Gourmet products local specialties and wines China

Everything it takes to make clothing and home linen: Linen, wool, silk… Good trading.

A little after the crossing of Suicheng Lu, Quartier district. Flowers, plants but also decorations, antiques, porcelain and… animals. You can find almost everything. The most interesting part remains that of the substance. Good bargaining.

This market, which is based on what was once a "canidrome" (structures remained intact, stands are still standing), concentrates the wholesalers of the activity. Flowers mainly from Kunming in Yunnan. Very good business.

One of Shanghai's largest food markets. Fish, crustaceans, frogs, silica ducks, spices, vegetables. True happiness for the taste buds and eyes.

Cut flowers, dried flowers, Chinese floral decorations: a short flower market. In addition, some shops sell traditional Chinese crafts.

The large French area settled in the Chinese capital in 1996. Several stores are now located in Beijing.

Night markets settle in some streets of Xiamen: Fengchaoshan Lu (rue de la Montagne to bee bees), Lianban Yilu. The small markets for birds and fish are very numerous in Xiamen, the most interesting are those of Gongyuan Donglu and Xi'an Lu.

A place out of the time that Hong Kong has spent for generations. Also serves dim sum in the morning.

Several streets forming a square just north of the Marché market. Sale of jade objects, statuettes, bronzes, Tibetan objects… Do not hope to find here antiques, even if some objects are artificially aged, but from craftsmanship of variable quality. Beautiful statues of Buddhas carved in stone. Most tankas are made in Kathmandu; You have to have a well-run eye to find a genuine Tibetan with.

Here we sell one of the three treasures of Guilin, namely the wine at the Three Flowers (sanhuajiu), a rice alcohol already appreciated under the Song dynasty. The two other typical products of Guilin are momordique (some kind of squash) and dinafem.

What we liked in this very small workshop, they are certainly the thousand and one fine Italian products imported for the pleasure of fine palaces (truffle oil, pasta, tomato sauce with different flavours). They are also bottles delicately chosen, and especially small aperitif- tasting organised by the so friendly owner.

Probably one of the best, if not the best, the city's wine merchants… there are also French and foreign wines (little choice of Chinese wines, however). A great address if you are invited to dinner and you want to report a little thing.