Chengdu — Places to eat
Pandas at dawn, hotpot past midnight, tea all day long.
- Shu Daxia Hotpot (Xiyulong Street) — One of the best-known Chengdu hotpot brands among visitors
- Xiaolongkan Hotpot (Dongdajie) — Lantern-strung hotpot chain open into the small hours
- Yulin Chuanchuan Xiang (Chunxi) — Old-guard chuanchuan: pick skewers, cook them in mala broth
- Chen Mapo Tofu (Main Branch) — Mapo tofu's birthplace (1862), served bubbling in a stone pot
- Ma's Kitchen / Ma Wang Zi (Taikoo Li) — Michelin-starred Sichuan home cooking, about US$14 a head
- Xiyuecheng Tan Douhua (Chunxi Road) — A Chengdu breakfast of dan dan noodles, douhua and dumplings
- Zhong Shuijiao (Kuanzhai Alley – Qintai) — Pork-only dumplings under sweet red chilli oil
- Lai Tangyuan (Zongfu Road) — Tangyuan since 1894; a ¥58 set tours Chengdu snacks
- Long Chaoshou (Chunxi Road) — Chengdu wontons (chaoshou) since 1941
- Shuangliu Laoma Rabbit Heads (Jinsi Street) — Mala rabbit heads, Chengdu's favourite beer snack
- Gan Ji Fei Chang Fen — Bib Gourmand pork-intestine noodle soup, 30-plus years old
- Heming Teahouse (People's Park) — 1923 open-air teahouse: bamboo chairs, tea and snacks
- Chanquan Bingfen — Bingfen specialist with brown-sugar syrup and rice cake
- Sandapao on Jinli Street — Rice cakes thrown with a bang-bang-bang, in brown sugar and soy flour
- ChaPanda (Chunxi Road) — Chengdu-born panda milk tea, about US$2–3 a cup
- Zeng Niu Rou (Qingyang) — A family beef joint that lives on one meat
- Long Sen Yuan (Qingyang) — Old-school Chengdu hotpot, 20+ years in
- Dongzikou Zhang Lao Er Liangfen — Old sesame-garlic jelly shop by Wenshu
- Wan San Mian Guan (Qinglongzheng Street) — Yibin-style ranmian, a chilli-sauced noodle bowl
- Bai Nian Fen Zheng Niu Rou — Old-Chengdu courtyard, steamed spiced-rice beef
- The Hall (Taikoo Li) — Michelin-starred tasting in a 1730s house
- Qi Le 24h Bookshop and Cafe — A bookshop café that never switches off its lights
- Shunxing Old Teahouse — Tea with Sichuan opera and face-changing
- Yuelai Teahouse — Old opera teahouse, about ¥30 a head