Jinghong

This friendly cafe is most probably the best cafe to sit and watch life on the streets of Jinghong. They offer great Western and Dai foods. They also provide guides for tours and treks.

This long-running cafe overseen by sisters Orchid and A-chun has a large outdoor terrace where you can enjoy local Dai or the highly rated pizzas, along with other western dishes. Their desserts are delicious. The Mei Mei has the best value beer at ¥16 for a large beer Lao.

There are many BBQ restaurants here. Special food, very delicious.

This is the largest BBQ place in Jinghong. You can sit either indoors or outdoors. You order the meat or vegetables up front. If you go early there will be beer girls who will sell you different brands of beer. Beer is pre-paid. Food is post paid. Many people come here after the bars and KTV closes. They stop serving food around 03:30, but you can drink all night.

Yunnan is rich in wild edible mushroom resources, so mushroom hotpot is also one of the local characteristics of food. You can enjoy a very delicious mushroom soup here.

They focus on coffee, but also serve quesadillas and pizza, plus do custom baking. It is about 10 minutes outside of town.

The best club in jinghong. Two DJ booths, open until 02:30 to 03:00.

This area is full of open air bars. People come here to eat and drink beers. The river portion is lined with bars, but the more inland bars have more customers.

Just tell the taxi driver "Xin Zhen Ai", the beers are cheap in this place. $100 for a dozen cans of beer. The crowd is younger than the crowd at Muse.

Just south of the bus station is a great option. Rooms here start at ¥60 for a double with air conditioning and attached bathroom.

Western toilets in all rooms. Courtyard and a rooftop terrace with lots of plants where many western travelers hang out. They also serve breakfast. Caffy speaks good English and can give advice about the area.

In a safe and quiet villa area by the Mekong River, you may enjoy the nice river view in most of our rooms

This long street is full of motels that run ¥50–60 a night for either a single or a double. Most have squat toilets, but two have western toilets.

Franchise hotel in 2nd and 3rd tier cities. The rooms are clean and new with western toilet. The cheapest room available as of 2014 is ¥100. You have a choose of one King size bed, or two queen size beds. There are pricier rooms available. Each room has ethernet and wifi connections available. Internet speed is 10 down and 2 up.

Every night there is a big night market in Xishuangbanna Park just on the right of the New Bridge. (The new bridge is the suspension bridge all lit up at night, and the right side is looking at it as you would be leaving Jinghong across it). You can buy almost anything here and there are endless street food stalls. The river side is all bars serving food, some with good live music.

A large open market and Thai themed stores centered around a stage. There are at least two bars on premise. Free live music at night at around 19:00.

It is the largest market in the area and many locals also go there to buy food. There are plenty of local speciality vegetables and meats, as well as some gourmet meals made on-site, for which you only have to pay a processing fee. If you want to know more about the food culture of this place, it is highly recommended that you visit this place.

This market is the largest local fruit wholesale market in Jinghong. Because tropical fruits abound here, you can buy a lot of fruit here at a very low price, and probably a lot of fruit you've never seen before.