Beijing's Famed Street-Food Scene Struggles to Survive

The streets just south of Beijing's Tiananmen Square are an incongruous mix. Qianmen Street, which shoots straight south from Mao's Mausoleum and the Great Hall of the People, is a long-standing pedestrian thoroughfare lined with storefronts, now including a Häagen-Dazs ice cream shop and a Zara clothing store.