Pandas at dawn, factory by dusk
6 stops · 6 h · metro L3 + L8 · 6 stops
- Panda Base (7:30am)
- Sun Nursery
- Panda Discovery Center
- Natural History Museum
- Dongjiao Memory
- Dinner at the 1957 canteen
146 places · MICHELIN Chengdu 2027, Black Pearl, Dianping · no Eater coverage · 5 routes
Tap a route and it gets drawn on the map, stop by stop.
Tap a pin to see photos, rating and how to get there by metro, Tianfu Tong card, DiDi or a shared bike. Turn on a route to follow the numbered path.
This interactive map of Chengdu (China) brings together 146 hand-picked places: 43 attractions, 52 restaurants, 27 cafés and 24 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
· Curated by the HOLASIM team · How we make the maps
Tap a route to see it drawn on the map, stop by stop.
6 stops · 6 h · metro L3 + L8 · 6 stops
7 stops · 5 h · walking + metro L3/L4 · 7 stops
7 stops · 5 h · walking + metro L1/L2/L3 · 7 stops
6 stops · 6 h · metro L4 + L7 · 6 stops
6 stops · 5 h · evening · metro L3/L4 · 6 stops
Panda Base · Chenghua
Chengdu's number-one sight: 200+ giant pandas across 3 km² of bamboo. At 7:30am they eat breakfast and actually move.
Tip: Book online the night before and arrive at 7:30am — by 10 every panda is asleep.
🚇 Metro L3 熊猫大道 Panda Avenue + Panda Express 1 shuttle
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Show on mapPanda Scientific Discovery Center
The Panda Base's new museum: genetics, breeding and real skeletons. The perfect bolt-hole when the afternoon drizzle starts.
Tip: It is already included in your Panda Base ticket, so do not pay for it twice.
🚇 Inside the Panda Base · internal shuttle stop
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Show on mapPanda Tower · Panda Base
The lookout tower over the Panda Base lake. From the top you see the whole bamboo forest and, with luck, October's clear sky.
Tip: Climb it at the end of your loop — mid-morning light on the bamboo is the best shot.
🚇 Inside the Panda Base · swan lake area
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Show on mapSun Nursery · Panda Base
The yard where the sub-adult pandas wrestle over bamboo and tumble off logs. The most-watched free show in China.
Tip: It's the first stop on the loop and the busiest. Save it for the way back and you'll have it nearly alone.
🚇 Inside the Panda Base · first stop after the gate
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Show on mapRed Pandas · Panda Base
The red pandas roam the paths and walk right past you. Far livelier than their black-and-white cousins.
Tip: Don't touch or feed them — rangers fine you and escort you out.
🚇 Inside the Panda Base · forest trail
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Show on mapWuhou · 武侯祠 Wuhou
The shrine to Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei: China's most revered Three Kingdoms temple, among 400-year-old cypresses and red walls.
Tip: The red-wall-and-bamboo corridor (红墙竹影) is behind the temple — it's THE Chengdu photo.
🚇 Metro L3 高升桥 Gaoshengqiao · 11 min walk
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Show on mapJinli · Wuhou
The rebuilt old street beside Wuhou Shrine: red lanterns, sanda pao stalls and opera masks. Kitsch, yes, but ridiculously photogenic.
Tip: Come after 7pm: with the lanterns lit it transforms, and the tour groups are gone.
🚇 Metro L3 高升桥 Gaoshengqiao · 12 min walk
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Show on mapKuanzhai · Qingyang
Three restored Qing lanes — Kuan, Zhai and Jing — with courtyards, teahouses and hidden bars. The tourist heart of the old city.
Tip: Jing lane (井巷子) is the least touristy: a historic brick wall and actual local bars.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 5 min walk
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Show on mapPeople's Park · Qingyang
The park where Chengdu proves its reputation: mahjong, dancing grannies, rowboats on the lake and unhurried tea since 1911.
Tip: Free entry. In October the ginkgos round the lake turn yellow — the best moment of the year.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 4 min walk
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Show on mapMarriage Market · People's Park
Parents hanging their children's marriage CVs from open umbrellas: age, height, salary, zodiac sign. Pure anthropology, free.
Tip: It runs Saturday and Sunday mornings. Look, but don't shoot close-ups of faces.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 2 min walk
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Show on mapDu Fu Thatched Cottage · Qingyang
Poet Du Fu's bamboo cottage, where he wrote 240 poems while fleeing war. Today it's a garden of plum trees and streams.
Tip: Grab the English audioguide at the east gate — without context it's just a pretty garden.
🚇 Metro L4 草堂北路 Caotang Beilu · 13 min walk
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Show on mapQingyang Palace · Qingyang
Chengdu's oldest Taoist temple, with the Eight Trigrams Pavilion and the two bronze goats people rub for good health.
Tip: The teahouse at the back is run by the monks and costs half what the touristy ones do.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 8 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · Qingyang
The city's most beautiful working Buddhist monastery: incense, chanting monks, a lotus garden and a legendary teahouse.
Tip: Free entry. Eat at the monastery's vegetarian canteen — 25 yuan and genuinely excellent.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 8 min walk
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Show on mapJinsha · Qingyang
The 3,000-year-old site uncovered by builders in 2001. Home of the Golden Sun Bird, Chengdu's official emblem.
Tip: The Relics Hall is the star room — save it for last and keep some battery.
🚇 Metro L7 金沙博物馆 Jinsha Museum · 6 min walk
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Show on mapSichuan Museum · Qingyang
Southwest China's largest provincial museum: Ba-Shu bronzes, Zhang Daqian paintings and the Han tomb bricks that show daily life.
