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  1. Rank 259. Wei Shi Jia

    Cantonese

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  3. Rank 259. Wu Ji Guai Wei Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  4. Rank 259. Wu Lan Sha Cha Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  5. Rank 259. Wu Ming Lao Lu Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  6. Rank 259. Wu Tang Sha Cha Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  7. Rank 259. Wu Zi Mian Guan

    Zhejiang Noodle Shop

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  8. Rank 259. Wuwei Natural Food

    Vegetarian Fujian

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  9. Rank 259. Xian Xiong Qi

    Fujian Seafood

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  14. Rank 259. Xiao Bai Cai

    Zhejiang

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  21. Rank 259. Xiao Shan Wei Dao

    Xiaoshan Zhejiang

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  25. Rank 259. Xiguan Zhuyuan (Shiba Fu)

    Cantonese Noodle Shop

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  27. Rank 259. Xin Liu He

    Zhejiang

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  32. Rank 259. Xiu Cai Yang Rou Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  35. Rank 259. Xue Miao Zhu Zang Fen

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  36. Rank 259. Xun Wei Jiang Nan

    Ningbo Zhejiang

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  38. Rank 259. Ya Yuan

    Chinese

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  39. Rank 259. Yan Ji Gao Tou Pu

    Wenzhou Zhejiang

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  43. Rank 259. Yangzhou Yan · Qu Yuan

    Yangzhou Chinese

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  45. Rank 259. Yao Guai Mian

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  46. Rank 259. Yao Ji

    Cantonese

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  47. Rank 259. Ye Jia Hua Sheng Tang

    Traditional Fuzhou Dessert

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  48. Rank 259. Ye Long Jing

    Zhejiang

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  52. Rank 259. Yibin

    Sichuan

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  54. Rank 259. Yong Zuo

    Teochew

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  57. Rank 259. You Mian

    Suzhou-style Huaiyang Noodle Shop

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  58. Rank 259. Yu Cheng

    Huaiyang

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  62. Rank 259. Yu Ji Seafood

    Wenzhou-style Zhejiang

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  64. Rank 259. Yu Xian Lou

    Seafood Fujian

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  68. Rank 259. Ze 8 (Haizhu)

    Cantonese

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  75. Rank 259. Zhi He Lao Ya Fen Si Tang

    Nanjing Jiangsu Noodle Shop

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  76. Rank 259. Zhi Zhu

    Vegetarian Noodle Shop

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  79. Rank 259. Zhou Men

    Noodle Shop

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  85. Raffles occupies the central tower of One Shenzhen Bay, which means rooms look out over the bay from a height that makes the city feel theoretical. The hotel carries its colonial Singapore heritage lightly, pairing classic room details with butler service, Ferragamo bath products, and enough high-tech convenience to keep you busy. Cantonese, Japanese, and Western restaurants share the building with a spa and a 25-meter indoor pool. It holds a Michelin Key.

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  86. The 52-story sail-shaped tower is hard to miss from anywhere on Haitang Bay, and inside, the aquatic theme goes well past decor: the Neptune and Poseidon suites put your bedroom below the waterline, glass wall facing a live aquarium. It's a sprawling resort in the Atlantis mold, 130 acres of waterslides, marine encounters, pools, and 21 restaurants. Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen handles the British contingent. Forbes Four Star.


  87. The buildings are sand-colored and scattered across a hillside in China's Min Mountains, staged to look more like a village than a luxury resort, which is either modest or very clever marketing. Either way, Jiuzhai Valley National Park fills every window, and the Conrad earns its Forbes Four Star rating by leaning into that view without coasting on it. Sleek interiors and polished service keep things feeling properly high-end once you're inside.

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  88. Perched on floors 37 through 54 of a sail-shaped tower on Xiamen's southwestern coast, this Forbes Four Star hotel arranges wall-to-wall windows so that the views over Gulangyu Island and the bay follow you from the pool to the bar to your bathtub. Staff the hotel calls "curators" will help you plan excursions into the city, though the attached shopping mall makes it easy to never leave the building at all.

