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Sweet Potatoes Go Gourmet, Spelling Out Dirty Bar Street's Demise Once and For All | the Beijinger

Sweet Potatoes Go Gourmet, Spelling Out Dirty Bar Street's Demise Once and For All | the Beijinger: As if it weren’t enough for Dirty Bar Street to be beautified, with nearly every sleazy bar and questionable street hawker whisked away since Bejing began its Great Brickening campaign in earnest last year, the once debaucherous alley has now hit the nadir of gentrification.


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