Top 10 Things to Do in Guangzhou

Guangzhou — China's southern trading capital and the cradle of Cantonese civilisation — is a city that has been open to the world since the Tang Dynasty when Arab merchants first docked in its harbour. Today it balances the Canton Tower's futuristic LED skyline against Shamian Island's colonial villas, Yuexiu Park's ancient city walls, and the most famous food culture in all of China: dim sum breakfast at a century-old teahouse is the essential Guangzhou ritual. This city feeds the world and still finds time to feed itself better than anywhere else.