My hometown My hometown is Tianjin, which means a lot to me, it is a beauty coastal city in northern China, located along the west coast of the Bohai Gulf, bordered by Beijing to the northwest, and surrounded on all sides by Hebei province. Its name means 'the place where the emperor crossed the river'. Facing the Bohai Sea, Tianjin, the one time imperial port, serves as Beijing's vital gateway to the sea. The geography of Tianjin is generally flat with more than 100 km of coastline, and swampy near the coast, but hilly in the far north, where the Yan Mountains intrude into northern Tianjin. For all people who have a deep understanding of this city, including me, it is considered to be extremely well known for the Tianjin cuisine. Let me show you an example, in the Food Street, a covered alleyway having more than 50 restaurants, you’ll find anything from soup to snake on the menu. Specially, Tianjin cannabis, Goubuli steamed stuffed buns as well as Erduoyan Fried Cake were the top there food and popular among tourists home and aboard. In most cases, visitors must queue to buy them. Maybe my personal experience can help you to understand that, it was on a hot summer day, I went to eat Goubuli at lunch time. Lots of eaters there and it was hard to get a table. The steamed stuffed buns were delicately made and looked like crafts rather than food. I really love my hometown and the food here.