Xuzhou (徐州 Xúzhōu) is a city of 2.6 million (2010) in Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China. It is at the northern tip of the province, bordering Anhui.
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The first metro line (Line 1) opened in 2019. It runs from the east to the west of the city, and stops at both railway stations. Line 2 is due to open in October 2020, and Line 3 in June 2021. The urban buses are cheap, regular, and easy to figure out within the city. There are also minibuses that travel outside of the city to neighboring rural towns.
Walk the city and explore the old downtown neighborhoods. Narrow alleys and old 小区 (xiao qu) give access to hundred year old wet markets neighboring temporary encampments of migrant workers and traveling farmers, one room restaurants without menus (don't worry, they'll tell you what they've got, or you can glance at other tables), dog meat butchers, public toilets, backstreet whorehouses with eerie blue lights, arcades in scavenged brick huts with corrugated tin roofs. Then, walk along the New Yellow River, a diverted portion of the river created by the floods of 1938, when Nationalist forces bombed dykes to stymie the Japanese (instead, they succeeded only in killing millions of their own c…
Xuzhou Concert Hall (徐州音乐厅), No. 7 Binhu Park, Quanshan District, ☏ +86 516 8561-3988. (updated Jan 2018)
Diguo ji (地锅鸡) is a savoury combination of chicken, chillies and bread. It is exactly chicken cooked à la diguo which was a popular cookery among the fisherfolk of the Weishan Lake. They used a cauldron to boil the fish, and put the squashed doughs around the cauldron inside, thus they could have fish with bread. Now you can order its chicken version in most local restaurants. The half-singed bread is essential in this dish (or it would be common braised chicken). Dip it into the broth, which is the traditional thing to do. Dog meat tacos on Heqing Lu, between Pengcheng Lu and Jie Fang Lu. There are two alleys leading off from Heqing Lu and you want the one closest to Pengcheng Lu.
1 No.99 Bar. A bar in the Hubu Hill area, part of the cluster of nightlife venues on and around the pedestrian street near the hill. 2 Britain Bar. A British-themed bar, one of several Western-styled venues in central Xuzhou.
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In Aug, Xuzhou typically sees ~32°C daytime highs and 17 rainy days.
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