Tip: Free with your passport, but you must book online the day before. Closed Mondays.
🚇 Metro L2/L4 中医大·省医院 TCM Univ. · Provincial Hospital · 12 min walk
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Show on mapChengdu Museum · Tianfu Square
The bronze cube on Tianfu Square: 2,300 years of city across five floors, plus the world's best shadow-puppet collection.
Tip: Free with your passport. The shadow-puppet floor is the one nobody expects and everybody remembers.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 4 min walk
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Show on mapTianfu Square · Qingyang
Chengdu's kilometre zero: the Southwest's biggest square, with fountains, the Jinsha sun bird inlaid in the ground and Mao pointing at the horizon.
Tip: The musical fountains start at dusk. In October the sky is cleaner and the shot actually comes out blue.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 2 min walk
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Show on mapMao Statue · Tianfu Square
One of the very few monumental Maos still standing in China, arm outstretched over the square since 1969.
Tip: It stands in front of the Science & Technology Museum. Floodlit at night it's a completely different photo.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 2 min walk
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Show on mapSichuan Science & Tech Museum
The building behind Mao: five floors of hands-on science, robots and a planetarium. The perfect rainy-day plan with kids.
Tip: Free entry if you book online. Closed Mondays and packed at weekends.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 4 min walk
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Show on mapShufeng Yayun · Culture Park
The Sichuan opera house for 变脸, face-changing: masks that switch in a tenth of a second and nobody knows how.
Tip: Book a seat in the first three rows: they include tea, snacks and an ear-cleaning during the show.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 4 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang Theatre · Chunxi
The historic 1908 Sichuan opera theatre where the professional companies still rehearse. Far less touristy than Shufeng Yayun.
Tip: Check the board at the door: Sunday afternoon shows are for locals and cost pennies.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 5 min walk
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Show on mapAnshun Bridge · Jinjiang
The covered bridge Marco Polo described, now floodlit end to end over the Jin River. Chengdu's night postcard.
Tip: The best view isn't from the bridge but from the south bank, 100 m downstream.
🚇 Metro L2 东门大桥 Dongmen Daqiao · 10 min walk
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Show on mapJiuyanqiao · Jinjiang
The nine-arch bridge and the epicentre of Chengdu's nightlife: riverside bars, live music and crowds until 4am.
Tip: The Lan Kwai Fong strip on the north bank is the priciest. The good bars are east of the bridge.
🚇 Metro L6 顺江路 Shunjiang Road · 9 min walk
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Show on mapDongmen Wharf · Jinjiang
The pier for 夜游锦江, the Jin River night cruise: 40 minutes of lit bridges, projections and riverside markets.
Tip: Boats run from 7:30pm and sell out — grab the ticket on WeChat that same morning.
🚇 Metro L2 东门大桥 Dongmen Daqiao · 3 min walk
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Show on mapDongjiao Memory · Chenghua
A 1950s Soviet-style electronics plant turned into the city's creative district: murals, gigs, studios and bars.
Tip: Free to enter. The chimneys and train tracks are Chengdu's most-used photo set on Xiaohongshu.
🚇 Metro L8 东郊记忆 Dongjiao Memory · 7 min walk
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Show on mapYongling · Jinniu
The only Chinese imperial tomb built above ground: Wang Jian of the Shu kingdom, ringed by 24 carved 10th-century musicians.
Tip: The 24 carved musicians are the only complete portrait of a Tang orchestra that survives. Find the relief at the back.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 16 min walk
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Show on mapWangjianglou · Wuhou
Poet Xue Tao's park, with 150 species of bamboo and a red four-storey tower over the river. In autumn the ginkgos turn it gold.
Tip: Late October is when the park's ginkgos go yellow. The outer garden is free to enter.
🚇 Metro L6 三官堂 Sanguantang · 4 min walk
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Show on mapHuanhuaxi · Qingyang
Chengdu's prettiest and least touristy park: wetlands, poetry carved into stone paths and actual herons, right beside Du Fu's cottage.
Tip: Free and open late. Pair it with Du Fu's cottage — they're next door.
🚇 Metro L4 草堂北路 Caotang Beilu · 17 min walk
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Show on mapCulture Park · Qingyang
The park attached to Qingyang Palace, famous for its spring flower fair and for being where locals drink tea in silence.
Tip: Tea tables from 15 yuan: the cheap, camera-free version of Heming.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 7 min walk
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Show on mapDaci Temple · Taikoo Li
A 1,600-year-old Tang monastery wedged among Taikoo Li's luxury stores. The most photographed contrast in China.
Tip: The courtyard teahouse sells jasmine tea for 20 yuan surrounded by Gucci. Drink it there.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapWest Pearl Tower · 339
The 339 m tower with a revolving observation deck: at night it lights up and projects giant pandas across its face.
Tip: The best view of the tower isn't from the top but from the river at Wangping Street, with the terraces in frame.
🚇 Metro L6 新鸿路 Xinhong Road · 10 min walk
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Show on mapZhaojue Temple · Chenghua
Sichuan's largest Buddhist monastery, founded in 627 and known as 'the first Zen hall of the west'. Huge, active and almost tourist-free.
Tip: It backs onto the zoo — do both in one morning. Entry is almost symbolic.
🚇 Metro L3 动物园 Zoo · 8 min walk
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Show on mapChengdu Zoo · Chenghua
The city's historic zoo, with its own group of giant pandas and entry at a fraction of the Panda Base price.
Tip: If the Panda Base is mobbed on a holiday, here you see pandas with no queue for 20 yuan.
🚇 Metro L3 动物园 Zoo · 7 min walk
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Show on mapNatural History Museum · Chenghua
Chengdu's most spectacular building, opened in 2022: six stone blocks shaped like mountains. Inside, real Sichuanese dinosaurs.
