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📌 Qixia Apple's Hardcore Personality "China's Apple Capital" isn't called that for nothing! The apples here 🍏: ✅ Sweetness level 18°+ (regular apples are only 12°) - "Overly sweet warning! Diabetics beware!" ✅ Crisp enough to come with its own soundtrack - "One snap, and all the dogs in the village turn their heads!" ✅ The peel can be waxed - the natural wax is so shiny it reflects light, a wonder for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder Fun Fact: Qixia apples were once served at a state banquet, and even Putin gave them a thumbs-up 👍 (true story!) 🚗 Transportation Guide 📍 Location: Qixia City, Yantai, Shandong (1.5-hour drive from Qingdao/Yantai) ✈️ Flyers: Yantai Penglai Airport → 40-minute taxi ride to the orchard 🚄 High-speed Railers: Get off at Qixia Station. Car rental recommended (the orchard is scattered throughout) 🍂 Best Time to Enjoy Apples Late September to November: Apple Festival and Apple Picking Season, with mountains covered in crimson fruits, like a beauty filter. Easter Bonus: Apples are even sweeter after frost, locals call them "sugar bombs." 💣 🎯 Must-See List 1️⃣ Apple Orchard Immersion Pick your own apples for sweeter fruit! We recommend the century-old orchard at the foot of Aishan Mountain. Secret Tip: Learn "apple bagging" from a farmer (post this on WeChat and you'll instantly become an agricultural expert). 2️⃣ Apple-themed Fun Yantai Apple Museum: See the world's largest apple sculpture (2 meters in diameter!) Apple Feast: Sweet and Sour Apple Pork, Applewood Roasted Chicken... Awkward Cuisine? It's Delicious! 3️⃣ Secret Photo Spots Changchun Lake: Lake View + Fruit Mountain = Instagram-worthy Apple Harvester Yashan: Overlooking the 10,000-acre orchard from the mountaintop—aerial photos look like a red carpet. 💡 Experienced Driver Tips ⚠️ Don't wear white clothes when picking apples! Juice splashes are impossible to wash off (don't ask me how I know). 💰 Orchard direct price: 5-8 yuan/jin (same quality at supermarkets costs over 20 yuan) 🎁 The ultimate souvenir: Vacuum-packed apples, shipped directly home via SF Express cold chain 📣 Foodie rants "The Hermès of Chinese apples, so sweet they're alarming!" "If you haven't tasted Qixia apples, you haven't tasted the soul of apples!" This autumn, let's achieve— Apple Freedom! 🍎🍎🍎 (Strategy in hand, you've got the sweetness! @your dinner buddy and go!) Interaction tips: "Do you prefer crispy apples or soft apples? Qixia apples will make you a rebel!" #HermèsofApples #RuralRuralRuralRevitalization #TravelChinawithFoodies #FirstAppleofAutumn #WhereToGoThisAutumn

"The most seductive autumn in Beijing is here~" Who says autumn can only be emo? This "Hutong Heartbeat Lab," hidden deep in Beiluoguxiang, uses a courtyard full of ginkgo trees to give love a boost! Step on the crispy fallen leaves for wall-banging photos, feed each other with hand-poured coffee, and spy on other couples from the attic... This single guy immediately wants to fall in love after visiting! 🍂 Three must-photograph sweet moments 1️⃣ "Fallen Leaf Confession Wall": Every day at 10:00 AM, it's a prime photo spot covered with fresh ginkgo leaves. The staff will help scatter the leaves to create a festive atmosphere (and even encourage you to "give me a kiss!"). 2️⃣ "Caramel Latte Kiss": The limited-edition latte art features Cupid's arrow, and the straw is intentionally only one...don't ask how I finished it. 3️⃣ "Secret Crush Telescope": Climb up to the attic to peek into the daily life in the alley across the street. When your partner suddenly hugs you from behind—your heartbeat will be so loud that the whole store can hear it! 🍁 Hidden Easter Egg ✔️ Order with the code "Blush Special" to unlock a secret drink (slightly alcoholic) ✔️ Lights dim after 6:00 PM, and each table receives a replica of a handwritten love letter from the 1980s ✔️ Every Saturday, there's a couples' chemistry challenge; the winner wins a ginkgo biloba photo frame 📸 Photo Alert ▫️ Wear beige, brown, or creamy white for a more photogenic look ▫️ The light and shadows are at their most beautiful around 3:00 PM, but expect a line at this time on weekends ▫️ Secret: There's a perfect spot for a kiss behind the bookshelf in the corner of the second floor 📍 Hutong Heartbeat Lab No. 7, Shaluo Hutong, Beiluoguxiang, Dongcheng District (near Nanluoguxiang Exit F) ⏰ Closed Wednesdays from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM 💴 Cost per person: NT$60+ (but you'll get 999% photo quality) #BeijingAutumnOutOfControlHeartbeatLive #LoveConcentrationAlert #A date peeped at by ginkgo leaves #The coffee shop equivalent of Haidilao #Beijing Siheyuan