Archive for the "Shopping" category

Beijing’s Best Markets

by Elizabeth Kain - Dim Sum Diary
( March 22nd, 2012 )

Photo: Colorful animals  make it easy to identify the Tianyi wholesale market.

Beijing is a great place to shop, and there are plenty of options, from high-end malls to the myriad of markets.  I much prefer the latter, which …

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Beijing’s Lamp Market: From AK-47s to horses

by Elizabeth Kain - Dim Sum Diary
( December 16th, 2011 )

Lately I’ve been missing some of the quirkier aspects of living in Beijing, for example, the city’s vast lamp market, which was housed in three football-field-sized warehouses.  There were lamps that I would buy for my home, to be sure, but of course the more interesting were those made depicting life-sized …

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The Gap comes to China

by Elizabeth Kain - Dim Sum Diary
( December 14th, 2010 )

For expatriates in Beijing, life becomes easier by the month, if not the week. Change comes quickly here at a speed difficult to describe. New grocery stores with foods geared toward western …

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