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By Xu Wenwen |
September 16, 2010, Thursday
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FOOD, glorious food. Hangzhou is making it easy for people to get some Chinese dumplings, Japanese sushi or an Indian curry all on one street.
Chinese Cuisine Night Market Street, the city's longest food street at 1,400 meters, will open on September 30 with hundreds of different kinds of food.
The pedestrian street reflects its ancient history as it features traditional Chinese architecture from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).
The market will include both restaurants and snack booths with Chinese, Asian and Western foods available.
More than 70 snack booths will boast food from India, Japan, Thailand and America and 16 barbecue booths feature cuisine from South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Japan.
The old-style buildings along the street will house a bunch of distinctive Chinese brands, such as Xing Hua Lou Restaurant from Shanghai, Laobian Dumpling Restaurant from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Xi'an Fanzhuang Restaurant from Shaanxi Province, and, of course, some local Zhejiang Province eateries.
The street also includes more than 200 specialties from Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hong Kong and Taiwan cuisine will also be available.
Booths and stores selling small commodities will add more charm to the market. It is estimated that more than 500 different knickknacks will be on sale including handicrafts, silk items and cheap antiques and jewelry.
It's no secret that Hangzhou people love to spend money - both on food and shopping - and the government is using this opportunity to boost the local economy.
Hangzhou municipal government plans to set up 19 night markets in three years. Seven are already open, including Shengli River Food Street (also known as Gushui Food Street), the most successful one thus far. It opened in February and its total sales have reached 50 million yuan (US$7.42 million).
Daguan Night Market, which mainly sells small commodities, has total sales of 11 million yuan this year, while the nearby Dengyun Road Night Market has revenue of 7 million yuan this year.
By the end of this year, 10 night markets will be available with the addition of Chinese Cuisine Night Market Street, Sandun Night Market and Xicheng Night Market.
Chinese Cuisine Night Market Street, the city's longest food street at 1,400 meters, will open on September 30 with hundreds of different kinds of food.
The pedestrian street reflects its ancient history as it features traditional Chinese architecture from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279).
The market will include both restaurants and snack booths with Chinese, Asian and Western foods available.
More than 70 snack booths will boast food from India, Japan, Thailand and America and 16 barbecue booths feature cuisine from South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Japan.
The old-style buildings along the street will house a bunch of distinctive Chinese brands, such as Xing Hua Lou Restaurant from Shanghai, Laobian Dumpling Restaurant from Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Xi'an Fanzhuang Restaurant from Shaanxi Province, and, of course, some local Zhejiang Province eateries.
The street also includes more than 200 specialties from Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hong Kong and Taiwan cuisine will also be available.
Booths and stores selling small commodities will add more charm to the market. It is estimated that more than 500 different knickknacks will be on sale including handicrafts, silk items and cheap antiques and jewelry.
It's no secret that Hangzhou people love to spend money - both on food and shopping - and the government is using this opportunity to boost the local economy.
Hangzhou municipal government plans to set up 19 night markets in three years. Seven are already open, including Shengli River Food Street (also known as Gushui Food Street), the most successful one thus far. It opened in February and its total sales have reached 50 million yuan (US$7.42 million).
Daguan Night Market, which mainly sells small commodities, has total sales of 11 million yuan this year, while the nearby Dengyun Road Night Market has revenue of 7 million yuan this year.
By the end of this year, 10 night markets will be available with the addition of Chinese Cuisine Night Market Street, Sandun Night Market and Xicheng Night Market.
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