Five Datong dishes worth planning a trip around

Noodles shaved by blade, offal soup for breakfast, chilled jelly from Hunyuan — the local dishes that justify the trip.

Copper hotpot: Datong’s winter table

Charcoal in the chimney, mutton around the rim: how to eat Datong's charcoal-fired copper hotpot the way locals do.

A first-timer’s guide to Datong’s knife-cut noodles

What dao xiao mian is, how the blade work works, what to order, and what it costs — everything you need to walk into a Datong noodle shop with confidence.