Originally Posted by
narvik
If you go outside the center, there's plenty of street food vendors like in the 'old days'.
I don't know. SLT isn't in the center, it had the best street food, and was effectively transformed into a shopping mall (or collection of malls, if you will). The inherent conflict is that Chinese regard malls as symbols of progress and street food as reminders of the less polished past, so it's difficult for street food to survive in cool areas long term.