The 1,800-metre long street running from Canglang Pagoda to Sanyuan Fang near the downtown shopping mall boasts one elegant garden, 14 bridges and a 1,000- ears of history. Here, history and modern lives, wines and teas live in harmony. "Compared with pub streets like Sanlitun in Beijing and Hengshan Lu in Shanghai, Shiquan Road is a better balance of Western culture and Oriental taste." "I love the street and its uniqueness," said Tang, who used to run a bar on Hengshan Road in Shanghai. "You can have an exciting dance party in a bar before heading off to a tea house to relax your body.
There are Chinese and expats, bars and tea houses, good whisky from Scotland and green tea from Taihu Lake," said Tang Liangliang, manager of a Western Street bar. In-house dance music was blasting from bars and pubs with girls greeting customers at the front doors Chinese music played on erhu and pipa emanated from tea houses. Girls speaking in gentle Suzhou dialect with mellow voices laughed on the sidewalk outside the Pulp Fiction bar smartly dressed men wandered along the creek and quiet groups of expats wearing hats window-shopped outside silk and souvenir shops.
They were emerging from the high-reaching plazas and offices to soak in the city's energetic nightlife that swarms with Western-style bars and oriental tea houses. On a Friday afternoon, Shiquan Street in downtown Suzhou was packed with people speaking Cantonese, Suzhou dialect, English, even German.
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