Well, it does look shitty, but it’s the home of the ChongQing hotpot – a wonderfully fiery creation that will strip the interior lining of your mouth right out.
It sits in a steep valley carved out by the Yangtse and due to its position is perpetually shrouded in mist. The local joke is that if ever the clouds part and the sun shines, all the dogs start barking at the sight of it.
It was briefly the capital of China as the government retreated from the Japanese in WW2 – and suffered horrible air raids as a result. During one of the mad and manic retreats to get there a cardboard box was abandoned by the side of the road, never to be seen again. And so was lost the remains of pekin man, a loss to humanity and science.