Wangfujing Snack Street

Plan your Beijing tour? Among the numerous outdoor activities in Beijing, a stroll on Wangfujing Pedestrian Street is a unique and fruitful experience for those visiting Beijing for the first time.

Check out Wangfujing Street, a famous pedestrian street in Beijing and An Old Photo of Wangfujing Street for more information on Wangfujing Street.

The 810-meter walking street is packed with shops, stores,and restaurants including several big shopping malls, such Oriental Plaza, Beijing Department Store, Sun Dong An Plaza, the New China Woman and Children Department etc. It also has two large bookstores – the Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore and the Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore.

One of the highlights about Wangfujing Street is Wangfujing Snack Street (王府井小吃街）which is set on a narrow alley off the main walking street. Now just follow me to have a glimpse of Wangfujing Snack Street.

How to get to Wangfujing Snack Street

Take subway line 2, get off at the station of Wangfujing and use Exit C. Follow the throng into the Wangfujing Pedestrian Street.

Walking north for about 50 meters, you will see a KFC on your right side, and opposite the KFC is a decorated archway, the east entrance to Wangfujing Snack Street.

The Paifang , a decorated archway, is the east entrance to Wangfujing Snack Street. People are going in and out.

The snack street is packed with food vendors, souveniors stands, and candy shops. — The Paifang , a decorated archway, is the east entrance to Wangfujing Snack Street.

The snack street is packed with food vendors, souvenirs stands, and candy shops. There are also the arrays of weird food on offer, scorpions, bugs with legs, bugs without legs.

The skewered scorpions, sea horses and star fishes attract passing visitors to take pictures. Few people would stop and taste the weird food.