Travel Destinations - China - Chengdu

Chengdu: Fire it Up

The citizens of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province are fuelled by a diet of hot tea and ultra-spicy food. Richard Shaw enters the Heavenly Kingdom and prepares to indulge.

The people of Chengdu have long been labelled lazy. To this accusation they lean back in their bamboo chairs, take a take a leisurely sip of tea and smile. As their entrepreneurial countrymen along the Eastern coast toil ambitiously, the Sichuanese enjoy a much slower pace of life. After all, [ read more ]