Tip: Book online: entry is free but the daily quota sells out 48 h ahead.
🚇 Metro L8 十里店 Shilidian · 2 min walk
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Show on mapHuangcheng Mosque · Qingyang
The historic mosque 200 m from Tianfu Square, Chinese courtyard architecture with the city's best Hui quarter around it.
Tip: The surrounding streets have Chengdu's best lamb skewers and naan bread.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 5 min walk
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Show on mapSichuan University · Wangjiang
The historic 1896 campus, red-brick buildings and the ginkgo avenue that turns into a yellow tunnel by late October.
Tip: Enter with your passport at the east gate. The ginkgo avenue runs beside the Administration building.
🚇 Metro L6 顺江路 Shunjiang Road · 13 min walk
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Show on mapLiving Water Park · Jinjiang
The world's first park designed as a living water-treatment plant, shaped like a fish on the Jin River. UN-awarded in 1998.
Tip: It's the best stretch to walk the Jin riverbank from Wangping Street to the 339 tower.
🚇 Metro L3 红星桥 Hongxing Bridge · 7 min walk
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Show on mapShu Brocade & Embroidery Museum · Qingyang
Three-metre wooden looms where four people hand-weave Shu brocade, a 2,000-year-old intangible heritage craft.
Tip: The loom demonstration runs at 10am and 3pm. Turn up outside those and you'll only see cabinets.
🚇 Metro L2/L4 中医大·省医院 TCM Univ. · Provincial Hospital · 14 min walk
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Show on mapHuaxiba · Wuhou
The 1910 missionary-founded medical campus: Chinese-roofed, Western-framed pavilions with huge ginkgos in the courtyards.
Tip: By late October the ginkgos at the Zhong Lou clock tower are the locals' autumn photo spot.
🚇 Metro L1 华西坝 Huaxiba · 8 min walk
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Show on mapOpen Air Music Park · Jinniu
Asia's largest open-air amphitheatre, with a 180 m silver acoustic shell. Chengdu's big festivals play here.
Tip: Outside gig nights the park is free and empty — the acoustic shell is a stunning sunset shot.
🚇 Metro L1 韦家碾 Weijianian · 16 min walk
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Show on mapJiaozi Park · Financial City
The financial district's park: huge lawn, glass towers all around and Jiaozi Avenue's giant curved screen behind it.
Tip: The tower light show starts at 8pm sharp: grab a spot on the west lawn first.
🚇 Metro L1 孵化园 Incubation Park + 5 min by taxi or DiDi
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Show on mapGuixi Eco Park · Gaoxin
40 hectares of meadow and woodland in the middle of the new district, glass skyline peeking over the trees.
Tip: Locals come to camp with a tent and a flask of tea. In October it's the city's best Sunday plan.
🚇 Metro L1 锦城广场 Jincheng Square · 9 min walk
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Show on mapZaozi Alley · Jinniu
A traditional-Chinese-medicine lane restored with timber facades: herbal pharmacies, pulse readings and neighbourhood teahouses.
Tip: It's the free, local alternative to Kuanzhai: same look, zero tourists, 15 minutes' walk away.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 6 min walk
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Show on mapChangfa St · 2 MICHELIN Stars
Twelve covers per sitting and chef Lan Guijun, 40 years refining Sichuanese cooking. Two MICHELIN stars, retained for 2027.
Tip: Bookings open months out and vanish in hours. If Chengdu is on your list, reserve before you buy the flight.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 10 min walk
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Show on mapGaoxin · 3 MICHELIN Stars
Chengdu's first three MICHELIN stars (September 2026). Taizhou cuisine built on Sichuanese produce: day-boat fish and shellfish.
Tip: There's a 398-yuan lunch set, far below dinner prices. It's the sane way in.
🚇 Metro L1 金融城 Financial City · 2 min walk
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Show on mapGuanghua Village · 1 MICHELIN Star
A garden restaurant with one MICHELIN star and neighbourhood prices: you eat very well for under 200 yuan a head.
Tip: You take a number and the queue is long: arrive before 11:30am or before 5:30pm.
🚇 Metro L7 东坡路 Dongpo Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMajiahuayuan · 1 MICHELIN Star
Refined Sichuanese cooking in Jinniu, one MICHELIN star retained for 2027. Banquet classics executed with fine-dining technique.
Tip: Order the bang bang chicken and the steamed fish — they're why the guide keeps it.
🚇 Metro L6 西北桥 Xibeiqiao · 7 min walk
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Show on mapThe Temple House · 1★ + Green Star
Vegetarian, one MICHELIN star and a Green Star for sustainability. Inside The Temple House hotel, right beside Daci Temple.
Tip: The six-course lunch menu is the best value on Chengdu's starred list.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · neighbourhood legend
Chengdu's most famous family restaurant: four tables, an open kitchen and the garlic pork belly that made its owner a celebrity.
Tip: Phone-book days ahead and order your menu in advance. Without a booking you don't get in.
🚇 Metro L3 红星桥 Hongxing Bridge · 5 min walk
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Show on mapDonghuamen St · since 1862
The house that invented mapo tofu in 1862. Still the dish everyone comes for: curd trembling in chilli oil and Sichuan pepper.
Tip: The 青华路 branch is the one in MICHELIN 2027's Bib Gourmand: same recipe, shorter queue.
🚇 Metro L1/L4 骡马市 Luomashi · 6 min walk
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Show on mapJinniu · Bib Gourmand
A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand for its tomato-beef soup and rice-flour steamed beef. Dishes at 30-50 yuan.
