Wangfujing Shopping Street

Nice place for wandering and shopping. Haggle! Never pay for more that 1/3 of the starting price. Also be careful of pick pocketers; keep your bag zipped and in the front.

This street is famous for its local and exotic foods to both locals and tourists, alike. There's plenty of dumplings, lamb/chicken/pork kabobs, fried foods, and plenty of other foods that can replace a sit-down dinner.The prices are moderate, since this is definitely a tourist attraction. But you can go to other night markets with better prices.For the shock value, TRY THE SCORPION!! Believe me, it's really not that bad!! Since it's fried, takes like ordinary fried food. So if you lose a bet or are challenged to a dare, don't worry, it will taste fine.If you're even more daring, try the starfish, sea horse, or even snake!

As a Chinese Ive been to this street since my childhood. It was so modern and fashionable but now it decays. The most noticed part for my visiting this time is the not-so-shinny PRADA shop. Now Zhongguancun(beijing silicon valley) and Xidan are all more updated with high shopping malls and so on. But Wangfujing is not that traditional anymore and also not that "in". The snack street is the same like before, disgusting fried insects and very crowded. It is worth to go for a foreigner as you will experience a lot. You call the snack street as "night market" and it starts at 5pm.

Huge variety of shops and stalls. Chinese department stores, very expensive designer stores, art galleries (very expensive), tourist shops, shopping malls with all western mid price shops - so far nothing special, but attractive because of the variety. There are also 2 great huge book shops that have enormous selections of books in all languages and DVDs. And then there are the areas behind the main shop facades with the interesting food choices, that reviewers are raving about. However, the food stalls are selling huge quantities of fish, meat and vegetable skewers. All Chinese are eating and enjoying it. There are also the different skewers with scorpions, etc etc, but they were not sold that much, although I saw some Chinese families eating a handful of scorpions and millipedes as if they were rare delicacies. Worth a visit. Also lots of other tourist stuff, including the "dress up as the emperor" photo shoot. I was in the Main Street also approached by language students trying to lure me into a tea shop. Wangfujing is definitely a place where you can spend a few hours looking around, buy excellent books at normal prices (not the inflated prices at the sights that need lots of time bargaining down), have a great lunch (great restaurants inside the malls) and in general enjoy people looking, especially the local Chinese tourists