Dalian Shopping

What to buy: We bought sets of chopsticks or foldup paper fans for gifts. Most of the chopsticks we bought in Chinese department stores, rather than in Walmart. The paper foldup fans we found at many different places. There was a chopsticks store located 3 blocks west of the Swissotel on the ground floor. I think the main entrance of the hotel faces east.

What to pay: The least expensive gifts, teasets, fans, chopsticks etc. were in the department stores located between the Swissotel and the Victory Shopping Plaza to the West, toward the train station.

This shopping square links the Train Station to the Zhongshan street and the other side of the shopping zone in downtown Dalian.

Some shopping malls and restaurants are in this square. As you cross Zhongshan street by the underground passages you find yourself in an underground shopping mall with small shops with almost everything.

Upstairs you find yourself again in the middle of huge and fancier shopping malls...

If your sport is shopping you find yourself in the right place.

Late afternoon a gathering of people indicates the food market is opening...

Interesting place to eat every sort of Chinese food as well as others... we even found a vendor offering "Brazilian barbecue"!

What to buy: Food...

Near the Train Station, this street has lots of shops with signs in Russian, including some restaurants as well.

Quite interesting, since Dalian was a Russian protectorate until the mid 1900's.

What to buy: Every kind of cheap gadgets...

A huge and beautiful one shopping center. on the first 6 flores you can buy all clothes from ab Marina, MNG, nike to Givenchi, Prada and Kenzo.

What to buy: Everywhere here you can find stylish clothes with big sales.

Dalian Shide is the most successful soccer team in China. Of course this team also has its fan article. The store is not very big but you can find shirts, bags, watches, towels, .... if you are a fan of Dalian Shide.
There are also some articles of other European football teams but for sure not as much as you can find in a ... ManU shop.

the biggest shopping center in dalain.there is a few basement down there and the food i say 'ma la tang' is inside there.guess wat???
i use 1 whole day to shopping here.hahahaa........can u believe?

What to buy: anything i can tell,there is inside!!!!!

What to pay: of cos with rmb only!!!!hahahahaaa

Several different places to buy imported items, grocery depts always seem to be on the lower levels. Some things can be bought in several stores, I mostly mention things that are cheaper or unique to this store
Agora Market - across the front street of Swiss Hotel, under Labour Park, walk on lower floor, to the right and the last shop on the right at T intersection - spices, taco shells, bacon, mozzerella, whip cream, creeeam cheese, Kellogs cereal, check this place out

Mycal - downtown just behind the Swiss Hotel
- bread, pasta, pasta sauce, OB tampons, cheese, pickles, relish, drinks

Newmart - across from Mycal
- course ground pepper, lettuces

Carrefour - cheese, grapefruit juice, olives, olive oil, peanut butter,

Friendship Store - pasta, drinks, skin creams, cleaning supplies, vinegars, olive oil

Walmart - I prefered their meats

What to buy: Walmart - Olympic Plaza - just off Zhongshan Lu
Friendship Store - downtown - one block off Zhongshan Square
Carrefour - Huang He Lu
Newmart, Mycal, Agora Market - all downtown near Swiss Hotel

What to pay: about the same at home, so it seems expensive to Chinese brands, but sometimes you just have to pay the price