Tip: The 48-yuan tomato-beef soup is the one dish you must order.
🚇 Metro L7 金沙博物馆 Jinsha Museum · 7 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · historic house
Chengdu's wonton house since 1941: paper-thin wrappers, pork filling and either white broth or red oil. Order the snack combo and taste ten things.
Tip: Ground floor for fast and cheap; upstairs is the tourist set menu at triple the price.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 2 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · since 1893
Pork dumplings drowned in sweet soy, crushed garlic and chilli oil. No vinegar — that's been the house signature since 1893.
Tip: A portion is ten dumplings for 15 yuan — the most Chengdu breakfast there is.
🚇 Metro L6 建设北路 Jianshe North Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · the dish that defines Sichuan
Sliced beef and offal in chilli oil, crushed peanut and Sichuan pepper. China's most famous cold starter.
Tip: The name means 'husband-and-wife lung slices' and contains no lung — a 1930s joke that stuck.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapQingyang · hotpot with a show
Wuxia-themed hotpot: swordsman waiters, noodle-flinging shows and the most Instagrammed red broth in Chengdu.
Tip: Order the yuanyang split broth your first time — Chengdu's full red will flatten you.
🚇 Metro L1/L4 骡马市 Luomashi · 3 min walk
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Show on mapWuhou · classic hotpot
One of the city's most veteran hotpot houses: beef-tallow broth, crunchy tripe and zero tourist decor.
Tip: Order 毛肚 tripe and count seven seconds in the broth — not one more. That's the local rule.
🚇 Metro L7 神仙树 Shenxianshu · 8 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · the chain that exported hotpot
The brand that took Sichuan hotpot worldwide, born here in 2014. Intense broth, fast service, picture menu.
Tip: It's the safe bet if you don't speak Chinese: English menu and picture screens.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 4 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · riverside hotpot
Hotpot with an open courtyard and tables beside the Jin. Tallow broth and the duck intestine locals order first.
Tip: In October the courtyard tables are the best seat in Chengdu: 20 °C at 9pm.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapKuanzhai · frog hotpot
The house of 冷锅鱼 and spicy frog: the broth arrives already boiling with the protein inside. A Chengdu classic since the 90s.
Tip: Ask for 微辣 (mild) your first time — in Chengdu, 'mild' is already a lot.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMengzhuiwan · cult chuanchuan
Chengdu's most famous chuanchuan xiang: pick skewers from a fridge, boil them in red broth, pay by counting sticks.
Tip: The queue starts at 5:30pm and hits two hours. Take a number and go for a drink on Wangping Street.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 8 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · neighbourhood chuanchuan
The Chengdu chuanchuan chain every local knows: 1-yuan skewers, honest broth and plastic tables.
Tip: Keep your sticks: you pay per stick at the end, usually under 60 yuan a head.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 13 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · modern chuanchuan
Design-led chuanchuan: same skewers-and-red-broth system but in a clean, air-conditioned room with a translated menu.
Tip: It's the ideal gateway to chuanchuan if you're visiting: same ritual, zero friction.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 5 min walk
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Show on mapJinniu · the service hotpot
The chain that turned hotpot into a service spectacle: free manicures while you wait, noodles danced at your table and bottomless tea.
Tip: Ask for the 拉面 noodle-pulling show even if you won't eat them — it's free and worth it.
🚇 Metro L6 星河 Xinghe · 2 min walk
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Show on mapYihuanlu · locals' hotpot
Hotpot with no tourist concessions: a loud room, thick tallow broth and the best spice-per-yuan on the first ring road.
Tip: Bring cash or WeChat Pay — plenty of neighbourhood places don't take foreign cards.
🚇 Metro L3/L6 前锋路 Qianfeng Road · 2 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · mansion hotpot
Hotpot in a traditional courtyard with lanterns and carved wood. Textbook Sichuanese broth and the most photogenic room in the category.
Tip: Book a courtyard table — the indoor room is ordinary and loses the whole point.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 13 min walk
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Show on mapGaoshengqiao · Thai hotpot
The hotpot that broke the mould: Thai coconut-milk and tom yum broths, seafood and a pink interior that lives on Xiaohongshu.
Tip: It's the emergency exit when you can't take more heat: same ritual, zero chilli.
🚇 Metro L3 红牌楼 Hongpailou · 8 min walk
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Show on mapRenmin Park · pork trotter soup
Pork trotter braised to collapse in a milky bean broth, chilli dip on the side. The local hangover cure.
Tip: Open into the small hours — it's what you eat leaving the Jiuyanqiao bars.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 7 min walk
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Show on mapQingyang · sweet-potato noodles
Glassy sweet-potato noodles in chilli broth with pork intestine and a crisp 锅盔 flatbread to dunk. 15 yuan of happiness.
Tip: If the offal scares you, ask for 不要肥肠 (no intestine) — the broth and noodles still deliver.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 4 min walk
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Show on mapHuaxi · dandan & tianshui noodles
The place to taste Chengdu's two defining noodles in one go: dry, spicy dandan and thick, sweet tianshui with sesame paste.
Tip: Stir the dandan twenty times before the first bite — the sauce is all at the bottom.
🚇 Metro L1 华西坝 Huaxiba · 9 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · sweet-water noodles
甜水面 noodles as thick as a pencil in sweet soy, garlic and chilli. Chewy, sweet and hot all at once: strange and addictive.
Tip: Order a half portion — they're dense and a full one cancels the rest of lunch.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 7 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · liangfen since 1930
Cold pea-starch jelly cut into ribbons, drowned in chilli oil and sweet soy. The summer snack Chengdu eats all year.
