 Last Modified: 2006-06-27 09:22:43.0
Address: Wuhouci Dajie, next to the Wuhou Temple
( 武侯祠大街 )
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Author:Rick (Last Modified: 2006-06-27 09:22:43.0)
Right next to the Wuhou Temple is Jinli Promenade. Just walk through the large traditional gate and bring your wallet. Immediately on your left when you enter is the Sanguo Teahouse. Over 30 different kinds of tea and coffee are available and there is a wealth of cushy indoor and outdoor seating as well as private rooms. Prices are a little high at Y15-35/cup, but worth the ambience and quality of the tea.
Past the teahouse begins a long line of fancy shops selling traditional Chinese, Tibetan, and Indian clothing and jewelry. Other souvenir shops sell jade, wood crafts, engravings, paper cutting artwork
weavings, traditional Chinese paintings, and photographs. As you walk past a small goldfish pond, you will reach two parallel lines of snack vendors. Most stalls sell traditional Chengdu snacks such as ’niangao aihao’, a sticky green cake, ’boluo mi’, pineapple bases filled with rice pudding and other fruit, or ’zhuan fen’, flat noodles wrapped around vegetables prepared with a few varieties of spices. And of course what Chengdu locale would be complete without its share of ’Shao Kao’ vendors. A few vendors also sell traditional snacks from Hong Kong, including a salty soup of fish and meatballs with steamed vegetables.
At the end of the promenade a few artists draw caricatures right on the spot. You might be surprised to see an American, Kid Cardona, with a shop of his own there as well. He charges only Y30 for a caricature, and will gleefully chat up any English speaker. Crowds usually form around him as he draws, possibly because he is a foreigner, but probably because he is more talented than the other Chinese artists there.
There are a few restaurants in Jinli Promenade as well, but they are expensive and are likely no better than restaurants outside the promenade. In fact, if you turn right out of the promenade and walk past Wuhou Temple, there are a few very popular hotpot restaurants.
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