Beijing's Wangfujing street has been a bustling market street even since Ming dynasty times (the second to the last one, and my favourite since it's founder was a lowly worker a buddhist monastery). Nowadays, it's got the famous Wangfujing Bookstore, the Beijing Department Store, silk shops, the famous Dong Lai hot pot, & the Donghuamen Night Market (just off the street), Wangfujing Cathedral and various tourist stuff.
Wangfujing has its own stop on line 1.
One of the best things to see off of Wangfujing street is the Donghuamen Night Market, where you can buy scorpions among other things:
They're still wiggling!
Entrance to the market:
Inside the market you see lots of more touristy type things.
Cicadas are also for sale, but I only eat them on a 17 year cycle, being from North America.
Star-fish are also for sale.
Various meat sticks for the less adventurous.
And the pinnacle of tourist foods in Wangfujing, the almighty scorpion.
American-Chinese tourists frequent the area.
You can also buy various touristy things like this hat. The upside down characters, 中国，represent the central country.
Got to get a magic mask!
Statues at the end of the street celebrate the children who make shoes in Chinese factories.
I thought this was the shoe place where I bought some slippers... But this is the Muslim Dong-Lai hot pot place*:
They also have famous Chinese department stores:
Inside they sell ridiculous things:
*Thanks to Alex1912 on Reddit for correcting my mistakes!
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