Tip: Also order the 伤心凉粉 'heartbroken' version — named because it's so hot you cry.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 7 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · rabbit head
The speciality that defines Chengdu: marinated spicy rabbit heads eaten with your hands. A third of China's rabbit is eaten here.
Tip: Start at the jaw. Ask for the plastic gloves — they have them and you'll need them.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 5 min walk
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Show on mapQingyang · 'strange flavour' noodles
怪味面, 'strange-flavour noodles': sweet, salty, sour, hot and numbing at once. Proof that Sichuan isn't only about heat.
Tip: Open only until 2pm — it's a breakfast and early-lunch place, nothing more.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 3 min walk
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Show on mapJianshe Rd · historic dandan
Dandan mian the old way: little sauce, plenty of crisp minced pork and a dry hit of Sichuan pepper at the end.
Tip: It's on Jianshe Road: chain a dandan, a 冰粉 and a skewer within 200 metres.
🚇 Metro L6 新鸿路 Xinhong Road · 5 min walk
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Show on mapQingyang · wood-fired roast duck
Lacquered duck from an open wood-fired oven, carved in front of you. A permanently full room with the crispest skin in town.
Tip: Book it on WeChat: walk-ins here wait over an hour, every single day of the week.
🚇 Metro L4 西南财大 SWUFE · 13 min walk
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Show on mapGaoshengqiao · smoked duck
Tea-and-camphor smoked duck, Sichuan's most delicate recipe. Sold by weight and eaten cold, on the street.
Tip: Buy a vacuum-packed half duck — it survives the trip and is Chengdu's best edible souvenir.
🚇 Metro L3 高升桥 Gaoshengqiao · 12 min walk
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Show on mapJinniu · Leshan beef broth
跷脚牛肉, Leshan's herbal beef broth with a chilli dip. Clean, gentle and the perfect antidote to hotpot.
Tip: Dip every piece in the 干碟 dry chilli powder — without it you get half the dish.
🚇 Metro L6 沙湾 Shawan · 12 min walk
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Show on mapSantongqiao · Sichuan cold chicken
白宰鸡: poached, chilled chicken bathed in garlicky red oil. Sichuan's simplest recipe and the hardest to nail.
Tip: Order a half chicken and a bowl of rice — nothing else needed, about 40 yuan.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 13 min walk
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Show on mapTianfu Square · beef noodle soup
Beef noodle soup with eight-hour braised shin, clear broth and a touch of Sichuan pepper. Half downtown's office breakfast.
Tip: Opens at 6:30am and the good broth is gone by 9. It's an early-riser place.
🚇 Metro L1/L2 天府广场 Tianfu Square · 5 min walk
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Show on mapKuanzhai · danhonggao pancakes
蛋烘糕: mini egg pancakes cooked in copper moulds and filled to order with cream, spicy pork or sesame. Every Chengdu childhood's snack.
Tip: Get one sweet and one savoury: 4 yuan each and you eat them walking.
🚇 Metro L2/L4 中医大·省医院 TCM Univ. · Provincial Hospital · 6 min walk
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Show on mapKuanzhai · all the snacks
A courtyard with twelve classic Chengdu snack stalls in one place: sanda pao, bingfen, laozao and dandan without leaving your table.
Tip: You pay with a prepaid card at the door. Touristy, but the fastest way to taste ten things.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 4 min walk
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Show on mapKuixinglou · the eating street
Where young Chengdu eats: 300 metres of chuanchuan, cocktail bars, izakayas and twenty-something queues, two blocks from Kuanzhai.
Tip: Start at 7pm from the west end and graze your way along: no bookings, no plan.
🚇 Metro L4 宽窄巷子 Kuanzhai Alley · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMengzhuiwan · food alley
A 200-metre pedestrian alley with thirty restaurants shoulder to shoulder: Sichuanese, Thai, Japanese and Korean at local prices.
Tip: Combine it with the Wangping Street terraces: 300 metres away with a better river view.
🚇 Metro L2 东门大桥 Dongmen Daqiao · 9 min walk
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Show on mapMengzhuiwan · river terraces
The rehabilitated Jin riverbank: terraces, cafés and bars facing the water with the lit 339 tower behind. The city's modern postcard.
Tip: In October you can eat outside without a jacket until midnight — the year's best month for this street.
🚇 Metro L4/L6 玉双路 Yushuang Road · 10 min walk
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Show on mapYulin · the song's neighbourhood
The neighbourhood a pop song made famous across China: small bars, street grills, bookshops and Chengdu's most authentic nightlife.
Tip: The song is Zhao Lei's 'Chengdu' and it names this street. There's a sign and everyone photographs it.
🚇 Metro L8 芳草街 Fangcaojie · 7 min walk
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Show on mapJianshe Rd · night snacks
Chengdu's night-snack street: 500 metres of skewer stalls, 冰粉, fried chicken and pancakes, packed until 2am.
Tip: Bring small notes with you: plenty of the stalls here cannot take foreign cards.
🚇 Metro L6 建设北路 Jianshe North Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · rebuilt market street
A recreation of 1980s Chengdu: bamboo-chair teahouses, food stalls and barbershops, all in one huge courtyard.
Tip: Free entry. It's Kuanzhai without the foreign tourists, and the prices show it.
🚇 Metro L7 狮子山 Shizishan · 3 min walk
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Show on mapDongmen Shijing · design hotpot
Hotpot with tablecloths, a nine-chamber broth pot and restaurant plating. The elegant version of the Sichuanese ritual.
Tip: The nine-chamber pot lets you taste nine broths at once — order it for a group.
🚇 Metro L7 狮子山 Shizishan · 2 min walk
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Show on mapDongjiao Memory · Soviet canteen
A restaurant built inside the original 1957 workers' canteen, with mosaics, metal trays and period Sichuanese recipes.
