Other Beijing Shopping Areas
- The Sanlitun district hosts a slightly more downmarket clothing market, Yashou Clothes Market, where the same rules of price-haggling apply. The rest of Sanlitun has now been redeveloped from bars to clothing and restaurants.
- The Yabaolu district caters mainly to Russian traders buying medium quantities wholesale, but "Alien Street Market" is a cheaper, Russian-speaking, version of Silk Street.
- Xidan and Wangfujing are the two major traditional commercial areas for department stores - with little or no English spoken.
- Houhai is for restaurants and bars, not shops, but has a back street Yandai xiejie "Tobacco pouch slanted alley" which sells art and craft type souvenirs as Nanluoguxiang.
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