The main commercial streets in Xiamen include traditional shopping places such as Zhongshan Road, Gulangyu Longtou Road, Xiahe Road, Bailuzhou Shopping Recreation City and Hubin Middle Road. There are some specialty shops in Xiamen Avenue, Beth-Datong Road and Hexiang West Road, which are more suitable for young people and worth spending time visiting.
Main commercial streets and shopping centers in Xiamen
Zhongshan Road
Zhongshan Road, with the title of "Top Ten Famous Streets in China", is a traditional bustling business district in Xiamen. There are hundreds of shopping malls along the street, and there are many commodities, which are spectacular. Among them, Hualian Building, Huahui Shopping Mall, Paris Spring Siming Store and Jinlu Jewelry are the larger ones. The architectural shapes on Zhongshan Road are different, and the European architectural style is skillfully combined with the characteristics of coastal cities to make it interesting.
This century-old street is the only commercial street in Xiamen that leads directly to the sea. You can also enjoy the scenery of Gulangyu Island after shopping. Several streets adjacent to Zhongshan Road, such as Siming South Road, Siming North Road, Siming West Road, Siming East Road and Jukou Street, are also good places for shopping. You can go shopping by the way.
Transportation: You can take No.2, No.3, No.4, 10, 12, No.23, No.25, No.27, No.30, No.32, No.8 double-decker buses and private small and medium-sized buses.
Gulangyu Longtou Road
Longtou Road is the main commercial street of Gulangyu Island and the only way for tourists to visit the island. There are many handicraft shops and calligraphy and painting shops on both sides of the street, that is, there are local handicrafts such as pearl embroidery, lacquer line carving, colored ties, colored plastics and colored porcelain. , as well as antiques, jade, calligraphy and painting and porcelain from all over the country. At the same time, many dry goods stores in South China have been opened, which are more suitable for tourists to buy and bring back to relatives and friends.
Transportation: Xiamen Ferry Terminal ferries ashore.
SM Town Plaza
Xiamen's largest shopping mall, sporting goods and groceries on the first floor, clothing on the second floor, electronic products on the third floor, furniture on the fourth floor, casual clothes and food city on the fifth floor. The food city gathers all kinds of Xiamen snacks, especially the oyster omelet fried by Zeng Huayi, which is very delicious. The basement is Wal-Mart. The parking lot outside the square is the shuttle bus station of Riyuegu Hot Spring.
Address: No.468 Jiahe Road, Siming District (Xianyue Road)
Mart shopping mall
Xiamen's most famous large-scale shopping, leisure and entertainment venue is adjacent to the railway station, with convenient transportation. It has internationally renowned Wal-Mart, Paris Spring Department Store, McDonald's and KFC fast food restaurants. The Xinshishang Cultural Food Plaza in the shopping mall brings together Xiamen traditional famous snacks and other local and foreign snacks.
Address: 878-888 Xiahe Road
Tip: tourists who buy dried seafood locally should be careful, especially in Gulangyu, the highest price of scallops will reach 980 yuan per catty, but after hard bargaining, they only need about 200 yuan to win it; When buying shrimp, you should buy the best gold hook. Many shops use the shrimp of bighead carp as a golden hook, so you'd better have a taste before buying it. The gold hook is very fresh, but it is not true unless it is fresh.
Xiamen cuisine
Xiamen, near the sea, has its seafood. The famous dish "Ginger Duck" is a top-grade soup made of more than a dozen Chinese medicines. Besides China cuisine, frozen bamboo shoots, satay noodles and peanut soup are all local specialties.
The core of Xiamen cuisine is the four treasures of seafood: crab, shrimp, fish and shellfish, with Minnan flavor as the main body, and Taiwan Province and Chaoshan flavors as well. On the basis of the inheritance of Fujian cuisine, we learn from others, abandon the rough and greasy taste, take the fresh and fragrant taste, steam, stir-fry, fry, stew, stir-fry and stir-fry. And other techniques, paying attention to the five elements of color, aroma, taste, shape and quality, creatively exerting the characteristics of fresh, light, tender, mellow and slightly spicy, and producing hundreds of delicious dishes, which won many awards in previous national cooking competitions and won high praise from the national cooking community.
Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island: It is the most important shopping and food street on Gulangyu Island. There are many small shops on the island, where the famous "Four Famous Foods" and other special foods are concentrated.
In the past twenty years, the four treasures of seafood have been greatly developed, and the national gold medals are: dry fried cover, green belt wrapped bag, Jade Emperor, Xi Shihuansha, Butterfly Dragon, Dragon Boat Race, stewed cabbage fish, yellow mandarin duck and Antarctic goose play.
