Stores, Malls or Markets in Mongolia

Known as ikh delguur or 'big shop', the State Department Store is virtually a tourist attraction in itself, with the best products from around the city squeezed into one building. The 1st floor has a good supermarket at the back and the rest of the floor is taken up by perfume counters. The 2nd floor has outlets for clothing, cashmere and leather goods. The 3rd floor has electronics, a Mobicom shop, CDs, books, sports equipment, camping and fishing gear. The 5th floor has a great collection of souvenirs, traditional clothing, maps and books about Mongolia. Souvenir prices are higher than in other shops around the city. This shop is a must visit even if you're not planning on doing any shopping. Simply come in and look around.

If you can't travel Mongolia, maybe try this store: www.mogultravel.com/artscrafts

What to buy: Mongol style paintings, boots, Mongolian winter olympic hats-fox fur hats, silk vest, felt bags and slippers. Even a horse whip made from gazelle leg.

What to pay: from 12-155 $

There are few cashmere shops where you can find good quality of Cashmere cloths for cheap price comparing with other countries but the Quality of Mongolian pure cashmere is the best in the world, there are some factory make clothes by Italian style pretty cool.

specially in fall all the shops are in Discount like 5 %,
*Cashmere house*
cashmere house and boutique is the largest one in Ulaanbaatar.we are confident once you purchase clothes in Cashmere house you will appreciate the warmth and softness of Mongolian cashmere.
found in this Cashmere house seems little biut fancy and good colour combination,

Black market is an interesting place where you can see the real local people who tries to supply thier kids and family and selling goods in all during four seasons, still staying in outside when it gets -30 in freezing winter,
All the basic foodstuffs are available from the various number of super markets. Many types of imported food are sold in department store Bars and Mercury food market. several shops are selling camping gears and also in the black market you can find everything as well as NORTH FAKE ( north face) made in china but it’s ideal to buy those the price of one tenth in Europe around 25$ the quality isn’t that bad . The black market is known Har Zakh in Mongolian Narantuul is the biggest and main place for locals to buy clothing, traditional costume, hand made furniture, high quality of Mongolian carpets, fresh fruit and vegetable also fresh meat just from grazing land and traditional milk products as well as Mongolian GER felt tent with all the details and decorations, This is the place you can find the cheapest things in a town but sure you should bargain take your tour guide or Mongolian friend when you go there, But don’t worry Mongolians are very honest people so they don’t increase the price like Chinese just maybe just few hundreds believe them .
The most important things is to be careful with your stuffs don’t take your passport, wallet with lot of money and camera there are group of pickpockets in black market and they are almost professional some come in front of you other push you from your back and they make crowd on purpose and in that time some will steal your things and will run away in second.

What to buy: Here you can find everything everything, from the stationary to second handed German shoes /10-20$/ , Traditional Mongolian clohes, hand made felt boots /15-20$/, traditional Del / 25-30$/, some traditional furniture with beautifil painting, wooden chair /4$/ depending on the size, small wooden chair or maybe tea dest will ge breat present to your loved ones, but and then post them in Post office, there is a inside Food market there you coud find from mutton to milk product, dried curd, clotted cream, as well as fermented mare's milk / less than 1$ per litre/.

What to pay: Here are some useful Mongolian phrases that might help you! don't expect that they will speak english to you!!
*How much does it cost? Ene yamar unetei ve? / Энэ ямар үнэтэй вэ? /
*I would like to buy... Bi …-iig avmaar baina / Би ...- г авмаар байна /
*Can I try this ….? Bi omsoj uzej boloh uu? / Би өмсөж үзэж болох уу? /
*Boots Gutal / Гутал /
*Deel Deel / Дээл /
*Do you have smaller / bigger one? Tanid arai jijig/ tom baina uu? / Танд арай жижиг / том байна уу? /

This is a comprehensive souvenir shop inside the main temple complex, just walk to your left upon entering the main gate. I found that you can get many of the same things in UB cheaper. But why not look for the special touch, and never mind place of origin.

What to buy: For my home I bought thick, warm winter slippers made from wool felt and hide soles.

What to pay: Overpriced compared to the local economy, but some of it goes to charity, so why not?

The Black Market is not a "black market" but the main outdoors market in UB. In one area there will be indivduals trying to sell hides of various critters, some legal, some not according to CITES.

What to buy: The marmot skins are very fine and soft and warm, so go for those; millions are killed each year in what still is considered sustainable harvesting - for food. The finest skins go to town to be sold...
Note that China prohibits import of marmot skins, never mind their own export of the same! The reason is probably a mix of protectionism and fear of spread of the pest (marmot is a pest bacillus carrier).

What to pay: I paid 10.000 t?gr?g for the one on the photo.

This is an open-air gigantic market located quite some distance from the city centre. Best to get there by taxi.

A small fee is collected upon entrance. The open-air market has canvas shelters in some areas.

Every trashy and kitsch thing that remotely has a chance of being sold is being sold here. There are some food stalls outside the covered area.

Personally, I enjoyed visiting this market to see the activities and mock at the merchandises.

However, WATCH OUT FOR PICKPOCKETS called ALI-BABAS!! They usually carry a sweater or jacket on their arm or fling one across their shoulder so that it is easier to hide the stolen wallets. They know about money-belts and will blatantly poke you in the back to test for them!

I'm not sure what's the name of it in English, but in Mongolian it is something like this. It is located near the main train station (10m east from it on the same side of the street) - a grey two-story building.

What to buy: A good one-stop shop for all your gifts - cashmere, carpets, leather goods and sheepskin. On the second floor at the very end there is a store selling goods made of yak wool - a good cheap alternative to cashmere.