Explore China Like A Local

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6. Find A Hard Bed Hotel

There’s plenty of American hotel chains that have put down roots in major Chinese cities, but none of them have the one amenity that’s unusual for Americans: a hard mattress. Chinese beds aren’t stuffed with soft material but rather a thin sheet on top of wooden boards. This is a practice that dates back throughout Chinese history, where the rich had pillows of jade.