Forget Silk Market for your Chinese tat and clothes. It's crowded and vendors are very pushy.
Go down the road instead. It's the same stuff, including great tailors, just as big but less crowded and therefore more fun.
Remember to haggle!
Yashow Market, 58 Gongti Beilu, Chaoyang District
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