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Wangfujing Street: Wangfujing Street, Most famous shopping street
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  • Name of Shop: There are many shops along side Wangfujing Street

    Wangfujing, a seven hundred-year-old commercial street, houses a wide variety of shops and boutiques where you can find all kinds of commodities, some of which are of world-famous brands. The Oriental Plaza (Dongfang Guangchang) is the biggest store in Wangfujing.

    Besides modern department stores, the Foreign Language Bookstore is also in this area. The Old-Beijing-Street is now seated underground, which was built and decorated in Ming and Qing style. The outstanding characteristic of it is the centralized well-known longstanding stores selling shoes, caps, silk cloth, scissors, Chinese brushes and ink-stick, jade articles, tea, desserts, pickled vegetables, roast ducks and so on.

    The most popular sites for souvenir photos are the sculptures on both street sides, reflecting life of old Beijing.

    What To Buy: various kind goods you can buy here. because Wangfujing is a long street, that houses many shops.


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    Theme: Department Store
    Address: at the east side of the famous hotel,Beijing Hotel
    Directions: located to the east of Tiananmen Square and stretches from Chinese Art Gallery to the Dongchan'an Avenue
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    Hongqiao Market (Pearl Market): Best place to buy Souvenirs
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  • Name of Shop: Hongqiao Market (meaning: Red Bridge Market)

    The Red Bridge Market is a very big store for the tourist to buy souvenir, antiques, and other interesting stuff. Even the local resident like to go shopping here. The former president of US, Bill Clinton, visited the market when visiting China.

    What To Buy: souvenir, antique, silk, pearl

    What To Pay: It depends what you buy. My advice: when you bargain, offer at least 50% discount when buy antiques.

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    Theme: Antiques
    Address: Just near the east gate of Temple of Heaven
    Directions: when you get out of the Temple of Heaven from the east gate, look to your left-front side, you will see the red bridge market, a 5-floor building.
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    Zhong Guan Cun Street: the best street to buy computers and electronics
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  • Name of Shop: Zhong Guan Cun Street

    The Zhong Guan Cun Street is the most famous street, which houses hundreds computer stores. Most of the computer parts sold there are made in China, and have a low price with good quality. If you want buy a computer or computer periphery fittings, the street should be your first and last choise.

    What To Buy: computer and computer related electronics, periphery fittings, hardware

    What To Pay: It depends. due to the low profit on pc hardware, it's very difficult to bargain. If you lucky, you can get a 95% or even 90% discount.

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    Theme: Computers and Electronics
    Address: Northwest corner on Beijing city map
    Directions: it's a long street, the famous universities, Beijing University and Tsinghua university, China people's university, and the Friendship Hotel located alongside it.
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    Silk Market: Silk Alley
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  • Name of Shop: Xiushuidongjie

    Silk Alley lies in Xiushuidong Jie off Jianguomenwai Dajie, near US Embassy. It is a good place to buy cheaper goods and the resident foreigners in Beijing come here frequently. Whatever you want to buy, like bags, shoes, handicrafts or sweaters, you can bargain with the owners.

    What To Buy: bags, shoes, handicrafts, sweaters, etc

    What To Pay: good place to bargain

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    Theme: Women's Clothes
    Address: North of Jiangguomenwai Dajie
    Directions: about 1km east of Friendship Store
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    Comments for honestjohn about Beijing
    lukluk_wal_marjan Thu Jan 17, 2008 06:29 UTC
     Hi Jack! Me & hubby is visiting Beijing in May. Most likely will be nedding your honest expert tips on how to go about on our own. Till then have a great New Year - the Gregorian as well as CNY soon.
    jenaikes Tue Jan 17, 2006 18:27 UTC
     Thanks for your Beijing pages! I'll be visiting in March 2006 : ) Jennifer
    Shixitong Tue Oct 11, 2005 13:40 UTC
     I've just come back from Beijing and tried Quanjude's new place at Wangfujing Avenue. Same food quality, but not so crowded. But I can also recommend the place. Delicisious!!!
    blue_sky04 Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:34 UTC
     Nice tips on Beijing! Thanks for sharing. Hope to visit this place soon. Greetings from Indonesia
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