Jennifer is travel & food writer who grew up in a suburban corner of New Jersey. She has received an International Association of Culinary Professionals award for her series on Filipino restaurants around the world and a James Beard nomination for an article she did for Eater on Korean-Inupiat hybrid cuisine in Alaska. She's also senior editor of a print magazine in California and has been featured on outlets like ABS-CBN News and Comstock's magazine.
Taizhou is one of those Chinese cities with a history that stretches staggeringly deep into the past. It was first settled some five thousand years ago and is home to both the only Great Wall in Southern China and a 1500-year-old monastery that founded a school of Buddhism. That monastery is located atop Tiantai Mountain, …
Thanks to its wide, accessible port, Shantou was once one of most economically important cities in China, doing brisk business with traders from across the world. In the 19th century, Shantou was a bustling, cosmopolitan port town with a large foreign community. Over the course of the following turbulent centuries, Shantou fell behind other ports …
