Jianshe Alley
Narrow food alley of charcoal grills and street stalls near a university, famous for roast trotters and late-night queues.
This guide to Jianshe Alley in Chengdu follows a street vendor named Xu Liang, who set up a charcoal cart around twenty ten in a backstreet squeezed between university dorms, chasing skin that cracked like glass on a roasted pig's trotter. It moves down the same three-hundred-meter alley to meet other cooks obsessed with a single dish, among them Zhou Qianqian working crisped rice and fried potato, and a cook nicknamed Ye Popo boiling bobo chicken. You'll hear how students turned a backstreet they joked was a graveyard into the alley's smoky center of gravity. Come at night, when the charcoal smoke and queues are thickest.
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