one of Tianjin's Three Great Specialties.
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Guifaxiang's layered fried twists braid plain and sesame-coated strands around a filling of sesame, walnuts, melon seeds and other ingredients, producing a crisp rather than hard texture.
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A thin mung-bean pancake is cut into willow-leaf strips and covered with hot vegetarian gravy, sesame paste, fermented-tofu sauce, chili oil and coriander: a distinctly Tianjin breakfast.
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Rice flour steams in small wooden molds above a whistling cart, then receives hawthorn paste, red bean paste or sesame sugar: a childhood taste for Tianjin residents.
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How to enjoy Tianjin's street-food highlights.
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