Ningbo Travel Guide

Ningbo cuisine (Ning-style) is mainly salty and umami, skilled at cooking seafood. Must-eats: Ningbo tangyuan (Gangyagou! black sesame and lard filling, the skin is so glutinous it stretches into threads), seafood noodles (yellow croaker noodles/seafood mixed noodles, the broth is so umami it's moving), red roe pickled crab (raw-marinated swimming crab—Ningbo people's "rice-pressing hammer"), snow vegetable large yellow croaker, Ningbo roasted vegetables. Spice level is completely non-spicy, salty and umami.

D1: Tianyi Pavilion (a must-visit!) + Moon Lake Park + Drum Tower + Nantang Old Street (a snack street); D2: Dongqian Lake (cycling around the lake/Fuquan Mountain tea garden) + Old Bund (20 years earlier than Shanghai's Bund, a bar street). Add a 1-2 day trip to Putuo Mountain (2h by car + boat from Ningbo). Budget: 700-1500 yuan.