Chungking
Britishnoun
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One of Tsang’s tours visits the city’s famed Chungking Mansions, a labyrinthine complex with ethnic restaurants, guesthouses and stores selling everything from cheap phones to burqas.
From Reuters ● Sep. 10, 2021
One movie I've wanted to rewatch for years, Chungking Express, is only available on DVD and Blu-ray, and the Blu-ray discs are out of print and currently selling used on Amazon for over $100.
From The Verge ● Aug. 27, 2016
Let us contemplate for a moment the phenomenon of la zi ji, the known in Sichuan-style restaurants as spicy fried chicken, Chungking fried chicken, Chongqing spicy chicken, chicken with chilies, or spicy diced chicken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2016
By the time General Stilwell was recalled to the United States in the fall of 1944, he grumbled that Washington was “as big a pile of manure as Chungking was.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2016
How much simpler life had been in Chungking, when all she had had to do was lift Precious Coins’ legs over a chamber pot.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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