Wuhan >> Jiqing Street

Attraction Typ: Pedestrian street, Shopping Market

Location: City Centre - Central

Recommend: 5 Star

Jiqing Street

Jiqing Street is the place you will know what Wuhan is.

Jiqing Street (Chinese: 吉庆街; pinyin: Jíqìngjiē) is an ordinary-seeming street by day while becomes transformed into a bewildering maze of street-side restaurants and buskers performing music, dance, opera and stand-up comedy by night.

Jiqing Street is located in the central part of old city area in Hankou with the famous Lao Tong Cheng Restaurant at its crossing. The street is popular to the locals where they spend their leisure time in the evening.

It is very lively in the evening that popular snacks and flavored food with economy prices will supply along the road side. The spicy shrimp balls, tasty beef soups, delicious duck necks, Wenchang fish and dumplings will feed you well and make you marvel at the wonderful night life. Jiqing Street is well known by Chinese due to a novel Live Show with stories of events on this street by Chi Li, who is a popular, modern woman writer. When night falls, the local performance by folk musicians will start beside your table on request. You can choose the song and the performer you like just pay for 10 or 15 RMB. It is a nice memory to enjoy the folk performances while taste delicious foods.

People of Wuhan say that, if you want to know what Wuhan is, you must come to Jiqing Street. Therefore, don't miss it.