Walk the city and explore the old downtown neighborhoods. Narrow alleys and old å°åº xiao qu give access to hundred year old wet markets neighboring temporary encampments of migrant workers and traveling farmers, one room restaurants without menus don't worry, they'll tell you what they've got, or you can glance at other tables, dog meat butchers, public toilets, backstreet whorehouses with eerie blue lights, arcades in scavenged brick huts with corrugated tin roofs.
Then, walk along the New Yellow River, a diverted portion of the river created by the floods of 1938, when Nationalist forces bombed dykes to stymie the Japanese instead, they succeeded only in killing millions of their own country's farmers. You can have your fortune told, buy most kinds of medications that are prescription-only in Western countries and raw tobacco, get something good to eat, and catch small traveling musicians performing on traditional instruments.
After that, stroll into the downtown, identical in every Chinese city of this size, home to a KFC, department stores, and massive, empty squares.
