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Wangfujing Street: Night Markets
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  • Aroung 6 pm some streets in Beijing turn into lively nightmarkets. Specially around Wangfujing Road you can spend your evening eating and drinking at many nice foodstalls. Just try all this local specialities!!! The only food I do not eat are small birds and fried insects.

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    Wangfujing Street: Bustling Night Market
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  • I believe it's called the Donganmen Night Market, but anyway, this is a great place to be in the evening. The night market is just off of Wangfujing St, near the Xindongan Mall. Here you can buy Mongolian barbecued lamb, sweet rolls, drinks, and much more. Even if you don't buy anything, it's interesting to just be here and watch.

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  • Directions: Just across from Xindongan Mall.
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    Wangfujing Street: One of the city's best bustling spots
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    Bought at "Wangfujing food
    street" (made me cry!)
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    As to me the 700-year-old Wangfujing street is not the most interesting street in Beijing but it is probably the most famous and busiest.

    Because of its easy access to the major roads, high land prices and high density of retail and service business and the high degree of population flow, Wangfujing is now considered the city’s central business disctrict .

    I don’t like it too much now, its modernazition leading up to high-rocket prices and hundred-years old small typical spots giving place to world renowed brand names.

    Everything you buy is relatively more expensive than in the rest of the city. Even the food in this area is also more expensive. No wonder why Wangfujing street is reputed by locals as a "golden street".

    What attracts me in Wangfujing is definitely not its night food street, the snacks here just make me cry (for the tourists, however, the snacks must be kind of delicacies), what attracts me, I was saying, it is the Xinhua Bookstore and the Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore, nice places to spend all day, reading, reading and reading.

    As to eating in Wangfujing I only like the “Gou bu li” restaurant that sells some of the best steamed buns in town (check it NOW).

    Another thing I like about Wangfujing is that you can freely walk around because much of the road is off-limits to cars and other motor vehicles

    Wangfujing is located in the Dongcheng District of Beijing. The street has an extention of 1,150 meters, from Wangfujing Nankou to Dengshi Xikou.

    Wangfujing is served by Line 1 of the Beijing subway (at the southern end of the street). Line 1 is an important subway line for you because is the only one that runs through the centre of Beijing (it runs from Pingguoyuan (west) to Sihui East (East), through beneath the extended Chang’an Avenue and the commercial areas of Xidan, Wangfujing and Dongdan. It also has two stations in both sides of Tiananmen).

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  • Address: Dongcheng District
  • Directions: Take Line 1 of the Beijing subway and get off at the Wangfujing station (this station is located in the southern end of the Wangfujing street).
  • Website: http://www.beijingtraveltips.com/trail/wangfujing/wangfujing.htm
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    Wangfujing Street: Sin Dong Yeng Night Market
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  • “Sin Dong Yeng” night market, this section sells the same stuff as the food area in Wangfujing except these are all street vendors, smoke aroma filled the street with BBQ lamb, chicken, pork, squire, crickets etc…

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    Wangfujing Street: Hostess club cupcakes
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  • During my first visit in Beijing, I was unexpectedly introduced to the tradition of the Chinese hostess club. Passing an unsigned non-descript building in Wangfujing district, a beautiful Chinese woman in a black dress ushered me over her way. As she led me into the building I realized I had no clue where she was taking me, but she was gorgeous so I didn't really care. She put me into an elevator and sent me up to the 4th floor. When the doors opened up, I saw a large group of incredibly beautiful Chinese girls, wearing shimmering gold dresses, cut at the mid-thigh like a mini-skirt. A host guided me into the club, which I found out was called the 'Oriental Pearl'. Part nightclub, part cabaret, part bordello, it was a nocturnal playground for bureaucrats, foreign businessmen and the like. I perused the drinks list and selected a Long Island Ice Tea. Not sure what they brought me, but it didn't taste a damn thing like a Long Island. I gradually consumed the strong syrupy concoction while enjoying a series of Chinese karaoke ballads sung by beautiful Chinese girls. Then, some professional dancers came out with a guy that was a singer, and did a few numbers (seen in photo here). After that, people started taking the dance floor, similar to how you would see in a Western style disco club, although the Chinese dance style is much more modest and restrained. Eventually, my waiter came up and asked me if I wanted to pay 200 yuan to have one of the lovely girls in the gold dresses come and join me at my table. I declined, being unaccustomed to paying for the privilege of sitting with someone. Realizing the whole spectacle was just a cover for a prostitution racket, I left the Oriental Pearl, wondering why heaven on earth always came with a high price tag.

    Years later, I don't think this club still exists, but this should give you an idea of what hostess clubs are all about...

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  • Directions: Wangfujing street, within a couple blocks of the Crowne Plaza.
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    Wangfujing Street: WOW Crazy Shopping~~~
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  • It is a very prosperous shopping streets. With hundreds of modern shopping malls as well as traditional ones that even last more than 100 years. You can buy anything from cool digital stuff to tiny artistic paper kite. And there various restaurants ,coffee bars cater to international and local customers in the shopping mall and streets. Also there are 2 big book store (one more than 5 story) . You can get some books and Video products here. OH remember the book store close early no late than 6 pm. others always open until 11pm or even later. Enjoy crazy shopping night ! ~~~ :)

    Shopping indeed is a very exhausting job .Remember:Heavy bags will kill you.

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    Wangfujing Street: Night time eats
    No visit is complete without visiting the night market and the exotic eats. Until you see it you can't believe it; scropions, millepedes, starfish, grasshoppers and beatles are for sale for the daring!

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    Wangfujing Street: Wangfujing and surrounding area
    Great place to just sit and watch ppl walk by. Great restaurants and shopping, too. Just around the corner from there is my favorite "Food street" in the world: Donghuamen Street. Anything you could ever imagine...fried on a stick. GREAT food. A bit pricey for tourists tho...

    Anything except flashy clothes WILL attract stares...no wait, that's anywhere in China.

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    Wangfujing Street: Bright Lights and Crowds
    The stores on Wangfujing stay open till about 9 or 10pm. The Mcdonalds just outside SunDongAn Plaze until midnight, blasting it theme song at full volume from open till close. At first i thought there was a club nearby but soon realised it is McDonalds that was pumping the volume.
    You can go into Wangfujing Food Street which runs off Wangfujing Street where you find not just interesting food (scorpion and seahorse skewers!) but souvernirs too. Don't get too pissed off with the waiter/tresses trying to convince you, almost dragging you to dine at their humble restaurant though, they are just doing their job. Almost all of them are non-Beijingers from villages or towns and they may not be aware that their persistence is rude to some
    Crowds start to disperse close to midnite but there are hawkers selling all sorts of stuffs (baked sweet potatoes, dvds) after the stores close.
    It is nice just to stroll along the pedestrian mall, people watching - locals chew on their 'ping tang hu lu' (candied fruits) while shopping and non-locals wandering around.

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    Wangfujing Street: Night market nearby Wang Fu Jin. This night market is...
    Night market nearby Wang Fu Jin. This night market is famous with its local tib bits.

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