Nanshi Food Street Nanshi Food Street is located in the bustling area of ??Heping District, with an overall construction area of ??42,000 square meters. It was built in 1985.

Nanshi Food Street adopts national style architecture. The whole street is like a city, majestic, simple and elegant.

The street is connected by four gates, with a glass dome and an 800-meter-long white marble cloister with terraces. It is majestic and antique, like a palace city.

The four gates are named Zhenyu Gate, Xingge Gate, Zhongsheng Gate and Huayuan Gate, which means "revitalizing China".

Nanshi Food Street integrates the architectural art and culinary art of the Chinese nation, and integrates catering, shopping and tourism to become the largest catering and food city in the country.

Nanshi Food Street brings together the eight major domestic cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui, as well as Tianjin, Beijing, Shanxi, and halal dishes, as well as Western food, Japanese and Korean cuisine, and operates more than 200 domestic famous dishes.

Specialty snacks, national famous foods and Chinese and foreign famous wines and drinks.

The daily passenger flow exceeds 100,000.

Nanshi Food Street has both ornamental and dietary values.

Focusing on its ornamental value, Nanshi Food Street has the classical beauty of national architecture.

The entire food street looks like a shrunken ancient city.

The building complex has three floors, with a cross corridor in the middle. The top of the corridor is a curved glass roof, which closes the square city and connects it into one, forming a shared space.

There are four entrances to the four corridors. Each entrance has a gate tower with an arched door opening in the middle. There is a plaque 1.7 meters wide and 6.2 meters long on the door opening, with the words "Nanshi Food Street" engraved on it.

"The five large characters are composed of the handwriting of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty. The font is elegant and powerful, with flying charm.

The four gatehouses of the food street are imitations of Qing-style ancient buildings, 24.5 meters high and 16 meters wide.

The roof of the gatehouse is a wooden structure with double eaves.

The eight cornices and wing corners have the same appearance. On the head of the wing horns are glazed tiles with beasts, war beasts, dragons, phoenixes, lions and immortal animals.

The green glazed tile roof has two kissing beasts at both ends of the main ridge.

There are splendid colorful paintings on the foreheads, pads and beams under the eaves.

There is an archway plaque on each of the four gates of the food street. The south is the "Zhenyu" gate, the west is the "Xingge" gate, the north is the "Zhongsheng" gate, and the east is the "Huafu" gate.

The first couplet is "Revitalizing China".

The font of the door plaque is excerpted from the stele stickers of calligraphers Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ouyang Xun and Zhao Mengfu.

The meanings of the four archway names are "revitalizing and welcoming guests", "singing and dancing", "Zhongsheng is drunk" and "luxurious and delicious".

The eight raised corners of the pavilion's eaves are soaring in the air, stretched and elegant, echoing the four gate towers, and are well-proportioned, showing the dignity and splendor of the building.

What adds to the splendor of this palace-like building is the colorful lanterns.

There are more than 80 kinds of lamps, more than 6,000 units, and more than 20,000 lamps installed in the food street.

These lamps combine various styles from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, including bronze hexagonal chandeliers, hexagonal wall lamps, hexagonal garden lamps, and octagonal column lamps with rich ethnic colors, as well as modern crystal rod combination ceiling lamps, red cotton chandeliers, chrysanthemum chandeliers, and more.

There are a variety of exotic multi-focus projector "spotlights" and printed orb wall sconces.

Food street lights have different shapes and colors. On the lampshades made of black sand, sandblasting and grinding, there are many colors such as milky white, fiery red, colorless and transparent, and painted baked flowers.

At night, these competing lanterns illuminate the food street.

In addition to the main building, the food street is filled with dazzling paintings, brilliant calligraphy on plaques, and fresh and timeless garden sketches, all of which provide people with beautiful enjoyment.

Focusing on the food value of the food street, it is a huge food museum that gathers delicious food from all over the world.

Due to the differences in products and cultural origins, my country's cooking techniques have formed the eight most influential cuisines in the long-term evolution, and six of them can be found in Nanshi Food Street, namely Shandong Cuisine Restaurant (Shandong Style) Penglaixiang Restaurant, Juyingde Restaurant, Hualin Restaurant, Jiuhelou Seafood Restaurant, Game Restaurant, Phoenix Restaurant; Suzhou Deyuelou in Su Cuisine Restaurant (Jiangsu flavor); Emei Restaurant in Sichuan Cuisine Restaurant (Sichuan Flavor); Huizhou Restaurant Gujing Restaurant among the restaurants (Anhui flavor); Yangcheng Restaurant, Chaozhou Restaurant, and Tianjin Hong Kong Restaurant among the Cantonese restaurants (Guangdong flavor); Zhejiang Restaurant among the Zhejiang cuisine restaurants (Zhejiang flavor); Jinxiang among the Hunan cuisine restaurants (Hunan flavor) Restaurant; Jin-Min Restaurant in Fujian Restaurant (Fujian Style).

The food street not only brings together eight major cuisines across the country, but also includes its own genres of Tianjin-style cuisine, Shanxi-style cuisine, Shaoxing-style cuisine, Halal cuisine, foreign-flavored cuisine, palace cuisine, etc.

Among them, Tianjin-style restaurants include Jucheng Fanzhuang, Xian Deyue Fanzhuang, and Nanshi Goubuli Steamed Bun Shop (Goubuli steamed buns, Er Eryan Fried Cake, and Guifaxiang Mahua are also known as the "Three Wonders of Tianjin" and are famous at home and abroad.

The characteristics of Goubuli steamed buns are strict selection of ingredients, delicious taste, fat but not greasy. Before and after the Reform Movement of 1898, Yuan Shikai once presented Goubuli steamed buns as a tribute to the Empress Dowager Cixi), Jindong Seafood Restaurant; Shanxi-style restaurants include Jin.

Yang Restaurant; Shaoxing style restaurants include Xianxiang Hotel; Muslim restaurants (western style) include Muslim Huifanglou Restaurant and Muslim Enyicheng Restaurant; foreign style restaurants include Tianjin Qishilinnan Branch (Western Style), Tianjin Kobe

Restaurant (Japanese style), Yaxi Restaurant (Russian and French style); the palace imperial dining restaurants include Yushan Garden, Fangshanlou Restaurant, etc.

In addition to restaurants representing various cuisines, Nanshi Food Street also accommodates a wide variety of snacks from all over the country, with all kinds of flavors and tastes, both elegant and popular, suitable for all ages.