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  89. The art here isn't hung on walls to be politely ignored; it's built to be touched, sat in, and argued about, which sets the mood for the whole hotel. MGM Shanghai West Bund sits on the Huangpu River promenade in the West Bund, a former industrial waterfront that traded its wharves for galleries and AI startups. A Forbes Four Star property, it has 219 rooms and a spa, and the neighborhood makes it easy to stay busy without trying.

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  90. The concierge who once caught a flight to Hong Kong for a guest's cigars sets the tone at this Forbes Four Star hotel in Jing'an. Ritz-Carlton service in one of Shanghai's most walkable neighborhoods means Nanjing Road shopping, street food, and an acrobatic theatre in the attached Shanghai Centre are all within easy reach. The kind of place where you ask the concierge before you google anything.

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  91. A glass tower rising over Lianhua Park, this Forbes Four Star hotel keeps things surprisingly calm for a property planted in Xiamen's commercial core. AB Concept's interiors pile on the botanical details beneath double-height ceilings, and the fifth-floor terrace has a pool that seems designed specifically to be photographed. Wall-to-wall windows throughout mean you're never far from the skyline, whether you want to be or not.

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  92. Floors 30 through 59 of the Jing An Kerry Centre, which means the lobby's wall-of-water feature is technically closer to the clouds than to the street. This is a luxury hotel in the Shangri-La mold, so more is always more: marble bathrooms with heated floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, suites with silver mosaic walls and Bulgari products. The lap pool sits under a sky dome, and the 55th-floor lounge turns Shanghai's skyline into wallpaper.

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  93. Floors 36 to 48 of a downtown tower, which means the skyline views start before you've even unpacked. This Forbes Four Star hotel runs 287 rooms with dark wood floors and jet tubs, and the design works in latticework and calligraphy-inspired details without tipping into theme-park territory. The onsite garden grows actual vegetables for the kitchen, a small fact that lands differently once you've seen how high up you are.


  94. The sky lobby is on the 62nd floor, which sets the tone for this luxury hotel perched atop Changsha's tallest tower inside the IFS complex. Conran and Partners worked Hunan's landscape into the interiors, so the rooms carry sage greens and timber in place of the usual corporate palette. The pool and wellness floor sit high enough to make a spa day feel mildly vertiginous. It holds a Forbes Four Star and a Michelin Key.

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  95. The tiered tower looks like a century-old skyscraper that never got the memo about going bigger, which turns out to be a compliment in a city of glass giants. This Jing'an hotel layers contemporary Chinese art over an interior that somehow reads both postmodern and classically Shanghainese without the identity crisis. THE ONE Restaurant & Bar handles meals with a roving international menu, and the central location keeps the whole city within reach.

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  96. Thirty acres of beachfront palms on Hainan Island, closer to Vietnam than to Shanghai, where the Mandarin Oriental traded its usual city-tower format for a sprawling low-rise resort along Coral Bay. Rooms come with balconies, villas sit right on the beach, and the spa village is large enough to get genuinely lost in, which seems to be the point. Bill Bensley designed it, and the warm wood and open-air architecture feel right for a place that holds a Forbes Four Star.


  97. A golf resort on Hainan Island sitting inside Mission Hills, one of the largest golf complexes on earth, with ten championship courses rolling across volcanic terrain outside every window. The rooms and villas lean into the clubhouse fantasy: dark paneling, leather, tartan, marble. The spa runs on local volcanic mineral springs, and the rooftop bar on the 20th floor is a solid reason to put the clubs away for the evening. Forbes Four Star.


  98. A man-made private ocean sits at the center of this sprawling Hainan Island resort, which is exactly the kind of sentence that sounds like marketing copy until you see it. The Sanya Edition spreads across fifty acres of waterfront, with gondolas ferrying guests to a floating restaurant, lotus pools in the lobby, and over five hundred rooms all facing the sea. Forbes Four Star. Pack light; the dress code is essentially "near water at all times."


  99. The lobby chandelier is modeled on a dress Caroline Astor once wore to one of her legendary late-night parties, which tells you where this hotel's head is at. Floors 58 through 78 of the Haitian Center above Fushan Bay, the St. Regis Qingdao has the full complement: butler service, a spa, Cantonese seafood at Yan Ting, and a Bloody Mary spiked with Qingdao beer and local clams. It holds a Forbes Four Star.


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