Although not a food festival per se, the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in China features an extraordinary culinary element amidst its stunning ice sculptures and winter activities. Held from ...

With just over a week to go until the opening of the 9th Asian Winter Games, the streets of Harbin are alive with both the festive spirit of the Spring Festival and growing excitement for the upcoming ...

The ice blocks are harvested from the frozen Songhua River and will be used to make crystal palaces and sculptures at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival ... Marvel Ranked: 28 Foods That Are BETTER ...

The park’s opening kicks off the region’s annual Harbin Ice & Snow Festival, which has been held since 1999. The festival features winter activities like snow sculptures, ice bars, winter ...

Sculptors have finely chiseled ice into elaborate structures resembling landmark castles and temples in northeast China. AP People are making the best of the freezing weather in northeast China ...

Every year, the city of Harbin in ... construct the impressive Snow and Ice World. This year alone, 180,000 tons of ice were harvested for the city's 17th annual Ice Festival — the largest ...

Ice Festival kicked off on Jan. 11 in Hwacheon-gun County, Gangwon-do Province, allowing visitors to fully enjoy the winter event. The festival has been named one of the world's top four winter ...

Faced with temperatures dipping to -30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit), visitors to China's wintertime resort city of Harbin often make a beeline for stalls selling padded clothing to augment their wardrobes ...

From January to February, Sun Island also hosts the Snow Sculpture Exposition, one of the key activities of the Harbin Ice Festival. Looking for more ... incomparable local food. For an exciting ...

Harbin is also known for its ongoing winter festival, which features giant ice and snow sculptures, and smaller, delicate ones too. Yu, 61, said she found a sense of a big family and joy during ...

Rio Ohori, 20, a Japanese student at CUC, observed that behind this ice ... and food. "If I were approached like this in other places, I would usually avoid the conversation. But in Harbin ...

The main festival covers 1 square kilometer (.6 square miles) of the city, with the sculptures using 13,000 cubic meters (460,000 cubic feet) of ice blocks cut mainly from the adjacent Songhua River.