The silk market is a shopping center in Beijing,the silk market (aka Xiushui Market) attracts approximately 20,000 visitors daily (from 9am to 9pm) on weekdays and between 50,000 and 60,000 on weekends as of 2006. This complex houses 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople spread over seven floors with three levels of basements.
If you come to Beijing, one of your obligations is to go to the silk market, as it is a really cool place and it is a market where you can have a lot of fun bargaining and buying every kind of product at really low prices(if you are a good bargainer)
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The old market was demolished long time ago, the new market had different characteristics, assistants are much better trained on languages and services, the new market is open to the public. It is an area of 30000 square meters. Some of the workers are dressed with a red jacket and an identification card, their main tools are a calculator to set the price with the consumer and an incredible ability to bargain ..
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BARGAINING TIPS
- Keep in mind what time it is, the best time to get good bargains is the closing time, the vendors start to be realistic and they want to get rid of products by the end of the day
- Do not ask for the price of a product if you are not going to bargain for the product
- Bring small change
- Do not asked to interested and do not get attached to whatever you are bargaining for
- Joke with vendors and try to have a good time with them, they are really nice people
- Start way lower that want you are willing to pay
- Be polite and have try to have a very good time!
Address:North of Dong Chang An Avenue, Jianguimenwai Street, Chaoyang District
Bus:Bus No.1,9,28,37,43,120,126,403,639,640,668,728,and 729, take arrival at Yonganli Station
Subway:The Xiu Shui street mall is located near the Yong An Li line 1 subway station. You can walk directly from the subway into the mall via an underground passageway without suffering the heat on summer or the cold on winter.
OTHER BEIJING SHOPPING AREAS
- THE SANLITUN DISTRICT, hosts a slightly more down market clothing market
- THE JABAOLU DISTRICT, 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 WANGFUING, 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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