Yide Road Dried Goods

Yide Road is Guangzhou's great sensory corridor: dried scallops the size of palms, gold-dusted hams, box after box of century eggs, and herbs by the sack, spilling from warehouses that supply restaurants across China.

Nothing is packaged for tourists, which is exactly the point. Ask for samples, buy a few dried scallops for a soup you will make at home, and photograph the chaos - it is disappearing fast.