Hong Kong
An understated boutique offering Hong Kong–made leather goods – handbags and wallets, mostly – in classic designs. All items except a few imported…
Must-see shopping in China
Sichuan
A comprehensive supermarket with a wide selection, and a decent range of ingredients for hiking trips as well. A separate camping/outdoors store just past…
Lhasa
Located near the Muslim quarter, this Tibetan-run Nepali shop sells everything from imported muesli and digestive biscuits to Indian spices, sun cream and…
Lhasa
This convenient branch of Lhasa's best handicraft's shop doesn't have the selection of the main outlet but is good on stylish pillows, children's toys and…
Harbin
The best bargains in Harbin are found on the 11 floors of this indoor market. Clothes and souvenirs are on the first couple of levels, with the 4th floor…
Hong Kong
Tea-making accoutrements and carefully chosen teas of various ages and grades are available here, from gunpowder to Nanyan Ti Guan Yin Crown Grade –…
Kunming
This place offers most types of teas grown in Yunnan, including the famed pǔ’ěr tea, and there are sometimes English-speaking staff available to help…
Shanghai
This tea shop has a good collection of pǔ'ěr cakes (aged fermented tea from Yunnan), as well as loose-leaf oolong, white and herbal teas. The backroom…
Lhasa
Boasts a wide range of foodstuffs from frozen squid to ripe pineapples to a bewildering array of dried yak meat. The upper floor contains one of Lhasa's…
Shanghai
Always busy, this gargantuan shopping mall is also ultrahandy for its dining options, its supermarket in the basement, a kids’ arcade on the 6th floor and…
Shanghai
Local style mavens XinleLu.com have ventured into the offline world with this original showroom, displaying the best of their hand-picked bags, shoes and…
Qingdao
The city's snazziest shopping mall has all your retail cravings covered, plus an ice rink, a cinema, an indoor theme park and a rooftop garden. Right…
Tianjin
Best visited on Sunday, this antiques market is great for rifling through stamps, silverware, porcelain, clocks, Mao badges and Cultural Revolution…
Chaozhou Opera Costumes & Props
Guangdong
Diagonally across the road from Kaiyuan Temple is this tiny shop that makes gowns, headdresses, swords, sedans and shoes for the Chaozhou opera stage.
Chengdu
This French-owned chain has a huge selection of outdoor equipment and sporting goods. It's about 10 minutes' walk south of the South train station.
Beijing
The custom-made, mid-century-style furniture at this gorgeous store won't fit in your suitcase, but the accessories, dinnerware and towels will.
Guilin
This local flea market has everything from electronics to vintage magazines, calligraphy brushes, dogs and, of course, birds and flowers.
Qingdao
A four-storey bargain bonanza north of Old Town, with pearls, clothing, shoes, backpacks, jade, wigs – all for the haggling.
Shanghai Old City
Having silk shirts, dresses and cashmere coats tailor-made for a song is one of Shanghai’s great indulgences. This three-storey building, one of several…
Beijing
This ever-expanding shopping mall stretches far and wide below Guomao and the China World Hotel, a gleaming maze of luxury brands, boutiques, jewellery…
Beijing
Whether or not you're a scholar of Chinese, this enticing shop is worth a browse for its cabinets of dusty tomes on art and religion, collections of stone…
Beijing
An avenue of art shops, antiques and booksellers since the Qing dynasty, leafy Liulichang is a tourist favourite that's worth delving into for its…
Beijing
Buying new spectacles probably isn't high up on your Beijing bucket list, but when you can get your eyes tested and lenses cut in about 40 minutes (for…
Beijing
Set up for wholesalers, Maliandao is a nondescript commercial district home to if not all the tea in China, then an awful lot of it. For leaf-hunters…
Beijing
Peddling pills and potions here since 1702, this traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) shop became a royal dispensary during the Qing dynasty. Today the…
Beijing
So named for its yesteryear trade in pipes and the demon weed (that's tobacco, not opium), 'Tobacco Pouch Lane' is a short, crooked alley of touristy…
Beijing
This department store of traditional arts specialises in wénfáng sì bǎo (文房四宝), the 'four treasures of study', namely brushes, ink, paper and inkstones…
Beijing
Arts-and-crafts fans will get a kick out of this shop selling traditional clay figurines. Shelves are lined with 'rabbit gods' (兔儿爷; tùéryé), a folk…
Hong Kong
This luxurious shopping mall boasts 200 high-fashion boutiques linking the One and Two IFC towers and the Four Seasons Hotel. Outlets include Gucci,…
Hong Kong
This elegant space showcases mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and Asian, as well as European, contemporary art – mostly paintings and sculptures. The owner,…
Beijing
A good place to stock your suitcase with China's finest if staying in the Gulou area, this tea shop is run by a couple from Fujian, China's tea heartland…
Hong Kong
The two narrow, crowded alleyways linking Des Voeux Rd Central with Queen's Rd Central are called 'the lanes' by Hong Kong residents, and were…
Shanghai
Set in the M50 complex, this simple photography gallery shares a space with Osoi Design and sells abstract photos. Many present close-ups of the…
Hong Kong
This boutique fashion and beauty department store is a good choice if you're short of time rather than money. Comme des Garçons, Chloé and Alexander…
Shanghai Old City
There’s a permanent antique market here on the 1st and 2nd floors, but the place really gets humming for the Ghost Market on Sunday at dawn, when sellers…
Tong Han Chun Traditional Medicine Store
Shanghai Old City
An intriguing emporium of elixirs, infusions and remedies, this place has been selling Chinese medicinal cures since 1783. There’s a vast range here,…
Xi'an
Serious shoppers can visit the Northwest Antique Market, by Zhongshan Gate. This three-storey warren of shops selling jade, seals, antiques and Mao…
Macau
Fine gems and high-end costume jewellery by a local designer on the 2nd floor of A Porta da Art. Styles are feminine and elegant, fitting occasions from…
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