Beijing Silk Market

It is the most famous shopping arcade for foreign tourists around the world, the Silk Market Beijing. Before 2008 Beijing Olympic, both arcades are very famous of "fake" or "copied" goods from those really international big brand names goods examples are LV, Gucci, Girgio Armani, Dunhill, Tods, Burberry, Polo Ralph Laurent, Northen Face, Tommy Hilfinger, Nike, Addidas, Puma, Samsonites, and many mores. What most interesting is they have the most recent release design as well.

In the older days, Beijing Silk Market is formed by about 400 little stalls beside the roads, used to sell only china souvenirs and silk products, so this is why it gets the name of Silk Market by a lot of foreigners. Now it has transformed into a 8 stories building with 3 under ground level and 5 levels above, total of 28 thousands square meters that can host about 1000 stalls. The stalls sell many goods ranging from shoes, bags, jackets, jeans, winter clothing, business clothing, luggage, suits, pants, sports wears, silks, tailor made silk "Cheong San" (traditional clothing for Chinese lady", tailor made suits, cosmetics apparels, TV and hand-held games console, pearls, and a lot more to mentioned here.

Dinning or Tea

Since the market so huge and you definitely needs couple of hours to spend here, they have some coffee shops at the ground floors, Italian restaurant also, and at the 5th floor, there is a Quan Ju De Beijing Roast Duck outlet there, so you have try out the most famous Beijing roast duck here after you shopping. If you prefer fast foods like McDonald, it is just at the side entrance of Silk Market and opposite building across the road, there also you can find some local restaurants selling many different Chinese foods with very reasonable price.

Some Tips

It is advice to bargain with any seller in the Silk Market. They will first look at you and they will roughly guess where are you from and to open a price that is cater for your origin country, which means every tourists from different countries they already put an special price tag for you. Most of the time, the 1st offering price is very very high. Rules of thumb is slash what ever price they given to you by about 70% off the 1st mentioned price, also please try to slash the same item with the same price with different stalls, if 2 stalls cannot make it, try to ask for the minimum price that can sell and bargain from there. If no deal, just walk away and go for other stalls.

IF you are buying any copied goods like bags, luggage, jackets, please ask for the "Super A" quality goods, as they are couple of grades for these copied products. Of course higher grade goods will have higher price tag, but it is just a friction of the original brand goods.

Enjoy your shopping experience.

Access Information

Subway: Number 1 line, stop at Yong An Li station, just above the station.

Taxi: Just mention Silk Market or Sew Shui Shi Chang.

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