Vegetarian food in Xiamen was originally a traditional practice, which was made from bean products into pictographic foods such as chicken, fish, belly and feet. In the early 1960s, Master Su Zhai of Nanputuo abandoned the pictographic concept, creatively prepared and named vegetarian dishes, and made vegetarian dishes into exquisite and elegant dinners. Eating vegetarian dishes can not only regulate appetite, but also be an elegant artistic enjoyment. Now, after nearly 40 years' development, especially in the past 20 years, Nanputuo vegetarian dishes have become high-class dishes in Southeast Asia and are famous all over the country. It has been able to cook hundreds of dishes, and 10 days can't be repeated. It has become a beautiful business card of Xiamen cuisine.
The antique medicated diet in Lujiang Hotel is good in color, fragrance and taste, and the utensils such as dishes and jars are specially made with purple sand, which is elegant and generous. Medicinal diet is undoubtedly an artistic feast with endless aftertaste.
Optimal travel time
Except for the typhoon season in summer, it is good to travel to Xiamen at other times, because all the boats at the seaside stopped at that time and you couldn't enjoy the beautiful sea view.
Xiamen is most suitable for traveling in spring and autumn, and it is warmer in winter. Xiamen is sunny and lush with flowers and trees. The overall temperature in Xiamen is mild, with an average annual temperature of 20.9℃ and a minimum temperature of 4℃. It is very hot here in summer, and it is generally above 30℃ from July to August.
In Xiamen in spring, the sunshine is soft and lovely, the sea breeze is pleasant, the waves beat against the rocks and play soothing music, and the green mountains and green waters are in harmony with the fun. When you visit Xiamen at this time, you might as well pay attention to the islands, such as Dayu, Huoshaoyu and Monkey Island. Their soil color is striking reddish brown, so it is also called red soil, which is acidic.
Recommended: Hero Mishima and Shiwan Botanical Garden
Autumn in Xiamen is very pleasant. /kloc-In October, the "Huang Jingui" oolong tea in Anxi has been planted, which is the time for Xiamen tea sticks to taste tea. Xiamen people's unique "Mid-Autumn Festival fighting cake" is also carried out at this time, which is not available in the whole country, and there is no weight change. Look at the fiery red scenery, taste fragrant tea, taste refreshing cakes and enjoy the warmth of autumn in Xiamen.
Recommended: Jimei Xue Cun and Nanputuo Temple.
Xiamen in winter is a paradise to escape from the noise, elegant and full of temperament. Palm trees hang down branches and leaves, phoenix trees bloom like fire, coconut trees are straight in outline, banyan trees have long leaves and beards, like huge wall hangings, and Xiamen shows its vitality in a warm atmosphere.
Recommended: Riyuegu Hot Spring Theme Park and Huandao Road Sightseeing Avenue.
In the midsummer, Xiamen has the most charming oriental Hawaiian charm and the most affectionate midsummer night dream in the south. At this time, the air is extremely clear and dry, and the sky is almost always the most pleasing blue, occasionally dotted with white clouds. Strolling through Gulangyu Island, the quiet atmosphere keeps the ethereal and distant water and sky.
Recommended: Gulangyu Island, Xiamen University
There are various hotels and guesthouses in Xiamen, among which Sofitel Xiamen, Sheraton Xiamen and Quiet Villa are the best. The house price is around 1000 yuan.
Popular areas in Xiamen are: Railway Station, Zhongshan Road, Gulangyu Island and Xiamen University. If you want to spend a few days in Xiamen, it is recommended to stay in hotels with convenient transportation, such as railway station areas, express hotels and four-star hotels. The price is about two or three hundred yuan.
If you want to enjoy the sea view, it is recommended to live around Gulangyu Island or Xiamen Island. Gulangyu has advanced seaside villas, Xiamen Sea Garden Hotel, Haoyueyuan Leisure and Holiday Club, etc. And the price is very high; There is also the famous NAYA Hotel, rebuilt by the former German Consulate, adjacent to the International Youth Hostel, with a price of several hundred yuan. Hotels staying in Gulangyu or the seaside range from two to four stars, and the price ranges from 120-3000.
There are also many cheap and clean hotel-style apartments near Xiamen University, the price is around 100 yuan, which is a relatively cheap accommodation area. The housing supply in the peak season in Xiamen will be tight, so it is best to book rooms in advance to ensure the smooth progress of the trip.
* May Day, November Day and Spring Festival are the peak seasons in Xiamen, and the rooms are quite tight.
Hotels in Xiamen will be more expensive if they stay directly. It is recommended to book a room at a large-scale reservation website with good reputation, which is generally 2~7 fold lower than the retail price.
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