Shanghai — Shopping Paradise

Shanghai Shopping Paradise

These compact, handy guides are packed with insider tips on where to find the most extremely pleasing fashions, the most distinctive gifts, and the best bargains on everything from antiques to housewares. Includes all the huge names, and a “Best of” chapter that pinpoints precisely where to find the finest. Also included is a handful of the author’s bestloved places to stay and eat.

From the Back Cover”Gershman’s may be the best guide for novice and pro shopper’s alike.” —Washington Post For more than ten years, Suzy Gershman has been leading savvy shoppers to the world’s best finds. Now Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing is more comprehensive and packed with more up-to-date listings than ever before. Inside you’ll find:

• What’s hot in Hong Kong, from hip new fashions and architect labels to porcelain, jade, and colorful markets
• The best of Shanghai, from the Old City to the stimulating new Pudong area
• Terrific buys in Beijing, from the Silk Market to the Pearl Market to the famous antiques street of Liulichang
• The best airfare, hotel, and dining values

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Most helpful client reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Of little value…
By Merv Lapin
The author hasn’t a clue as to how to negotiate with the Chinese and does not give the rectify warnings or prices. She is a “princess”. I just returned from my 31st trip to China. There is almost no silk or introductory merchandise at the Silk Market. However, it is a lot of fun. There is not a shirt or blouse there that can not be purchased for 30 yuan ($3.60). North Face knockoffs may be purchased for 130 yuan ($15.60) for their most costly long jacket. Pearls at the Hong Qiao (Pearl) Market are of very low quality. Most strands cost when it comes to 100 yuan ($12). Learn the divergence amidst salt water and fresh water pearls and how to tell the quality difference. Know how to tell if the pearls are bogus before you go there. The fourth floor stores are just a dissimilar form of selling pearls so don’t be slanged by their nicer western look. Remember that only the store knows their price – and they will only trade to you if they may make a profit. Always walk away after making an what you may consider an foolish offer and after you let them know that you in truth want to buy the item. Make them make at least two offers before you make your ludicrous offer. There is not kinship amongst their basi offfer and what the item is worth. All this takes a lot of time so be prepared. Comparison shop before buying. All stores carry the same items.

8 of 8 persons found the following review helpful.
So Disappointed!
By T Doolittle
Suzy’s Hong-Kong only book was wonderful. It commended specific shops, not just neighborhoods, for each type of good imaginable. It likewise gave fantastic hints like where not to bother looking if you wear a size on the upper end of the spectrum.

The new book including Shanghai and Beijing is next to worthless. All of the shop recommendations for HK have been ommited. Some of my favorites from “Born to Shop Hong Kong”, like Gemsland in the Mandarin Hotel, is worthy of to be noted as supplying aweinspiring service, outstanding quality and reasonable prices to each visitor planning on coming to HK.

I purchased the book in preparation for an upcoming trip to Shanghai. With the exception of the overview of the markets, very little else was of use. There are closely no local shop (non-department store) recommendations and suggestions for wholly random (and useless?) things like wedding photos. In fact it only gives buying goods suggestions for 9 categories- and included in that 9 are things like Drugstores. How are you going to Shop til You Drop in a drugstore?

Additionally, the index is horrible. There is a whole paragraph on the Hoabao Building in the Yu Gardens, but good luck finding any reference to it in the index. This is just one example, there are some more.

I was so disappointed in this book. Entirely way too much time expended on travel logistics. Anyone going to China is not going to buy this book as their sole resource guide. Leave the logistics to those who do it best, and spend more time on where to shop!

6 of 12 humans found the following review helpful.
Nice guide for us shopaholics.
By Vern Yip Fan
I purchased Suzy’s last edition on Hong Kong, to guide me around this great buying goods city. It was very helpful. She tells you the places to forget, and the places not to be missed. When I heard that she was freeing a new edition with Shanghai & Beijing, I purchased it also, for an upcoming trip to Beijing. I was a little disapointed to find that she had trimmed alot off of the Hong Kong division to make room for the mainland cities. But it’s still a must have if buying goods is on your “to do” list. Suzy seemed to list all the things I wanted to buy on my trip, she does have impecable taste.

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Can’t wait to shop in Shanghai? Well then, which are the best places to shop in this consumption-crazy city in China?

Shanghai is well known for a good deal of of the best buying goods experiences you’ll find amidst major cities in China. When visiting Shanghai you’lll surely pass through the city’s two major mercantile streets — upscale Nanjing Xi Lu (Nanjing West Road) and bustling Huaihai Lu (Huaihai Road).

