A cook lifting the lid off a tall stack of bamboo steamers in a Chongqing kitchen
Customers waiting at the counter of a busy Chongqing noodle shop
Rows of small bowls lined up on a restaurant counter
A cook reaching over dozens of small dishes and stacked bowls
A road curving around an apartment block, with a yellow taxi rounding the bend
A red cable car crossing the river between apartment towers
A red cable car passing in front of the Chongqing skyline
A porter carrying loads on a bamboo pole down a stairway between old buildings
A monorail train emerging between high-rise towers and green hills
Looking down at blue bridge piers and green river water from above

重庆, Chongqing

A city where even the plates stack up.

Chongqing is built in layers. Roads curl around apartment blocks, cable cars glide over the river between the towers, the monorail threads through the hills, and porters still carry loads through the stairways on bamboo poles. In the kitchens it’s the same idea.

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