Xian Money and Shopping: Clothes

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Xi'an is a great place to buy clothes.

• East Street (Dong Dajie), (The eastern of the four big streets descending from the central Bell Tower). Has regular fashion shops.

• South Street (Nan Dajie). Has finer clothes and shoes (e.g. Louis Vuitton).

• Baihui Market (百汇市场), (In Xiaozhai (小寨), ¥10 by taxi from the city center). Local youngsters shop here. It is one of those fake-brand markets. Sport shoes should be less than ¥150, pullovers and nice jeans sometimes less than ¥100, lots of cheap fashion accessories. This is also a great place for DVDs and CDs but understand these are mostly pirated copies.

• Kangfu Road, (Outside the east city wall, straight through the Northeast Gate). A great place for a bargain. Nothing is (bargained for) over ¥50 and most clothes can be bargained down to about ¥20 if you are really aggressive. But this place is full of poor quality stuff.

• Shi Da Lu. A trendy place to shop in a largely student populated area in the south of the city. Shi Da Lu has lots of hair salons, and clothing botiques.

• Century Ginwa. This luxury shopping mall has two locations in Xi'an. One downtown by the Drum Tower, the other in Gao Xing on Ke Ji Lu.