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Bengbu (Chinese: 蚌埠; pinyin: Bèngbù; Wade-Giles: P'engpu;; literally "Clam Wharf" or "Oyster Quay"; often incorrectly pronounced Bengfu or Bangbu; other spellings: P'engpu, or Peng-pu) is a prefecture-level city with a population of 3,469,700 (including rural area) in northern Anhui province, People's Republic of China.

Get in

The city is on the Jinghu Railway, with hourly direct trains to Beijing, Shanghai and other large cities.

Get around

Taxis start at ¥5 for 2.5KM, and ¥1.2 per KM after that.

See

Do

Buy

Eat

A local specialty is river crayfish cooked with lots of spices. There is a whole block near the center of town that consists mainly of restaurants serving this and other dishes. Turn right at the end of that block, there is a nice small trendy restaurant on the right. Specialties are ice cream and Japanese/Taiwan style light meals. The jiaozi are excellent.

Drink

Sleep

Get out

Routes through Bengbu

Beijing ← Xuzhou ←

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→ Nanjing → Shanghai