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, ..."