November 20, 2024
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Wangfujing Night Food Street

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 Important Notice
Wangfujing Night Food Street is closed and not available now.  The food street is officially known as “Donghuamen Night Food Street”(东华门美食坊夜市).

If you still want to experience the local exotic snack food, you may go to Wangfujing Snack Street instead.
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If you ramble along Wangfujing Street  in the evening during your Beijing tour. it is advisable to visit its neighbouring Wangfujing Night Food Street.

Actually Wangfujing Night Food Street is formally called “Donghuamen Night Food Street”(东华门美食坊夜市), which is located on Donganmen Street linked to the west of the crossroad at the northern tip of Wangfujing Pedestrian Street.

If you want to visit a daytime food vendors street, you may go to Wangfujing Snack Street ( 王府井小吃街), which branches off  Wangfujing Pedestrian Street.  Check out Wangfujing Snack Street for more information.

Wangfujing Night Snack Street is often called by tourists while Donghuamen Night Snack Street by the local residents in Beijing. They both refer to the same night food market in Wangfujing area.

This 100-meter long snack street is open from 6:00pm to 9:00pm every day. The night market is home to about 100 stalls selling over 100 snacks from all over China. For adventurous dinners, it is a food paradise with such unique snacks as centipedes, lizards, deep fried crickets available to eat on a stick.

These stalls linked at a short interval are mainly composed of Beijing food, Shandong cuisine, Yunnan food, Canton food, sea food and etc. All the food stalls are well organized with strict hygiene requirement.

Each vendor wears clean uniforms with red caps. Each stall has a sign hanging overhead indicating the food they are selling, as well the name of the stall owner.

Since it is a typical street food, you have no table for sitting and eating. You are supposed to stand eating just before the food stalls. A protected line is set to separate the food stalls from the driving lane. So people feel quite safe eating with the protected line.

If you are not interested in the street food or timid to have a bite, it is still worth walking around and taking some pictures for a glimpse of the snacks coming for all a parts of China.The first stall sells Tanghulu, or sugar-coated haws or fruits on sticks

The first stall sells Tanghulu, or sugar-coated haws or fruits on sticks
The lady has bought a stick of Tanghulu.
The lady has bought a stick of Tanghulu.
The foreign tourists are curious about the snake meat.
The foreign tourists are curious about the snake meat.
Seafood and smelly bean curd
Seafood and smelly bean curd
barbeque corn
barbeque corns and more
Hippocampi on a stick
Hippocampi on a stick
Royal Crab
Royal Crabs
Roujiamuo, a Chinese hamburger
Roujiamuo, a Chinese hamburger
Sheep’s particular parts, offal soup
sheep’s particular parts, offal soup
Goubuli ( literally “dogs don’t pay attention”) is a famous brand of baozi from Tianjin.
Goubuli ( literally dogs don’t pay attention) is a famous brand of baozi from Tianjin
Jian Bing, a kind of thin pancakes with with meat and vegetable fillings
Jian Bing, a kind of thin pancakes with with meat and vegetable fillings
Fried Jiaozi
Fried Jiaozi
Muslim food – barbeques animal internal parts
Muslim food – barbeques animal internal parts
Roasted leg of lamb
Beijing local desserts
Beijing local desserts
Beijing local snacks
Beijing local snacks
Scorpions and more insects on sticks
Scorpions and more insects on sticks
Centipede and water beetles on sticks
centipede and water beetles on sticks
Sea food
Sea food
Red lanterns, signboards and clean stalls make an interesting tourist food street in Beijing
Red lanterns, signboards and clean stalls make an interesting tourist food street in Beijing
Each stall has a signboard overhead indicating the stuff to be sold with a pricelist

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12 thoughts on “Wangfujing Night Food Street”

  1. Has the food street been moved off of the main Wangfujing street? When I was there, I could not find the red stalls along the main street, like they used to be. The only stalls were on a small side street with a big sign overhead that said Donganmen Food Street. Is that where they are located now, or did I go to the wrong place?

  2. Hello Mystic，

    There are two snack streets in Wangfujing Street. One is off the main street (within the walking section of Wangfujing Street ) which is called Wangfujing Food Street ( 王府井小吃街). The entrance to Wangfujing Food Street is a traditional archway (Pailou) with the Chinese characters of 王府井小吃街overhead. But people would go to Wangfujing Food Street during the daytime though it is also open in the evening.

    For night food, people would go to “Donghuamen Night Food Street”(东华门美食坊夜市) which is popularly called Wangfujing Night Food Street. Wangfujing Night Food Street is located on Donganmen Street west of the crossroad at the north entrance to the walking section of Wangfujing Pedestrian Street. So Wangfujing Night Food Street is not within the walking section of the street. The a sign of “Donghuamen Night Food Street”(东华门美食坊夜市) stands on the ground at the east starting place of the itinerant vendor food street. You’ve got the right name, but not sure you got the right place.

  5. Hi Daniel,

    We plan to go to Donghuamen Night Food Street after a visit in Jingshan Park? Will it be too far to walk and which direction should I head to? Is Donghuamen street or Wangfujing street nearer to Jingshan Part?

    Thank you.

  6. Hi Yap,

    About 3 km and 40 minutes walk from Wangfujing to the south Gate to Jingshan. You just walk to the west direction and get to Nanchizi Dajie （南池子大街）， then walk to the north along Nanchizi Dajie which circles Forbidden City. At the end of Nanchizi Dajie, turn right, you will see the beautiful turret of Forbidden City. The south gate to Jingshan is just at the north of the north gate to Forbidden City. Enjoy your trip!

  7. Hi Daniel,
    Is it wort visiting Wangfujing Street during the day before dark? Are there food vendors in the afternoon?\
    thanks,
    Kris

  8. Hi Kris Nicholas,

    Sure, it is still interesting to visit Wanfujing during the day for people watch. There is a daytime food vendors street branching off the main Wanfujing Street. The back street is known as Wangfujing Snack Street (王府井小吃街）. Check out the following link for more information on Wangfujing Snack Street:

    http://www.tour-beijing.com/blog/beijing-travel/stroll-on-wangfujing-snack-street

    By the way, please check out Top 10 Tourist Scams before you explore Beijing on your own:

    http://www.tour-beijing.com/blog/china-travel/tourist-traps-in-china/top-10-tourist-scams-beijing

    Have a nice time in Beijing!

  12. Hi Peter,

    Roasted pig? Not here in Bejing. Popular in Guangzhou ( Canton ) in the soutern China.

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