Shopping
In general you should be able to find whatever you are looking, however Urumqi is a bit more expansive then cities like Shanghai and Beijing especially if you are looking for imported products.
Groceries, throughout the city you will be able to find various supermarkets that have a foreign products area. Especially Carrefour and the Youhao Supermarkets have foreign selections where you can by pasta products, breakfast cereals, snacks, import milk etc. There are as well some smaller supermarkets close to the bazaar that have a selection of Turkish products. Most supermarkets have a bread section but also through out the city you can find bread shops like Aili and Breadtalk as well as some great Uyghur Naan shops.
Clothing, Urumqi has a large selection of shopping malls ranging from low to very expansive, here as well there is the Youhao shopping malls that have a selection of foreign brands.
If you where not able to find what you where looking for then there is always Taobao
Here are some locations:
- DanLu Plaza
Address: Xinhua North Road
- Eden (Herembag)
actually Herembag started as a restauratnt, that had a selection of foreign products for sale in the lobby area of the restaurant. however just after being only open for a short period they have increased the shop area, and they have a great bakery on the side. Really worth having a look here and while you there just try there restaurant as well.
Address: on the corner of Yan An Road and shengli Road
- Carrefour
Various Carrefours in Urumqi, all of them have some kind of imported section and various imported products.
- Youhao Supermarket
There are as well a couple of Youhao supermarkets throughout the city but the one at peoples square and Youhao Road are very nice and have good selections of foreign products.
- Online Shops
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