Top 10 Most Popular Food Streets in China

Home watching the world, focusing on: street photography, sharing beautiful scenery from trips every day. Today we're going to talk about popular food streets in various cities across China. For foodies, food is the soul of a street; you don't need to visit famous attractions, but you must fill your belly. So, when you come to the following cities, don't miss these popular food streets.

Dezhou Qihe Food Street

Located in Qihe County, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, China·, it's a 30-minute drive from Jinan. This food street is a window into Shandong cuisine, particularly Lu cuisine. There are over 180 shops here, carefully selected from 137 counties in Shandong, including many specialty foods from other regions such as Xinjiang roasted naan bread, buckwheat noodles, gourd head, spicy roast meat, pig trotters, and steamed buns. The delicious dishes are highly praised and make visitors want to stay longer.

Qingdao Grilled Fish Barrel

I used to think Grilled Fish Barrel was an old courtyard in Qingdao. After visiting, I realized it's also a popular food street. Grilled Fish Barrel is a well-known food street in Qingdao, located in the Zhongshan Road commercial area, which is surrounded by Zhongshan Road, Beijiao Road, Hexi Road, and Tianjin Road. The food stalls are densely packed, offering a wide variety of Qingdao specialties. The main foods are seafood such as grilled fish, meatballs, grilled squid, oysters, crabs, sea urchin, grilled clams, crispy prawns, sea urchin jelly, clams, abalone, and salmon. There are all kinds.

Lanxu Zhengning Road

Zhengning Road Small Food Street is located at the south end of Qingyang Road between Qingyang Gate and South Gate, in Lanzhou. Every night, this two-hundred-meter-long street is bustling with activity, with crowds of people shoulder to shoulder. The stalls on both sides are closely packed, welcoming visitors from all over the world. Here you can find all kinds of Northern Chinese cuisines, including roasting meat, other regional specialties, and various cooking methods. A bottle of Yellow River beer is perfect to go with it. The most distinctive thing about Zhengning Road is eggs and milk sweet rice dumplings. The old Ma family's eggs and milk sweet rice dumplings are the most popular. They were even featured on 'China's Kitchen', which boosted the popularity of Zhengning Road food street.

Wuhan Jixiang Street

Jixiang Street is located between Dazhi Road and Jianghan Road in Wuhan's Jiang'an District, next to the Hanjiang River. It's also known as a lively street, especially at night. Many friends gather around the stalls to have a drink and chat. The most distinctive thing here is that there are many musicians waiting for their audience to perform. Jixiang Street is a place where people can enjoy themselves.

Chongqing Liberation Monument Pedestrian Street

This is a must-visit place in Chongqing, known for its beautiful women, delicious food, and many shops. You can find acid and spicy noodles, mountain city small soup dumplings, and shaomai here. When you stroll along this street, you'll meet beautiful women everywhere. Therefore, it's also a place where you can be happy in Chongqing.

Nanchang Purple Bamboo Night Market

Some say my youth is spent in the Purple Bamboo Night Market. Yes, this small food street is surrounded by many universities, so its customers are mainly students. Because of this, the night market has a different atmosphere. It's half flavor, half youth. In the bustling crowd, there's an endless stream of greetings and calls for business. Behind every greeting and call, there's a passionate love story.

Nanning Zhongshan Road Food Street

Nanning Zhongshan Road Food Street is hailed as the 'No. 1 Food Street in China'! As a transit city for travel in Guangxi, Nanning, you'll definitely want to visit Zhongshan Road to experience it. Only 100 meters long, but every night there are many people. The famous Li You, old friend, Ah Guang oily noodles, Six Uncle grilled fish, are always full. Indian flying pie is like a stage, always surrounded by people. From traditional Nanning snacks to Wuhan duck necks, Hong Kong dim sum, Southeast Asian food, everything is here, and it's incredibly delicious.

Xinjiang Changji Hui Muslim Food Street

Changji Hui Muslim Food Street is only 20 minutes' drive from Urumqi Airport. Many Urumqi people like to come here to eat on weekends. The whole street is filled with Hui Muslim food, combined with specialties from various parts of Xinjiang. A shop called Ma Cake Workshop sells all kinds of pastries and snacks, such as cat ears, old mooncakes, green bean cakes, twisted buns… All are common snacks from market stalls in childhood. Sometimes, you like a food not just for its taste, but also for the memories and stories it holds.

Urumqi Xianlai Small Town

Xianlai Small Town is a newly built food street located at the foot of Mount Wuyi in Urumqi, close to the Silk Road International Ski Resort. You can taste many characteristic Xinjiang foods here, such as Xinjiang baked goods, naan bread, broth, pepper chicken, and the shopkeepers' enthusiasm makes you want to stop and try a bite. I've been twice, and I always order Ma Pon soup and pepper chicken, and spicy chicken. Enjoying them with freshly baked naan, you can experience the local Xinjiang lifestyle. Urumqi people say that the food here is better than in the city, and I think that's credible.

Xiamen Taiwan Food Street

Located opposite Taiwan Food Street on Xiamen's ferry terminal, this street offers the most complete variety of Fujian small foods. All kinds of popular Taiwanese foods are beloved by people. It's the earliest street with stalls in Xiamen, and now it's become a Taiwan Food Street. The small alleys gather the most popular snacks from the three largest night markets in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung: Taipei's Shilin Night Market, Taichung's Fengya Night Market and Kaohsiung's Liuhe Night Market. Taiwanese foods like Taiwanese rice, 'Tiger and Pig', Taiwanese steamed buns, fried squid, and baked taro are full of curiosity and desire to try them; seafood soup, fish balls, Mooncake noodles, squid pie, pineapple cake, these snacks have their own small stories. Oyster omelet, stir-fried squid, seafood porridge, squid jelly, fish soup, and these delicious dishes will make you feel full.

Which food street do you like the most?

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