When it comes to shopping, this book will tell you where to get your tailoring done and where to buy the fabrics, where to buy jewelry or where to buy the stones to have it custom-made, where to buy real designer fashion clothing and how to tell it apart from the fakes, where to get great handbags, wallets, sportswear, men s fashion, children s fashion, miscellaneous accessories and more, loads more. Being in a different country and in a different kind of shopping venue, you ll also want some survival tricks. For example, how to behave in a shopping jungle, how to negotiate and how to get out of there will all of your marbles!
Shopping for a new home? Then you know that the soft accessories alone will bankrupt you. Well, this little book will lead you to shops that have a wide range of curtain and upholstery fabric and workshops of people who can make up whatever style you would like. At a great price! But there are pitfalls to this and it s best to read up on McNally s tips. You want to be well prepared!
It also turns out that Shenzhen is the world s furniture manufacturing hub. You ll find lots of places to shop for your home covered in the book with directions in Chinese to hand to the taxi driver. You think it might be tricky to buy furniture this far from home? You bet it is. Better read up on McNally s tips for buying furniture and shipping it from Shenzhen!
The New York Times listed Shenzhen as one of the best cities to visit in 2010. McNally provides a brief city guide with a list of her 10 favorite things to do in Shenzhen. For Apres-shopping , she guides her readers to Shenzhen s favorite pastimes, getting wonderful massages in the city s grand and inexpensive spas and playing golf in the numerous golf courses dotted in and around the city.