{"id":37811,"date":"2025-12-23T23:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=37811"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:18:56","slug":"day-19-chengdu-chunxi-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2025\/12\/23\/day-19-chengdu-chunxi-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 19 @ Chengdu \u2013 Chunxi Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 19 continued into our laid-back winding-down segment of this long holiday: it was spent visiting Chunxi Road<\/strong>, Chengdu’s popular and well-known pedestrian shopping street. It’s a fairly large area, very pedestrian-friendly and packed with skyscraper-like luxury malls, traditional styled streets with goods carrying more down-to-earth priced fare, and lots and lots of food options. And more Huawei\/Mi\/Vivo\/Oppo shops condensed in a single area than you’d find anywhere nearby. Heck: there is probably a Huawei store every 50m or so, all carrying the same items.<\/p>\n

The iconic panda art installation that you see in a lot of photos is found in the IFS building \u2014 you can’t miss it as you’d see the backside of a panda from the ground level outside first! The front of it, though, is seen via a rooftop garden at level 7, but be warned: there is almost always a queue of people wanting to take their photos right in front of that panda, and, as these things go, also photographer touts offering their services.<\/p>\n

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The wife and especially the daughter went nuts in this district shopping for clothes and apparel, while the boy and I got bored a little quicker \u2014 since once we’d seen the range of mobile tech gadgets carried by one Chinese manufacturer, you’ve pretty much seen everything that manufacturer is carrying. We spent 5 hours in the district and checked out of it in the late afternoon to miss the inevitable evening crowds and traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 19 continued into our laid-back winding-down segment of this long holiday: it was spent visiting Chunxi Road, Chengdu’s popular and well-known pedestrian shopping street. It’s a fairly large area, very pedestrian-friendly and packed with skyscraper-like luxury malls, traditional styled<\/p>\n

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