Singapore
Browse more than 400,000 titles in Singapore’s largest, most comprehensive bookshop. It also stocks stationery, DVDs and collectable toys.
Singapore
Browse more than 400,000 titles in Singapore’s largest, most comprehensive bookshop. It also stocks stationery, DVDs and collectable toys.
New Delhi
Gorgeous little boutique with a calm, no-pressure-to-buy ambience, attractive Indian clothing, and light, bright printed-cotton homewares.
Mumbai (Bombay)
Championing a dying art, this fascinating shop sells handmade, cotton-based paper crafted into charming cards, sculptures and lampshades.
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
High-end natural beauty products, including potions and lotions for hair, face and body as well as all-organic ayurvedic essential oils.
Dushanbe
This attractive gallery is stocked with tasteful modern crafts, including hand-painted ceramic plates, wooden boxes and woollen items.
Hampi
Excellent selection of books on Hampi and India, plus secondhand fiction. The owner offers a free Hampi map and sells postcards, too.
Kandy
Fair-trade textiles, clothing (including saris, sarongs and shirts) and jewellery made of recycled fabric, paper and other materials.
Hyderabad
An upmarket mall with a good selection of clothes shops including M&S and Levi's, ATMs, a small food court, cafes and a cinema.
Mumbai (Bombay)
Anokhi gets the East–West balance just right, with men’s and women’s clothes and bedding in block-printed silk and cotton.
Gwangju
Voted Korea's best traditional market, sprawling Yangdong sells just about everything, from traditional medicines to clothing.
Pune
Sells Indian saris, silks and cottons, as well as linen shirts for men, and diverse accessories including bags and jewellery.
Gokarna
A fine selection of natural beauty products, including handmade soaps, health foods, tea and spices. Prices are very fair.
Karnataka
Fair-trade shop selling handwoven textiles, banana-fibre products and other crafts made in and around Anegundi village.
Delhi
Flagship Fabindia store, with cotton kurtas, textiles for the home, and much more. Fairly expensive, but good value.
George Town
The nonfiction branch of this excellent bookshop, specialising in books about Malaysia or by Malaysian writers.
Bishkek
Stylishly presented, high-quality embroidery and pottery, both modern and traditional. Credit cards accepted.
Seminyak
Luxe clothes and little frilly things to put on before slipping off… Designed in Bali by a French couple.
Seminyak
Selling mostly Bali-made items, this designer shop combines international allure with local motifs.
Delhi
Kama is the place for exquisitely packaged ayurvedic remedies that make excellent presents.
Kathmandu
The best collection of Tibet-related titles, once owned by the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Mumbai (Bombay)
The beautiful traditional printed papers here will make you start writing letters.
Roppongi, Akasaka & Around
This sleek complex, where escalators ascend alongside waterfalls of rock and glass, brims with sophisticated shops. Most notable is the selection of…
Melaka City
Food hawkers, trinket sellers and fortune-tellers line Jln Hang Jebat for Melaka City's weekly extravaganza of street food and shopping. The street closes…
Siem Reap
When it comes to shopping in town, Psar Chaa is well stocked with anything you may want, and lots that you don’t. Silverware, silk, wood carvings, stone…
Kuching
The row of old shophouses facing the Waterfront Promenade is chock-full of handicrafts shops, some outfitted like art galleries, others with more of a …
Ho Chi Minh City
Ben Thanh and its surrounding streets comprise one of HCMC's liveliest areas. Everything that’s commonly eaten, worn or used by the Saigonese is piled…
Gangnam & Southern Seoul
The second location of the first sex shop in South Korea designed for women, Pleasure Lab does its best to make sure that women feel safe to ask any…
Mumbai (Bombay)
Mangaldas Market, traditionally home to traders from Gujarat, is a minitown, complete with lanes of fabrics – hip No-Mad Fabric Shop has even corralled a…
Shinjuku & Northwest Tokyo
A long-time lifeline for Tokyo English-speakers, Kinokuniya stocks a broad selection of foreign-language books and magazines. Particularly of note is its…
Ginza & Tsukiji
Stop any Tokyoite on the street and odds are they're wearing at least one thing from Uniqlo, the ubiquitous retailer of indispensible basics. There are…
Temple of Heaven Park & Dongcheng South
Occupying a swish, purpose-built mall beside the Temple of Heaven's east gate, the Pearl Market is palpably less hectic than the more famous Silk Street,…
Melaka City
It's impossible to miss the giant orangutan mural above artist Charles Cham's gallery and T-shirt store. His colourful, primitive-style paintings sell for…
Gangnam & Southern Seoul
One of Seoul's most luxurious department stores. If you want to play Audrey Hepburn staring wistfully into Tiffany’s, don a Helen Kaminski hat, try on a…
Mumbai (Bombay)
Crawford Market is the largest in Mumbai, and contains the last whiff of British Bombay before the tumult of the central bazaars begins. Bas-reliefs by…
Shibuya & Shimo-Kitazawa
Designer Natsuki Shigeta creates yukata (cotton kimonos) with a punk-rock slant (and sometimes outré prints). Nevermind if you can't tie the obi (sash)…
Phuket Town
With a street-art vibe reminiscent of pre-boom Brooklyn or East London, this wide-open cooperative is by far the standout gallery in a town full of them…
Bangkok
The emphasis at this night market is on the retro, from vintage clothes to kitschy antiques. With stalls and food trucks, van-based bars, land-bound pubs…
Singapore
Visitors looking for a tattoo shop with a definite pedigree should know about this place, for it's here that you'll be able to get exquisite work from…
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