Guangzhou Shopping!

Ho! We were back from holidaying in Guangzhou! This was our 2nd visit there, mainly for food and shopping. During our 1st visit, the tourist attractions had already been covered.

Guangzhou is famous for its many Wholesales Centre of all sorts. Clothes, Shoes, Toys, Stationary, Souvenir, Tea leaves, Dried Sea Goods, Tidbits and Snacks. You could easily recognized the area of Wholesales as you travelled around in the city public buses.

Visit the Wholesales Centre for an eye opener, but a good shopping experience would be recommended at their many Shopping Malls/ Shopping Streets.

Shang-Xia Jiu Road (上下九路)

This is one of the two pedestrian shopping streets in Guangzhou, the other being Beijing Road (北京步行街). Our hotel nearness to Shang-Xia Jiu Road makes here our popular dining venue.

上下九路 stall vendors peddled mainly cheap goods of poorer quality. But come here for the many food outlets and the colorful night lights.

11, 15, 17 Dec 09 - China Plaza (中华广场)

A popular Mall among the locals. JUSCO was having a moving out Sales which really draws in the crowd, even before the Mall opens at 10am, everyone was already waiting outside the main entrance...

12 Dec 09 - Simgo City Plaza (新光城市广场)

It houses the Carrefour Supermarket where we love to shop for the local products. And Simgo Departmental Store that features many of our favourite local brands.

13 Dec 09 - TeeMall (天河城)

TeeMall is a big and expensive up-market shopping complex that houses many international brands offering very limited discounts. Its surrounding shopping malls across the road offers cheaper buys and dining options.

13 Dec 09 - GrandBuy Department Store (广百百货)

We found one of our favourite China brand 自然元素 here!

13 Dec 09 - Guangzhou Dongfang Baotai Square (广州东方宝泰广场)

Guangzhou latest Shopping Mall below Guangzhou East Station with Uniqlo 2nd outlet in Guangzhou opening here on 19 Dec 09. Across the road stands Guangzhou IKEA!

14 Dec 09 - The Plaza (天娱广场)

We had our 1st meal of Ajisen here and some shopping. Forget movie watching in Guangzhou, as mentioned in my earlier post, it's more expensive than in Singapore.

14 Dec 09 - MoPark (摩登百货)

More Shopping at Mopark that's next to 天娱广场.

16 & 17 Dec 09 - Beijing Road (北京步行街)

Be here! The ultimate shopping street in Guangzhou! You wouldn't return empty handed.

But try to avoid shopping here during the weekends; no salesperson would be free to give you a proper service! The pedestrian walk would also be too jam packed with the local weekend crowds for any leisure window shopping!

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This Guangzhou shopping trip was my most rewarding visit to China as we had gotta familiar with their many good local brands from our past visits to various China's city. The brands were offering tempting seasonal discounts!

14 Pants & Jeans, 4 Skirts, 1 Dress, 1 Belt, 1 pair of Shoe, 2 Spectacles, 2 Jackets, 2 Shirts and 6 DVDs are my buys!? My booty that could last me for the whole year, or even my extended stay in Guangzhou. Ho! Ho! Ho! But I do admit having 14 new Pants is a little overboard ;)

MapBar.com is ALL we need to locate the shopping malls or shops, it's even linked up to China's public transport system to help us plan our route! We relied heavily on MapBar on all our China's holiday. Hope you have an enjoyable trip too!