Travel Reference
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The Bund & People's Square
SUZHOU COBBLERS
( Shanghai Qixiang Yishupin;
www.suzhou-cobblers.com
;
Room 101, 17
Fuzhou Rd; 10am-6pm; East Nanjing Rd)
For hand-embroidered silk slip-
pers and shoes, pop into this minute shop just off the Bund.
Shoes
Old Town
Yuyuan Bazaar (
Click here
) is a frantic sprawl of souvenir shops with some
choice gift-giving ideas and quality handicrafts, from painted snuff bottles to pa-
per and leather silhouette cuttings, delightful Chinese kites, embroidered paint-
ings, and clever palm and finger paintings, but sadly the hard sell is off-putting.
Shops along nearby
Old St
( aka Middle Fangbang Rd;
Click here
)
are more
ye olde, selling everything under the Shanghai sun from calligraphy to teapots,
memorabilia, woodcuts, reproduction 1930s posters and surreal 3D dazzle pho-
tos of kittens.
