About
China Street Eats is an independent publication exploring Chinese city street food through color, typography, and story. Our core belief: One city, one color, one flavor — every city has its own unique color, and irreplaceable flavor.
We cover 130+ cities and 550+ regional snacks across China, from Beijing roast duck to Chengdu hot pot, from Lanzhou beef noodles to Guangzhou dim sum. Each city is assigned a visual identity drawn from the Traditional Colors of China palette — 384 historically documented colors compiled by Guo Hao and Li Jianming from ancient Chinese texts and Forbidden City artifacts.
Color System
City color data references the Chinese traditional color system (Guo Hao, Traditional Colors of China: Color Aesthetics of the Forbidden City), municipal color planning documents, and research by the China Academy of Art Color Research Institute (Song Jianming team). Each province on the map is colored with its own traditional Chinese color.
Data Sources
Snack data comes from field research, local gazetteers, and public culinary literature. Tech news is aggregated via RSS from 36Kr and other sources, refreshed every 2 days. Province boundary data sourced from public GeoJSON datasets.
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Colors
Technology
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Contact
This is a community-driven project. Contributions and corrections are welcome. Find the source on GitHub or reach out via email.