Hubu Alley
Breakfast alley: hot dry noodles, doupi and fried doughsticks.
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- 07:00-22:00
- Ticket
- free
- Suggested visit
- 1-2 hours
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
Why it's worth it
A 400-metre Ming-Qing lane that became Wuhan's breakfast legend — the narrow street where doupi (rice-and-egg parcels fried on iron plates), re gan mian and egg wine were standardised into the 'guozao' breakfast culture the city runs on.
Don't miss
- Doupi made on the metre-wide iron pans — rice, egg, minced meat, crisp edges
- A breakfast crawl: one bowl of hot dry noodles, one triangle of doupi, sweet egg wine to finish
- The lane's carved gates and the old bank facades it takes its name from
Getting there
Metro Line 5 to Simenkou, then 10 minutes' walk towards the river; the alley opens off Minzhu Road.
Tips
- Come 7-9am — this is a breakfast street running on breakfast hours
- It's renovated and tourist-branded now; the grills and pans still do real volume for locals
- Walk down to the river ferry afterwards — the cross-river boat is the cheapest cruise in China
Photos
More in Wuhan
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The most-quoted tower in Chinese poetry, overlooking the Yangtze.
- East Lake
Six times the size of West Lake; greenways, cherry trees and lakeside cycling.
- Hubei Provincial Museum
Home of the 2,400-year-old bells of Marquis Yi of Zeng.
- Yellow Crane Tower Park
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- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
Completed in 1957 as the "First Bridge over the Ten-Thousand-Li Yangtze" (Soviet-assisted design, road-rail dual use); "A flying bridge spans north and south, turning the natural moat into a thoroughfare" (Mao Zedong's ci poem)
- Qingchuan Pavilion
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