Hostel in Hutong

It’s the hostel that I liked the most in Beijing. It was located in a hutong. Hutong actually means a "narrow street" or something to that effect, the point being that it’s a small side passageway. The houses located in the hutongs tend to be built around the open-courtyard plan. There may be one to four families living around the same courtyard in a building. They may or may not have plumbing. Normally, they’ll have electricity. The hutong is not the rich part of town. There is a lot of political controversy in Beijing as the government is trying to do a wholesale replacement of the hutong with more modern housing such as high-rises.