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Kai Xuan Men Dasha is an unassuming four-story mall on the far side of Jing'an district near Suzhou Creek. The mall is four floors: the first three floors are a collection of small stores selling secret blends of herbs and spices. They have everything from what you usually find at run-of-the-mill Chinese medicine stores (i.e. sacks and glass jars of dried mushrooms and various roots), to sexual performance enhancers including the African Superman" penis enlargement pills and female pills that al ...
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AP Plaza is Pudong's biggest , located underground in Metro Line 2's Science & Technology Museum station. The northern half of AP Plaza, called Xinyang, is a collection of stalls, touts, and greedy salespeople out to rip-off unsuspecting tourists with fake, Fake, FAKE goods of all stripes. As a general rule of thumb, offer 10% of the original asking price, and settle for somewhere between 10% and 30%. Bargain hard, carry cash, and be prepared to walk away from a bunch of stalls before settlin ...
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The downtown . You'll find fake goods all over Shanghai, but Fenshine has conveniently jammed hundreds of stalls, touts, and greedy salespeople together under one roof. It's the epicenter of IP violation in downtown Shanghai (there's another one in Pudong, at Metro Line 2's Science & Technology Museum station). Everything here is fake, fake, fake and the opening asking prices are astronomical. As a rule of thumb, start by offering 10% of the seller's asking price and settle for somewhere betw ...
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City Plaza or Jiu Guang is an upmarket department store housing the latest fashion brands, Japanese Supermarket and restaurants.