Xiamen Night Walk | The Pedestrian Street & Night Food Alleys | 4K HDR | Fujian | 厦门 | 中山路步行街 | 曾厝垵

It's my second time to visit this great city.

I only got 48 hours in this city.

I filmed 2 videos. One is Xiamen University, and one is Xiamen's pedestrian street.
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Zhongshan street is the nerve centre of Xiamen tourism.

All tourists, travellers, visitors, how you may prefer to call them, they all come here at some point of their visit.

It is said that more than a billion people pass here every year. More than a billion!

Now you would wonder who these people are and where they all come from?

Well, firstly, they aren’t foreigners. They are local Chinese tourists from other regions in China.

Secondly, in this trip to Xiamen, I realised that China is seriously an economic power to reckon with.

They do not need foreigners to augment their tourism sector.

They are self-sufficient because millions of Chinese are out there travelling locally.

Zhongshan Road is the oldest commercial street in Xiamen dating back to 1925.

It is a kilometre long walking street filled with pretty retail shops, big department stores, lots of cute cafes and contemporary and traditional cuisine restaurants, food courts and more retail shops.

It is closed to any vehicular traffic and smoking is not allowed on the streets.

Visiting this street is a must for Xiamen first time visitors. Some may find this street too touristy, highly commercialised, loud and nothing special at all, whilst another will probably think it is great and lively, and a good representation where the now capitalist China is heading for.

Western and traditional shops collide here at Zhongshan; yes, there is a KFC and McDonalds and the interior design of many tea shops, such as the elegant Miss Zhao will make you think you are in one of the exclusive stores in Europe.

There are tea stores here selling the traditional loose leaf tea and others that are trendy, a combination of a tea shop and a cafe promoting milk tea and pearl milk tea. Zhang Sanfeng Milk Tea Shop is one of the popular ones.

There is a wide array of local food delights as well which are perfect to bring home as souvenirs and gifts, such as dried food products (crab, squid, fish, pork floss), nuts, durian, pineapple and mango candies, mooncakes of different flavours, roast duck and more.

Many promotional ladies stand outside the shops as well and beg passersby to taste a sample of their product. I managed to taste some of the dried seafood and mooncakes and ended up buying a few packs as homecoming gifts for my family.

There is also a very interesting street food scene here. The Fujian-style snacks which has a focus on seafood and right up my alley as I love anything coming from the sea. I will be writing a separate post about this very soon.

Except for food, I am not a big retail shopper but there is plenty of department stores here for people looking for clothes, shoes and other dry personal and home goods.

And oh, for the ladies, many jewellery shops here would chain you a necklace made of pearls harvested from a live oyster right before your eyes. While you wait.

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0:00 Intro
1:38 The Old Pedestrian Street
30:39 The Metro Station
34:53 China City Mall
39:05 Zengcuoan, the night food alley
52:59 The cat theme alley

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