Chongqing may just be the largest city you've never heard of. However, if you're a fan of Chinese food, you've undoubtedly eaten its cuisine. Chongqing is a sprawling metropolis the size of Austria, with a population of over 30 million people, and it served as the wartime capital of China during the war with Japan.
This is the heart of numbing hot (麻辣) cuisine, using both the Sichuan pepper and the chili pepper in its dishes, often quite liberally. Once you get past that, the food is just phenomenal as you can see some hints of below.
Aside from the massive population and spicy food, the city is home to some unique architecture, including the massive mixed use Raffles City Chongqing complex that out-MBSs Singapore (ironically designed by the same architect, Moshe Safdie and developed by Singapore), and a public transit train that actually goes through a building (video below).
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