Tip: Order the 回锅肉 twice-cooked pork — the definitive Sichuanese canteen dish.
🚇 Metro L8 东郊记忆 Dongjiao Memory · 9 min walk
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Show on mapDongjiao Memory · tea-and-food courtyard
A bamboo-table courtyard inside the creative district: jasmine tea, Sichuanese snacks and small gigs at dusk.
Tip: The courtyard tables fill at dusk — arrive before 6pm for an outdoor seat.
🚇 Metro L8 东郊记忆 Dongjiao Memory · 7 min walk
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Show on mapSCU · maokaoya duck
冒烤鸭: roast duck chopped and plunged into spicy broth. A recent Sichuanese invention that went viral across China.
Tip: It's Chengdu's 2026 dish of the moment, eaten mostly around the university.
🚇 Metro L8 川大望江校区 SCU Wangjiang Campus · 2 min walk
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Show on mapXibeiqiao · intestine noodles
Sweet-potato noodles with 冒节子, the knotted pork intestines Chengdu obsesses over. Tiled walls, stools and a 7am queue.
Tip: Ask for 加锅盔 (add flatbread): tear it and dunk it in the broth. That's how everyone eats it here.
🚇 Metro L6 西北桥 Xibeiqiao · 7 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · chef-led Sichuanese
Revived 民间 rural Sichuanese cooking: near-lost country recipes made with market produce and served in a small courtyard.
Tip: The menu changes with the season and isn't translated — ask for recommendations and trust them.
🚇 Metro L4 太升南路 Taisheng South Road · 11 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · modern Sichuanese
Contemporary Sichuanese with a designed dining room beside Taikoo Li: classic dishes plated with modern technique and a wine list.
Tip: The middle ground between starred and chuanchuan: 150-250 yuan a head and easy to book.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · liangfen in the mall
The historic liangfen brand with a shop right in Taikoo Li: the easiest way to taste the classic without leaving the shopping district.
Tip: Order the three-liangfen combo: yellow, white and 'heartbroken'. 20 yuan.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapHeming · People's Park · since 1923
THE image of Chengdu: bamboo chairs under the trees, a jasmine gaiwan refilled forever and the ear-cleaner working the tables.
Tip: Tea is 20-30 yuan and buys you the whole day. The ear-cleaning (采耳) is extra, around 60.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 4 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · monastery tea garden
The Wenshu monastery tea courtyard: bamboo tables among the pines, 15-yuan jasmine tea and chanting in the background.
Tip: It's the cheapest, calmest teahouse downtown and the least discovered by tourists.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 8 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · neighbourhood old teahouse
A genuinely old teahouse: thermoses of boiling water, mahjong, retirees and zero Instagram-oriented decor.
Tip: Sit down, order 茉莉花茶 and let them refill. Nobody will rush you for three hours.
🚇 Metro L4 太升南路 Taisheng South Road · 10 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · riverside tea
A teahouse with a terrace over the Jin River by the Living Water Park. Bamboo chairs, bottomless tea and herons flying past.
Tip: In October it's the best spot to spend an afternoon outdoors without sweating or shivering.
🚇 Metro L3 红星桥 Hongxing Bridge · 7 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · tea over the Jin
A riverside tea terrace 300 metres from Taikoo Li and the night-cruise pier. The pause before you board.
Tip: Take a table on the water side and order 竹叶青, Sichuan's emblematic green tea.
🚇 Metro L2 东门大桥 Dongmen Daqiao · 3 min walk
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Show on mapPeople's Park · tea in the shade
People's Park's other teahouse, a hundred metres from Heming with half the crowd. Same ritual, same price, no queue.
Tip: If Heming is overwhelmed on a Sunday, walk a hundred metres and sit here.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 3 min walk
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Show on mapCulture Park · tea among bamboo
A teahouse inside Culture Park next to Qingyang Palace: bamboo tables under the trees and not a foreign tourist in sight.
Tip: Pair it with Qingyang Palace: walk out of the temple and sit down for tea twenty metres later.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 5 min walk
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Show on mapCulture Park · tea & mahjong
The teahouse where the mahjong never stops: four hours for 20 yuan, endless hot water and the clack of tiles behind everything.
Tip: Ask before photographing the tables — people come here to play, not to pose.
🚇 Metro L2 通惠门 Tonghuimen · 6 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · zen tea
A contemporary tea room beside Daci Temple: full gaiwan ceremony, Mengding tea and total silence in the middle of Taikoo Li.
Tip: Ask for Mengding tea (蒙顶甘露): Sichuan's historic green, barely sold outside the province.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · Chinese specialty
The specialty chain that changed Chinese coffee: serious espresso for 15 yuan, two-metre bars and an office-worker queue.
Tip: Bring your own cup and they take 5 yuan off — house policy across China.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 5 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · own roast
A micro-roaster with the lab on show, single-origin pour-overs and a bar where the barista walks you through the bean. Real specialty.
Tip: Order a Yunnan pour-over — China grows coffee and here they explain it properly.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · chef-led coffee
A small café obsessed with extraction: scales, timer and a short menu that changes weekly.
Tip: Open 8am to 6pm: this is strictly a daytime coffee stop, never a night-time one.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 9 min walk
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Show on mapQinglong St · coffee & vinyl
A café with a vinyl wall and a serious hi-fi: slow pour-overs, jazz at proper volume and people reading for hours.
Tip: The best place in town to work on a laptop: plugs, wifi and nobody moves you on.
