Plan your visit
- City Chongqing
- Area Jiulongpo District
- Nearest Subway Line 18 (Huangjueping Station)
- Vibe Cafe, Photospots
- Crowded High (Popular with tourists and local regulars)
- Price 10 RMB / person
- Suggested time 1.5h
About this place
An old teahouse that time seems to have passed over entirely, where dark-tiled roofs, paint-peeled wooden columns and benches polished smooth by decades of use form a living tableau of 1970s Chongqing street life.
Drifter says
"No coffee here — only gaiwan laoyin tea. Coffee didn't reach mainstream China until the 1990s; this place stopped its clock well before that. Ten yuan gets you a cup and an entire afternoon. The smoke-filled light and ambient dialect chatter draw plenty of visitors with cameras, but the ones who actually sit down and drink the tea are the ones who understand what this place is about."
