At the same time, with the growing commercial atmosphere of Shangjiu Road and Xiajiu Road, a number of related professional markets have been derived from the surrounding areas. After more than one hundred years, we can still find some historical traces, and now it has developed into an important commercial network in this area. There is a paper wholesale market in the east and a sewing machine professional market in Guangfu Middle Road. Guangfu south road cloth market; Xiang Yang Road Cloth Market; Dexing road clothing ingredients market; In the south, there are the famous clothing market of Jiuyi Street on Thirteen Roads, the cloth market of Shibafu Road, the national famous Huangsha agricultural and sideline products market and Qingping Chinese herbal medicine market. To the west are the century-old shops of Shifu Road (now the pedestrian street)-Taotaoju, Lianxianglou, and many restaurants. In the north, there are changshou road barber supplies professional market, gold industry, gold and silver jewelry industry; Zheng Xilai Street Jade Market and Suanzhi Furniture Street with a long history; Sheng Yuan street, antique street, etc. , forming a huge commercial network with a vertical and horizontal area of nearly 2.5 square kilometers, bringing together all kinds of goods to meet the needs of different types of merchants and citizens. There are dozens of restaurants in the pedestrian street, including Taotaoju, a century-old shop, and Guangzhou Restaurant, a national super-class restaurant. There are also a number of shops, such as Nanxin dessert shop, European noodle restaurant and Xiguan family, which operate Xiguan's famous snacks. There are also famous traditional cake shops that make Cantonese-style moon cakes-Lianxianglou, Taotaoju, Fun Cookie House and Guangzhou Restaurant. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, all kinds of moon cakes produced here sell well at home and abroad. Restaurants from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as restaurants at home and abroad, have also entered the pedestrian street, becoming an area for the exchange of traditional and modern, ethnic and international food culture, which fully embodies the cultural features of eating in Guangzhou and enjoying in Xiguan.
Since the opening of the pedestrian street on September 30th 1995, after several years of development, it has achieved good economic and social benefits. 1992 was named as a street not selling (producing) fake and shoddy goods by Guangzhou municipal government, 1996 was named as Youth Civilization Street by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, 1997 was named as the top ten tourist attractions in Yangcheng-Xiguan Commercial Corridor, 1998 was named as the Propaganda Department of the CPC, the Ministry of Internal Trade and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.
This is a very attractive place. There are middle and senior department stores all over the pedestrian street, including Yong 'an Department Store, Guangzhou Clothing Store, heming Shoes and Hats Store, Mainland Watch Store, Women's and Children's Department Store, Guangzhou Textile City, Jinhua Bedding Store and other old brands. Interestingly, some top brands of new goods and old models have been "clearance sale" all the year round; As for restaurants, there are Qingping Hotel, Emperor Vera Restaurant, guangzhou fu Restaurant, Taotaoju Restaurant, Lianxianglou, the municipal food store and so on.
In addition, there are interesting cookie families, tea houses, Wenchang chicken, Qingping chicken, fried chicken with ginger and scallion, and various famous dishes and snacks such as ginger milk, double-skin milk, ou Wonton Noodles, Hetou porridge, Cantonese moon cakes, glutinous rice chicken, old lady cakes and quick-frozen food. There is also a world-famous Hualin Jade Street. Qingping Road is not only a food street, but also the largest farmer's street in China. In addition, there are many stationery stores, professional shopping malls and department stores. It is worth mentioning that there are large commercial and residential buildings in Liwan Square, where the opening ceremony of the annual International Food Festival is held.
Great changes have taken place in the upper, lower and ninth floors after comprehensive construction. Under the skyline, tall buildings are crowded together. People will feel the strong Lingnan characteristics: the arcade-style buildings on both sides of the road are well preserved; Xiguan big house in the streets and lanes, Marsh Street is still there; More than 300 meters of large spotlights were built on the road to spray the paintings of Yangcheng Landscape Gallery, and nearly 100 neon signs were brightly lit; Coupled with the giant neon signs, large spotlights and paintings on the pedestrian street, and more than 2,000 lanterns and colored lights hanging along the road ... it really adds a lot of color to this metropolis. At night, it is particularly brilliant against the backdrop of dark night and neon lights.
Gourmet: Taste Xiguan all the way.
In the old days, there was a saying in Xiguan that "there must be snacks within a hundred steps". Many street snacks with unique flavors have been handed down to this day. From changshou road subway station to Guangzhou restaurant, you must keep your eyes open. In a corner of a small street that you don't pay attention to, there are snacks that make your appetite big.
Rice rolls, or "Yinlu", is the food counted nine times; "Europe" supplies fresh shrimp to Wonton Noodles; "Wu" also has the first porridge, fish skin porridge; "Guangzhou Restaurant" soup packets, shrimp dumplings, steamed dumplings, radish cakes; Lotus seed cake, egg cake, old woman cake and dragon and phoenix wedding cake in Lianxianglou; Taotaoju's ginger and onion chicken and cream steamed stuffed bun; "Nanxin" Double Skin Milk, Ginger Milk and Cow Samsung; "Linlin" giblet pig red soup ...
