大兜路历史文化街区

This guide to the Dadou Road historic district in Hangzhou starts in 1880, when Zhejiang's governor Tan Zhonglin faced a city running out of rice and ordered a new granary raised on the muddy bank where the Grand Canal bends past this street. You'll hear how the Fuyi Granary took four years and eleven thousand taels of silver to complete, and how its reputation spread far beyond Hangzhou. Walk the market street today, past the old water steps, and you'll find the same appetite in scallion pancakes and noodles sold hot along the canal.