But there’s a lot more to buying goods than these two evident places. Indeed, you’ll find streets huge and little full of buying goods centres. You’ll be capable to plan a full day of buying goods if that’s what you want. Even if you don’t actually feel like buying goods you ought to still visit them. (I recognise you’re a guy but you’re already in Shanghai, right?)

Shopping in Shanghai is an experience you will never forget. Whether or not you are a buying goods fanatic, there are respective buying goods malls merchandising anything from high-priced luxuriousness goods to stylish and lowcost casuals and conventional Chinese handicrafts.

I must mention that as I’m writing this article, the notorious Xiang Yang Market has already been closed down. Some of you out there reading this will have fond memories of highly-charged bargaining sessions with phony goods vendors who speak six dissimilar languages.

Here are a few buying goods highlights in Shanghai, starting with Nanjing Xi Lu…

Shanghai’s Plaza 66

Where: 55 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Shaanxi Lu

Plaza 66 is crystalline proof of Shanghai’s diligent obsession with consumption. Arguably, it’s the fanciest shpping mall in Shanghai, with a frosty demeanor to match.

Whether you’re looking for Prada for pret-a-porter, Waterford for cystal, Bose or Bang and Olufsen for sound, Plaza 66 has over 100 widely known and esteemed brands.

With it is dazzling array of architect brands, this place is perfective for the nouveau riche with cash to burn. There isn’t another buying goods mall as luxurious as this one in Shanghai.

A five-minutes walk from the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Plaza 66 has a cafe in the atrium and a few restuarants perched on the fifth floor.

Shanghai’s Citic Plaza

Where: 1168 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Plaza 66

A bright, gleaming five-storey mall providing a varied mix of costume labels, Citic Plaza is a five-minutes walk from the Shimen Yi Lu metro station.

From high-end designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Chloe and Kenzo to the more lowcost casuals from Tough and Esprit, this is a mall with more reasonable prices.

Whether you’re wealthy or light on budget, this place is perfective for anybody with an eye for fashion.

Feeling hungry after all that shopping? No worries there.

Every floor of the mall offers a restaurant — from McDonald’s (you’re not going to eat at McDonald’s in China, are you?) in the basement to super buffet Golden Jaguar (unlimited sashimi and Pacific oysters) on the third floor to chic Sichuan restuarant China Moon (puts your local Chinatown Sichuan restuarant to shame) on the fourth.

By the way, there’s likewise a comfortableness store and English-Chinese language bookstore in case you’re looking for solid homogeneous inorgani substance water or maps.

Shanghai’s Westgate Mall

Where: 1038 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Citic Plaza

A smart, well-organized buying goods haven, providing up a range of trendy shops from Burberry, Givenchy and Versace to Chinese label Zuczug. The Westgate Mall is perfective for mall lovers with cash to spend who imagination a alter from their standard hang out.

Also a couple of minutes walk from Shimen Yi Lu metro station, the Westgate malls offers a Studio City Cinema (with super sound system), Watson’s, a little supermarket in the basement, Marie France sliming clinic and an Isetan Department store ( a major Japanese chain) accessible on each floor.

And much, much more…

As I noted before, Nanjing Xi Lu and Huaihai Lu are the most prominent buying goods streets in Shanghai but they’re not the only ones. These are the modern buying goods malls and they’ll give you a good idea of how things have changed in China over the last 20 years.

Other Shopping…

If you go on older streets like Dongtai Lu you’ll find classical hand-made items. This handicraft market offers a assortment of classical items like Chinese ceramics, jade, bronze, wood articles, paintings, and calligraphic works. You may likewise get your tools there if you are an artisan yourself or plan to be.

More of an intellectual buying goods street, Fuzhou Lu boasts a vast collection of bookstores in Shanghai. Not only does it offer over thirty bookstores but likewise has a lot of of the oldest bookstores (some over 100 years old) in Shanghai.

Shopping in Shanghai is in all likelihood the most time-consuming action in Shanghai whether for visitors or locals. With huge buying goods malls on the more frequent streets to little boutiques or specific markets on littler streets, Shanghai is where buying goods fanatics will find their Paradise.

I’m a foreigner who traveled to Shanghai and realized it is hard to have a great time in Shanghai when you are not well-informed. That is why I decisive to come up with a finish online guide with the latest selective information and tips on having a great time in Shanghai, whether you’re journeying to Shanghai or living in the city.