Among hundreds of snacks in Xiguan, more than 20 kinds are well-known brands, among which 10 is also rated as "Chinese famous snacks", such as "Nanxin double skin milk" by Nanxin dessert experts, "Nanxin ginger bumping milk", "Shrimp wonton" by European pasta, "Wu No.1 porridge" by Wu Zhou, Lianxiang and so on.
Tan Zaocha enjoys Cantonese dim sum.
Living in nearby old Guangzhou, I always want friends of all ages to go to Guangzhou Restaurant and Taotaoju for morning tea and the most authentic Cantonese dim sum in my spare time on weekdays.
Young people are not so particular. You can find delicious food everywhere in old stalls and old shops. Without tables and chairs, you can eat contentedly if you park on the street or stroll around while eating. The prestigious "Linlin" grocery store has a storefront of only two or three square meters. A pot of steaming turnip beef offal is being cooked by Gollum. The aunt at the store handed me a bowl full of turnip beef offal, plus seafood sauce, garlic sauce, hot sauce and homemade sour radish granules. I ate it at one stop, sweating profusely, but the rich fragrance made me infinitely satisfied. Linlin's turnip beef offal looks not exquisite, but the turnip is not big and tastes a lot. Beef brisket is full of flavor and very suitable for eating.
After eating salty things, you should moisten your taste buds with sweet desserts. Nanxin dessert shop with a history of 60 years, "Nanxin double skin milk" enjoys a high reputation in Guangzhou. The so-called "double skin" is because when making, high-quality buffalo fresh milk is selected, boiled in water, and then quickly poured into a bowl for cooling and freezing, and the bowl surface is covered with a layer of milk skin; Then poke a small hole in the milk skin to pour out the fresh milk, mix it with a proper amount of fresh egg white, then pour it into a bowl through the small hole and stew it with water. The fresh milk in the bowl has formed a layer of skin, so it is called "double skin milk". Nanxin double skin milk is fragrant, looks like manna, and tastes smooth and tender. Many diners are not afraid of the distance and come here to taste.
Traditional modern arbitrary choice
In addition to the traditional snacks in Xiguan, you can also eat Korean and Japanese food and famous snacks from all over the country at Minghui Zhonghua Snack Street next to Liwan Square. Roadside snack bars, roasted chicken legs, sizzling squid ... attract people's appetite all the time. Not far away are Fairy Forest, Kungfu, Pizza Hut, McDonald's and Saglia Italian Restaurant. Compared with Beijing Road and Tianhe City, Shangxiajiu's biggest commercial features are arcades, sculptures and time-honored brands, which constitute the folk customs of Shangxiajiu.
From the master to Shangjiu Road, the arcade is spread out in front of you. At present, these buildings, which are the largest in Guangzhou and still maintain the function of commercial prosperity, were built in the Qing Dynasty. They are the products of the combination of the architectural features of southern Europe and the traditional architectural style of Xiguan, and the decoration is also integrated with the Manchu decoration in the north.
Near Liwan Square, there are more sculptures showing the traditional life of Xiguan. They will always be the favorite of tourists, representing the traditional culture of Guangzhou and awakening the traditional Guangzhou complex of the citizens. These sculptures representing Xiguan customs were created by Wan Zhaoquan in 2002. Herbal Tea Stall, Ren Minqiao, Old Driver and Beautiful Pictures in Front of the Door are all lifelike. Through these sculptures, the life scenes of Guangzhou people emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, and the feelings of Xiguan were beyond words.
When you wander in the morning and evening, a figure with a pointed bamboo flat hat, red rouge on his cheeks and a "colorful rooster" appears. He used suona to imitate the cock's cry "sell olives, sell olives". That's the staff selling chicken oil fruit, which was specially played by the Lizhiwan Cultural Exchange Association to preserve the culture of chicken oil fruit. His appearance is like going back in time, which reminds us of Xiguan folk custom in 1930s and 40s. "A pack of mosquitoes tastes good whether they are spicy or not", and people who have been to Shangxiajiu will remember this sentence when they come back to talk about chicken.
Although most people come here for her business atmosphere, some people's interests are not here. Turning to many alleys along the road is another quiet world with deeper cultural connotation.
Almost every street has a beautiful legend and a profound history. The "Wen Lan Pavilion" on Xiajiu Road confirms the history of thirteen wealthy businessmen establishing "Wen Lan Academy" in the past. Zhan Lu Zhijie is the place where the champion Liang once lived during Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty. Taotaoju is a gathering place for Cantonese opera artists in history. It was once famous for "Xiguan Ancient Altar" and Frost Garden Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition. People here like to sing Cantonese opera "Private House Bureau", which is also very famous. The Liwan Yayuan Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition Hall of the City Bookstore, and the Ping An Theater where Cantonese Opera is staged, are even more cultural oases on this pedestrian street.