Snack joints and crafts shops are everywhere, and uniformed tricycle bikers line the streets offering narrated tours of the famous Beijing hutong.

连锁快餐店和工艺店到处都有，穿制服的三轮车者在沿街排开，用叙述的方式带你游览著名的北京胡同。

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Beijing Hutong in the end how many of them around?

北京到底有多少左右胡同呢？

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The tour guide was very accommodating when we asked to see a Beijing Hutong. ?

（当我们要求游览北京胡同一时间，那个导游欣然答应。）?。

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The article 'Hutong alleyways: Old Beijing at its timeless best' was published in partnership with Lonely Planet.

BBC: Old Beijing at its timeless best

Countless "hutong, " as Beijing's traditional courtyard housing is called, have been knocked down and replaced by skyscrapers, shopping malls and apartment buildings.

CNN: April 10, 2012 -- Updated 1353 GMT (2153 HKT)

Beijing's planners say that the hutong neighbourhoods are too dilapidated to renew and too narrow to be modernised with gas, water and sewerage systems.

ECONOMIST: China��s Communist modernisers are wrecking the capital