Chengdu

Yulinchuanchuanxiang

Cheap and fast hotpot variety. This is a help-yourself style meal, go to a backroom and choose your own kabobs. Stick the kabobs into a hotp

Lanzhou beef noodles

A bowl of noodles starts for about ¥4, and reach a maximum of ¥7. Varieties include egg, lamb and beef. Other dishes are reasonable in price

Steamed buns

Sold for breakfast or lunch from street vendors throughout the city. Yagcai bao (芽菜包) is a local Sichuan special variety you are unlikely to

Lao Chengdu Yi Cheng Xian San Yang Mian

Budget Sichuan noodle restaurant featured in the Michelin Guide. Try the San Yang Mian.

Wenshu Temple Vegetarian Restaurant

In the grounds of a monastery and run by monks. Offers a huge selection of traditional vegetarian dishes, including some containing imitated

Chen Mapo

Traffic Hotel/Traffic Inn

One hundred percent geared towards foreign backpackers and is a good place to organize a tour or buy tickets. The adjacent Traffic Inn Hoste

Barsby Hotel

In addition to being happily underpriced for the value provided, fans of Fawlty Towers will find themselves confronted by Basil Fawlty's goo

The Leg & Whistle Pub

Chengdu Jason's Nest Guest House

Fully-equipped hostel with spacious bright rooms, clean bunks, the Tibetan-style dining room and bar. Located in the leisure, entertainment,

The Loft