How could we get a hearty meal after strenous hikings from Emel and Qingcheng as to compensate ourselves in the evening? In Chengdu, it is easy. Just find a place to eat, no matter it's a decent restaurant, a bistro, or a canteen in food court, then you can enjoy a wide variety of delicious food of Sichuan style: spicy hot pot, extremely spicy fish or viscera of ox or pig, chaoshou, dandan noodle, 三大砲, 一根麵, and so on. Bon appetit, man.
Those items can hardly be called haute cuisine, but they are characteristicaly Sichuan's ambrosia. Try them, when you have the opportunity of travelling Chengdu.
P.S. Chengdu is really an amazing city. Before I went there, I was told that it is a city of leisure and recreation. People may play mahjong on the pavement of streets during daytime. But I didn't witness such a scene during my stay. Actually, it a fast-developing city: high-rise buildings and subways are under construction everywhere. A seemingly endless highway led us to the newly-developed southern district where numerous splendid buildings have risen straight up along either side. Then an eyepopping scene emerges: 環球商城, reputedly the largest single construction in the world now. It occupies a whole block, and I estimate the length of its facade may have at least 400 meters. Its opulent inner courtyard is as tall as a height of eight floors. Customers can take a long ride on escalators to the "first floor", where one of the passages leading to the back parts is made of transparent plastic panel. People having acrophobia certainly dare not walk through it because that will make you feel dizzy for sure. Can you imagine that the mart also has a artificial beach in there. Oh my goodness!
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