Is Wuhan Hubu Lane really worth going to? Many Wuhan people say that local people will never go here, so what is the reason?
It is said that food is the belief of a city, the night market is the soul of a city, and the food street naturally represents the taste of a city. So there is a saying that if you travel to a strange city and don't go to the hottest food street there, it is equivalent to not going.
In Wuhan, the "food capital", there are naturally famous food streets and Hubu Lane, which are the gathering places of food and the famous food paradise in China. It is said that the Wuhan flavor is gathered here, which is the pride of Wuhan people, so I went to Hubu Lane on my first trip to Wuhan.
Hubu Lane is so famous. It is located in the most prosperous Simenkou, Wuchang District, Wuhan, with a total length of about 200 meters. It is the most famous "breakfast lane" in Wuhan and is known as "the first lane of Chinese snacks".
Because of its prosperous geographical location, it is adjacent to the vast Yangtze River in the west and the Yellow Crane Tower in the south, so many tourists choose to eat enough food here and then visit the Yellow Crane Tower to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Yangtze River.
Supposedly, the food street in Wuhan should be very distinctive. It is also mouth-watering to think about Wuhan's special foods: Zhou Heiya, Wuchang fish, dried noodles, steamed dumplings, soup packets, Enshi Kang potatoes and so on. But when I really arrived at Hubu Lane, I was instantly disappointed. No wonder the locals didn't go.
What's in Hubu Lane? Regan Noodles in Wuhan is naturally a signboard, but to my disappointment, it is a Sichuanese who sells Regan Noodles in Wuhan, and Regan Noodles is so hot! Further down, I realized that "all the food streets in China are the same", and so is Hubu Lane.
What three kinds? Gluten stinky tofu kebab. Delicious baked gluten, kebabs, Xi 'an Chinese hamburger, sizzling squid, large sausage, hairy crabs, flower nails, roasted pig's trotters, etc. Not to mention these in other cities, even in any night market in Shijiazhuang where I live.
The price is good. Three skewers of baked gluten 10 yuan, two skewers of sizzling squid 15 yuan, a large portion of stinky tofu 13, and a small portion of 8 yuan are all inexpensive. It's just that I really don't want to eat anything special.
If you must find special food in Hubu Lane, it may be some online celebrity shops. I noticed that there were almost no people in front of the time-honored food stores in Hubei, but there were long queues in front of those online celebrity stores. Some went to CCTV, some went to Shi Jing, Hubei, and of course, the hottest one was on the Tik Tok hot search list.
We don't know whether these people in line are really eating food, whether they come for the signboard, or whether they are all employed by the store as some reports say. Anyway, the team of the "one rib" and "crispy pork belly" families is too long.
I heard before that Wuhan people don't go to Hubu Lane, only tourists from other places go. I was a "foreign tourist", so I went. However, I didn't leave a good impression. I feel that I can punch in as a classic, and it is enough to go once.
I have been to too many food streets in recent years, and the most impressive ones are Zhengning Road Food Street in Lanzhou, Bauhinia Night Market in Nanchang, Pichai Yuan in Qingdao, Hongyadong in Chongqing, Beihai Old Street in Guangxi, Qihe Food Street in Dezhou, Zhongshan Road Food Street in Nanning, etc. I really feel that the food streets in China are similar.