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Beijing Wangfujing street is shopping district with department stores and where Beijing delicacies can be found. The street is one of the most well known shopping streets of Beijing, China, located in Dongcheng District. The majority of the main area is pedestrianised and very popular shopping area for both tourists and local residents.
Wangfujing is now regarded as the central heart of Beijing City. It is the first modern style commercial street in Beijing, lasted approximately 800 meters long with many department stores and shopping malls on two sides of the street. A walk from end to end would take you about 30 minutes, and that's without looking at any shops and malls.
The Wangfujing shopping district aspires to attain equal ranking with New York's Fifth Avenue, the Champs-Elysees of Paris and the Ginza in Tokyo. The stores on the street sell clothes, tea, shoes, souvenirs, books, hats, etc.
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There are three large markets on this street: Sun Dong An Plaza, Beijing Department Store and The Malls at Oriental Plaza. The Malls at Oriental Plaza is known as one of the largest markets in Asia. There are also a whole bunch of Chinese and Western fast food restaurants.
Traveling down the Beijing Wangfujing street shopping district department store you can see that it carries many foreign brands such as Calvin Klein, Nina Ricce, Gucci, Prada, Lanvin etc. including cosmetic brands such as Christian Dior, Elizabeth Arden and Guerlain and boutiques like Mondi, Yves Saint Laurent, Nina Ricci, D'urban and Charles Jourdan. There are also ladies department, lingerie, accessories and leather bags.
There are also two book stores, namely Wangfujing Bookstore with some western literature on the third floor and Foreign Languages Bookstore with a wider selection of western books. Toys and other children's stuff are available at Xin Zhong Guo Kid's Stuff or the Children's Goods Store.
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Beijing Delicacies in Wangfujing Snack Street
A side street, west of Wangfujing, is called Wangfujing XiaoChiJie (Wangfujing Snack Street). Besides snacks, various sorts of souvenirs are available here.
The Beijing delicacies can be found in Wangfujing snack street, located just northeast of Tiananmen and the Forbidden Palace. Wangfujing snack street is in hutongs or alley just west of the main Wangfujing street. It is densely packed with restaurants and street food stalls. The food stalls serves a wide variety of common and exotic street food.
Wangfujing snack street specializes in a variety of strange things, skewered and cooked on a stick. They have everything from starfish to sea-snakes, scorpions, bugs with legs, bugs without legs and almost every kind of insect imaginable, coated in sauce and barbecued for your snacking pleasure. The skewered scorpions, sea horses and star fishes attract tourists or visitors to take pictures. Few people would stop and taste the weird food.
The more common fare such as chuanr (meat kebabs, commonly made of lamb) and desserts, such as tanghulu or candied fruits on a stick, are among the most popular.
The Beijing Wangfujing street should be regarded more as a tourist attraction as Wangfujing is not the place to make a bargain for best deal. The prices are relatively higher comparing to other area in the city, but on the other hand the quality is generally good.
