The entertainment on offer in Taiyuan is not up to the cosmopolitan pizzazz of cities like Beijing and Shanghai, but there should be something to keep most visitors busy. A visit to the Liuxiang Shopping District is high on the list of most trips to the city, where traditional goods such as delicate paper cuttings, pretty Jade jewelry and carvings, buffed lacquer goods including the perennial favorite, lacquer jewelry boxes and modeled dough can be found in abundance. The Friendship Store on Yingze Dajie or the Arts and Crafts Store on Yingze Dajie are other popular places to buy these local goods.

The nightlife in Taiyuan is similar to that in many Chinese cities. The city has a few theaters and opera houses, where Jin Opera can be enjoyed at the Shanxi Jin Opera Troupe Theater or Shanxi Drumming, which has an extensive history going back to the Yao and Shun dynasties, before 2071 BC.

The city's bars and clubs serve up both western and local drinks, including the famous Yingze Beer, various Chinese wines and the famous (or infamous) baijiu (literally "white alcohol") which comes in a variety of grades, the cheapest of which can prove lethal to inexperienced drinkers! Not only do the bars serve drinks, but the city's many KTV bars do too, enabling visitors to sing and drink the night away.

The food in Taiyuan is influenced heavily by the city's Han and Mongol population: menus feature mutton soup, steamed dumplings, noodles and many other hearty foods. The city is also famous for its Wheat Festival, held every September, when chefs compete to tantalize the taste-buds of visitors and locals alike. Of course this is not the city's only festival: a fledgling Wine Beverage Exhibition & Wine Culture Festival has been recently inaugurated, celebrating local production and produce, and the International Folk Art Festival which is held in September is a wonderful time to experience the traditional performance arts of many ethnic groups who live within the city.

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