8. Dazhai, Guangxi Province

What you see is what you eat.

Not technically a city, but Dazhai is the best destination in China to enjoy fresh food as well as a stunning natural landscape on one trip.

The village is about three hours from Guilin by car and is at the base of the remote "Dragon's Backbone" rice terraces.

Here, the Yao minorities grow, make and forage everything they eat, including rice, tea, fern shoots, wild mushrooms and liquor brewed from wild berries.

Vegetables are plucked by farmers from the earth next to dining tables which overlook spectacular centuries-old rice fields.

Farmer Li's guesthouse is one of many lodgings that serve simple home-cooked dishes according to the season, for example: stir-fried pumpkin with fern shoots, or sticky rice cooked inside bamboo.

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Farmer Li's Quanjinglou Guesthouse, Longji rice terraces, Dazhai 全㬌楼, 广西省龙脊梯田大寨村, +86 773 758 5688

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