SANLITUN & YA XIU beijing.

Sanlitun Village is just another hyped-up commercial hub - basically if you need to shop just stick to WANG FUJING STREET (see below article). Go there if you need to hit the bars, not shops. There is one market bazaar of sorts called YA XIU - tell the cab driver "yah-shew sanlitun". but this will appeal to the more uninitiated amateur shoppers - you will mostly get garbage here (note: not my quote, this came directly from the local cab driver). quality is not good, but the price - basically here is the tip. if they offer you 180 yuan for a replica sweater, drop the "0" - dats 18 yuan and dats how much approx actual cost. of course, you risk being called at if you go dat low ... so i went like 50% from the actual offering. but later i found out, i could go a lot lower - shit! hahaha .. but dun buy too many stuff there, quality not worth it.