🚇 Metro L2 东门大桥 Dongmen Daqiao · 7 min walk
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Show on mapBaisenlin · design café
A café in the Baisenlin creative quarter: concrete, plants, pour-overs and a lot of Chengdu's design crowd.
Tip: The surrounding blocks are full of studios and design shops — worth the walk.
🚇 Metro L4 西南财大 SWUFE · 7 min walk
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Show on mapKuanzhai · minimalist café
A bare white café three minutes from Kuanzhai: the antithesis of the tourist lane, with pour-overs and sourdough.
Tip: The perfect escape when Kuanzhai becomes unbearable on a Saturday.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 3 min walk
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Show on mapDongchenggen · courtyard café
A café hidden in an old building's courtyard, with outdoor tables under a tree. One of those places you only find if someone tells you.
Tip: In October the courtyard tables are the best seat in town at five in the afternoon.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 5 min walk
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Show on mapGaoshengqiao · neighbourhood espresso
A small espresso bar near Wuhou: local roast, fair price and neighbours drinking standing up.
Tip: A must-stop before or after Wuhou and Jinli — it's the only decent coffee in the area.
🚇 Metro L3 高升桥 Gaoshengqiao · 5 min walk
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Show on mapTongzilin · young-scene café
A Yulin café with a street terrace and records. Meeting point for the creative scene in southern Chengdu.
Tip: Open late and serves beer — a café by day and a bar by night in the same room.
🚇 Metro L1 桐梓林 Tongzilin · 6 min walk
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Show on mapYulin · café & library
A café-library with wall-to-wall shelves in English and Chinese: Western breakfast, talks and Chengdu's expat meeting point.
Tip: Where to find a decent Western breakfast if the 肥肠粉 defeated you.
🚇 Metro L1/L8 倪家桥 Nijiaqiao · 4 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · café & brewery
Café by day, craft brewery by night, two steps from the Jin riverbank. Own roast and six rotating taps.
Tip: The Sichuan-pepper IPA is odd and good — the most Chengdu beer you'll taste.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 10 min walk
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Show on mapNiushikou · neighbourhood café
A neighbourhood café in Niushikou with pavement tables, toast and pour-overs. No tourism: pure residential Chengdu.
Tip: The ideal stop if you're walking east from Chunxi to Dongmen Shijing.
🚇 Metro L6 顺江路 Shunjiang Road · 9 min walk
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Show on mapBaiqiang Park · craft bakery
A bakery-laboratory beside the park: sourdough, 72-hour croissants and filter coffee. The best bake in the east of the city.
Tip: They bake at 10am and 4pm — everything comes out hot then and sells out within the hour.
🚇 Metro L8 净居寺 Jingjusi · 9 min walk
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Show on mapDongguang · neighbourhood patisserie
A small patisserie with seasonal tarts and coffee. In October they bake the persimmon and chestnut ones: very Chinese autumn.
Tip: Seasonal tarts only come out at weekends — check the shop's WeChat.
🚇 Metro L2 塔子山公园 Tazishan Park · 2 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · old-school café
An old-fashioned café of the kind Chengdu had long before specialty: armchairs, curtains and milky coffee in a big cup.
Tip: Worth it for contrast: after the specialty of Taikoo Li, this is another century.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 9 min walk
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Show on mapJinjiang · neighbourhood tea
A neighbourhood teahouse with thermoses, folding tables and mahjong from nine in the morning. The Chengdu guidebooks skip.
Tip: Ten yuan for tea and nobody will look twice if you sit reading for two hours.
🚇 Metro L3 红星桥 Hongxing Bridge · 6 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · tea shop
A tea shop with a tasting table: they pour you five Sichuan greens before you decide, and explain each one without rushing.
Tip: Ask for 竹叶青 and 蒙顶甘露 side by side — Sichuan's two emblematic greens.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapRaffles City · modern tea
A contemporary tea house in Raffles City: gaiwan and modern Chinese pastry in a pale-wood room. Twenty-first-century tea.
Tip: The air-conditioned, translated-menu version of the gaiwan ritual.
🚇 Metro L4/L8 双桥路 Shuangqiao Road · 5 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · Jinjiang
The open-air mall that defines Chinese luxury: low slate roofs, Louis Vuitton and Gucci wrapped around a 1,600-year-old Tang temple.
Tip: The eastern 'Slow Lane' holds the independent Chinese design shops, not the global brands.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 5 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · the climbing panda
The luxury mall with a 15-metre giant panda climbing the facade: Chengdu's obligatory photo and China's most photographed rooftop.
Tip: For the panda shot you need the 7th-floor terrace on the east side. It's free.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 3 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi Road · the pedestrian street
Western China's busiest shopping street: a century of history, brands across the whole spectrum and a permanent crowd.
Tip: By day it's a crush. By 10pm it empties and the neon facades are clean for photos.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 4 min walk
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Show on mapJiaozi · the sunken garden mall
China's most spectacular mall: almost entirely buried under a park, with skylights, sunken gardens and the country's priciest brands.
Tip: Worth visiting even if you buy nothing — the building is a work of architecture in itself.
🚇 Metro L1 锦城广场 Jincheng Square · 6 min walk
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Show on mapMengzhuiwan · riverside mall
The retail complex at the foot of the 339 tower: terraces over the Jin, cinemas, bars and the best night view of the lit tower.
Tip: The river-side terraces fill at 8pm — book if you want a table facing the tower.
🚇 Metro L6 新鸿路 Xinhong Road · 11 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · Chicony Plaza
The Chunxi Road mall with the best beauty and Asian fashion floor: Japanese and Korean brands you don't see in Europe.
