WangFu Jing Street: Dichotomies at their best...

If you are looking for a place to buy your upscale European gear and still be able to grab some fried cicadas and silk worm kabobs on the way home, WangFu Jing Street has it all.  If you start at one end you can buy your Prada and Burberry, then weave your way through the crowd to the far end, turn the corner and you're on Donghua Men Street where you can snack on fried bugs until you come to your senses!

WangFu Jing street has actually been around since the middle of the Ming Dynasty and has housed commercial activity nearly the entire time.  the area was originally settled by eight aristocratic estates who located there when a particularly special water source was discovered he the well there.  The name "WangFu" means "aristocratic residence and "Jing" means "well".

Sorry some of these pics are a bit blurry, but that's what happens when you are trying to keep up with a long legged white man in a crowd like this ;)

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