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node: spot_chengdu_jinli
type: spot
slug: jinli
destination: dest_chengdu
title: "Jinli"
lead: "Jinli is the reconstructed Qing-style street beside Wuhou Shrine, 550 metres of tiled roofs, snack stalls and teahouses. It is a rebuild, not an old quarter, and it is the easiest place in Chengdu to eat your way through Sichuan street food."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_chengdu_jinli.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chengdu_Jinli-Stra%C3%9Fe_11.jpg"
image_author: "Zairon"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## Overview

The name goes back to a Han-dynasty brocade market on this ground, but everything standing was built in 2004. The lane is deliberately dense: lanterns overhead, bars at the west end, and a small stage for Sichuan opera face-changing. It is crowded every evening and worth accepting on those terms.

## Highlights

Eat here rather than sit down for a meal — dandan noodles, sanda pao, spicy rabbit head for the brave. The teahouse courtyard is where the pace drops, and the face-changing show runs several times a night. Go at dusk, when the lanterns come on and before the evening peak.