Tip: Level -1 connects to the metro and half of Chunxi Road by tunnel — useful in the rain.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 3 min walk
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Show on mapSongxianqiao · antiques market
Chengdu's antiques market: jade, calligraphy, porcelain, bronzes and plenty of fakes. Hundreds of stalls across several buildings.
Tip: The big street market is Saturday and Sunday mornings. Haggle without guilt — the first price is triple.
🚇 Metro L2/L4 中医大·省医院 TCM Univ. · Provincial Hospital · 7 min walk
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Show on mapWuhou · relics market
The city's other antiques market, less touristy than Songxianqiao: old coins, stamps, radios and 1960s objects.
Tip: Come early in the morning — from 2pm many stalls are already shut.
🚇 Metro L3 高升桥 Gaoshengqiao · 5 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · crafts & tea
The Qing-style shopping lane beside Wenshu Monastery: incense, tea, calligraphy, stone seals and genuine Sichuanese crafts.
Tip: A stone seal carved with your name in Chinese costs 50-150 yuan and takes 20 minutes.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 7 min walk
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Show on mapChenghuangmiao · Chenghuang Chaofang
The old Chenghuang temple electronics market, reborn as the 城隍·潮坊 district that soft-opened in October 2026.
Tip: It only just soft-opened: go now if you want it before everyone finds out.
🚇 Metro L6 梁家巷 Liangjiaxiang · 9 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng Rd · phone street
Chengdu's electronics street: five blocks of phones, cameras, drones and repairs. Chaotic, cheap and very real.
Tip: If your phone dies mid-trip, they'll fix it here in an hour for a fraction of the price.
🚇 Metro L4 太升南路 Taisheng South Road · 2 min walk
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Show on mapChunxi · the big bookshop
Five floors of books in the middle of Chunxi Road, with a Chinese art and stationery section that's a souvenir in itself.
Tip: The stationery floor has brushes, ink and rice paper — Chengdu's best cheap souvenir.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 5 min walk
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Show on mapTaikoo Li · the panda bookshop
A bookshop-concept store with every well-made panda product that exists: illustration, ceramics and locally designed stationery.
Tip: Where to buy panda gifts without the Jinli kitsch. Fair prices.
🚇 Metro L2/L3 春熙路 Chunxi Road · 7 min walk
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Show on mapJianshe Rd · second-hand books
Chengdu's most beloved second-hand bookshop: 200,000 volumes stacked to the ceiling and an owner who knows every one.
Tip: There are old Chengdu postcards, posters and magazines — the city's most original souvenir.
🚇 Metro L7 府青路 Fuqing Road · 11 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng · rooftop bookshop
A rooftop bookshop-café downtown, ringed by potted cherry trees and looking over Chengdu's old roofs.
Tip: It's on a fourth floor with no sign at street level — find the doorway and take the lift.
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Show on mapYulin · books & records
A tiny second-hand bookshop in Yulin, with records, photography and the neighbourhood's most interesting people lingering inside.
Tip: Pair it with a wander round Yulin — the neighbourhood with Chengdu's densest independent retail.
🚇 Metro L1/L8 倪家桥 Nijiaqiao · 9 min walk
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Show on mapWenshu · Sichuan tea
A shop specialising in Sichuan green teas: Emeishan 竹叶青 and Mengding 蒙顶甘露, sold by weight with a tasting first.
Tip: Ask for 50 g vacuum tins — Chengdu's best-travelling souvenir.
🚇 Metro L1/L6 人民北路 Renmin North Road · 6 min walk
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Show on mapShuyuan St · Mengding tea
Mengding tea, grown for 2,000 years on the mountain 100 km from here: the world's first documented cultivated tea.
Tip: The autumn harvest is cheaper than spring and travels better.
🚇 Metro L3/L4 市二医院 Shi'er Yiyuan · 8 min walk
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Show on mapDongchenggen · Emeishan tea
The Mount Emei tea brand's shop, five minutes from Kuanzhai: high-altitude greens, gift tins and official-store prices.
Tip: It is an official brand: there is no haggling, but there are no fakes either.
🚇 Metro L2 人民公园 People's Park · 6 min walk
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Show on mapTaisheng · Mao-era collectibles
A Mao-era collectibles shop: propaganda posters, badges, little red books and 1960s-70s porcelain.
Tip: Ask for the original posters — reproductions cost a tenth and it shows.
🚇 Metro L1 文殊院 Wenshu Monastery · 6 min walk
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Show on mapJianshe Rd · Ito Yokado
The Japanese department store Chengdu adores: a basement of prepared food, Japanese snacks and the city's best fruit counter.
Tip: Head to the basement at 7:30pm — all the prepared food goes 30-50% off before closing.
🚇 Metro L6 建设北路 Jianshe North Road · 14 min walk
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Show on mapYulin · independent shops
Yulin's retail heart: vintage clothing, tattoo studios, records and young Chengdu design labels.
Tip: The surrounding streets beat the mall itself — walk 玉林西路 and 玉林东路.
🚇 Metro L8 芳草街 Fangcaojie · 10 min walk
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Show on mapTianfu Square · Yanlord Landmark
A quiet luxury mall beside Tianfu Square, holding the contemporary Chinese design boutiques Taikoo Li doesn't have.
Tip: Look for the 新中式 neo-Chinese labels: traditional cuts in modern fabrics.
🚇 Metro L1 锦江宾馆 Jinjiang Hotel · 4 min walk
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Show on mapWest Qingyang · Joy City
The west's young mall: streetwear, sneakers, anime zones and Chengdu's 潮牌 trend-brand scene concentrated in one place.
Tip: Chengdu is the capital of Chinese streetwear — almost the whole scene lives in this one building.
🚇 Metro L3 川藏立交 Chuanzang Interchange · 7 min walk
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