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When I visited Chengdu, I couldn't
help feeling that it was nothing like I'd been promised. Chengdu is supposed
to be a lazy town of diehard tea drinkers - perhaps it once was, but it
seems to me that Chengdu is now as much of a frenetic, entrepreneurial
city as any other of China's major centres. That's not to say that the
quieter, traditional parts of town are not still there, it's just that
Chengdu is outgrowing its salad days and getting on with the Chinese programme
of economic reforms in line with the times. Chengdu can be fun, and if
you love chillies and tongue-numbing mala oils, it's paradise, but
if you are looking for the old capital of tea-sipping layabouts, that time
is gone.
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