The small eastern city of Zibo in Shandong province is experiencing an outdoor barbecue craze.
People from all over China are coming here to taste its lamb skewers, which have become legendary via social media.
It’s quite a raucous experience and certainly not for the faint-hearted.
The street is packed, you sit on little plastic chairs, drink beer and wrap chunks of meat with spring onion on the local flatbread while karaoke songs pump out in all directions.
On the face of it, these crowds appear to show an economy rebounding strongly from the coronavirus emergency – but according to economists that’s not the case.