Datong | How great is Datong during the off-season! Delicious food and fun activities!

🛍️Shopping Buddha's Companion: Head straight to the concept store, they have the most and the widest selection. Vinegar: There are many handmade vinegar shops in the ancient city, with a wide variety of flavors to try. I went to Mulan's and tried their vinegar, which cost 1000 yuan per jin (500g), and it was so sour it made me cry! You could smell the vinegar from far away. My family loves vinegar, so we packed it up and had it shipped home. ☕️Drinking Mewe Coffee: Fenjiu Dirty, and they poured a generous amount. 🚶Exploring Yungang Grottoes (Smooth entry during the off-season, definitely need a guide, a dream come true!) Huayan Temple Shanhua Temple Datong Ancient City Southeast Yi Datong Museum Datong Art Museum 🍚Eating Jinxidao: The Hermes of knife-cut noodles, so flavorful! All the knife-cut noodles I've eaten before must have been fake! Fengling Pavilion: No queues even in the off-season. Experienced a restaurant built for 500 million yuan and a toilet costing 5 million yuan. Ordered nine different flavors of shumai and hot pot, the food was decent. Purple Clay 369 Coarse Grains: The lamb offal noodles were a bit salty. The cold noodles would be so refreshing in summer! The stir-fried pork was delicious, so good with rice, I ordered another bowl! Ge Kai Restaurant: They have a wide variety of dishes, but the lamb offal noodles were the best! The sweet and sour pork was completely different from the traditional tomato version; it was all meat, not powdery at all, but very crispy! The flavored eggplant was so delicious I couldn't stop eating it. The walnut pie and sea buckthorn ice cream are a must-try!!! He Sheng Cai: I bought sea buckthorn and hawthorn ice cream bread; the filling was generous, very tasty. I want to go to Datong again to fulfill my wish of visiting the Hanging Temple and eating bean noodles.