Modern folks are accustomed to high-rise structures and large roads. The winding and deep hutongs, on the other hand, and the pleasant and attractive courtyards are more appealing to explore.

Young people refer to Wudaoying Hutong as "the most artistic hutong." The hutong is only five or six hundred meters long, yet it is congested during the day and too crowded to leave on holidays. And the night is time to reveal this hutong's soul.

A little hutong unites young people to eat, drink, and play while also forming a spiritual tribe for a small number of people.

Tavern

Just within the hutong, on the left-hand side, there is a fork in the road; take that branch to find a tavern. Sitting outside in groups of twos and threes, ordering a few beers and food, conversing, planning for the future, and being ambitious. The cocktails at the Siren Bar are delicious! The second-floor open-air terrace is ideal for socializing with friends. You can also feel life by sitting on the soft collapse near the entrance and watching people come and go.

Late Night Eatery

This restaurant is known as "Zhaofu," and it serves a popular ice cream that sells 100,000 pieces of white rabbit milk candy each year. It is also a late-night eatery serving Hakata pork bone ramen, a Japanese specialty. You can eat here while immersed in the ambiance of Japanese dramas.

Small handmade stores

I enjoy this type of handcrafted store because it is little but cozy. It is most likely due to the owner's meticulous maintenance. To get around the home, you must first walk on the mossy stone floor and then turn three corners. Come in and be drawn in by the modest and exquisite furnishings, wandering slowly as if time has stopped. Linen garments, old-fashioned needlework storage baskets, blue and white flowers on the table...... it's all so familiar, so sweet, as if transported back to childhood. Perhaps more polished pieces will be seen, as coarse pottery items are now showing a lot of interest in this. Although it is referred to as coarse pottery, the rustic coarse is not lacking in attention to detail. It is not as delicate as porcelain, nor can it be compared to alabaster, but this archaic ungainly allows people to return to their roots.

Zen Tea One Taste

Because it is closer to the Lama Temple, the tea store with Zen as the motif—it regards the past as tea and encourages its customers to forget about the past and live in today. This store and the original 3D animation "A Small Monk" cross-border, the store design also continues the animation of the warm wind. The wall of inspirational words may provide peace to the confused people's souls. On the roadside, there are lotus vendors waiting for buyers, middle-aged individuals doing small business on other people's steps, and visitors who are tired of walking and sit outside the store to rest their feet; here, you can witness the truth of life, the city's hundred states.

Each store is worth a visit, and as you step in, you'll be curious about the owners of these modest businesses. Each store has its unique features, as if to carve out a small world, corner of the world, precipitating beauty in this materialistic world.

Translated by LUO Xiongwei

Edited by LIU Yu