• An ORIGINAL and INDPENDENT China travel guide

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  • Travel Smart in Guangzhou: The China Experience

  • Travel Smart in Chengdu: The China Experience

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Common China Questions from Travellers.
Navigating China using map apps.
Night view of Chongqing skyline with tall buildings and a bridge through a stone window in the foreground.
People waiting on a modern train station platform in China with a sleek black and white bullet train in the background, under a large, industrial-style arched roof with metal supports.
Cost of living in China. A street stall selling watermelons with a box of watermelons on a crate in front. A handwritten sign in Chinese mentions the price, 1.8 yuan per jin.
Which Places should I visit in China
Planning Your Visit to China
Essential Apps In China
List of Chinese Apps
How to Get Around in China
Making Payments In China
Phone and Internet in China
Using Translation Apps in China
Weather in China

Welcome to my practical China travel guide! My name is YenKid. I’m Chinese and live in China. I’m also a native English speaker.

This website contains my personal tips to help you plan your trip to China and remove your worries about travelling as a first-time visitor.

How is this website different?

  • You will find an original collection of practical focused guides and personal insights written entirely by me. All in 2025.

  • I place less focus on inspirational content compared to most websites, because I believe many people would benefit from practical advice. My guides contain the best of local and foreign perspectives about China travel.

  • I write with the aim of providing relevant, up-to-date tips to improve your overall travel experience. My aim is to act as a valuable resource both before and after you arrive in China.

Why should you rely on my guides?

  • You will read honest, independent opinions based on my own experience. No one has paid me to write anything. I have no team. I have a lot of family and friends who travel to China every year, so I keep updated with the challenges faced by current tourists.

  • There is no sponsored content or AI content here (so much of it is either wrong or incomplete. Not to mention, it sounds horrible to me).

  • I’m not a tour guide and not associated with any tour agencies.

Let’s get you started! ⬇️

Mini-Guides

中国 My Highlight Cities

Temple of Heaven, Beijing
Pudong skyline, Shanghai
Shenzhen city
Canton Tower, Guangzhou
Giant Panda, Chengdu Research Base
Chongqing skyline

Finder’s Corner

Assorted dim sum in bamboo steamers on a table at a restaurant.
Designed in China Brands
Night view of illuminated modern skyscrapers with curved shapes and colorful neon lights in a cityscape.
Chinese New Year / Spring Festival scene of a glowing lantern display featuring intricate floral and dragon designs, with a crowd of people gathered around, and trees illuminated in the background.
China City Gallery
Intelligent humanoid robot sculpture.

My Advice

中国 My Flavourful Cities

Terracotta Army, Xi'an
Jimeng Temple, Nanjing
West Lake, Hangzhou
Jinji Lake, Suzhou
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Saint Paul's, Macau

Hope you find my website useful!

Who am I?

  • I am Chinese, but was raised in an English speaking country. I can speak 6 languages to varying degrees of fluency.

  • Growing up abroad gave me the opportunity to experience China both as a local and an outsider. I too faced many of the same problems that many foreign tourists experience, so I’m in the perfect position to give you the some of the best tips available.

My mission

  • I started this website with a mission: to provide essential information to visitors to China, to make your journeys as seamless as possible, to help make your China experience the best it can be!

  • A lot of the content is based off my own travel notes that I have used to help family and friends. Born and raised outside China, I returned several years ago for the long-term - completing one of my childhood’s ambitions. So, I can appreciate the foreigner’s perspective of travelling around China better than most, while having deep insider knowledge about everyday life in China.

  • I know that it is not easy for people outside of China to find up-to-date and relevant information. I hope this website can help guide your journey and solve common problems, giving you greater confidence in taking the plunge and enjoy what China has to offer.

  • I hope to play my part in enhancing the connection and understanding between China and the rest of the world.

  • I will continue to develop new features to help more people like you travel easily across China while discovering the magic of the country.

  • This website is entirely self-funded by me only.

Quick Questions about China?

Little Intelligent Helper can help!

Little Intelligent Helper is an AI search tool. You can use it if you require information about something more specific about your travels to China that has not been covered above. Note the answers have not been written by me. It is powered by the DeepSeek AI engine, which forms an answer based off various Internet sources (not including this website). The answers are therefore independent of this website, and may not be entirely accurate. You should refer to my personal recommendations as the first port of call - it is much more likely to be up-to-date and relevant.
For more detailed answers like planning an itinerary or asking about the history of a city, check out the detailed AI version using the link below:

YenKid’s Intelligent Helper

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