Plan your Qinghai Tour? What and where to buy in Qinghai? Xining is regarded as a shoppers' paradise in Qinghai due to various local products.
What to buy in Qinghai?
Local special products in Qinghai are : Marmot skin, dark purple budge, Tibetan knife, Chinese caterpillar fungus, fritillaria, pilose antler, Chinese pear-leaved crabapple, yacon, Qaidam medlar, barley wine, notopterygium, Xining rhubarb, etc. Qinghai diet flavors has rich Qinghai plateau characteristics and ethnic style, color, smell, taste and shape are in accordance with its archaic customs with people of all nationalities, and it is harmony with frontier fortress feeling. Even some foods are from the mainland, in Qinghai it has been recreated and improved into a strong plateau flavor food.
Guoluo caterpillar fungus
Guoluo caterpillar fungus is mainly distributed throughout shaded slopes, semi-shaded slopes and boscage on the mountain meadows at altitudes from from 4,000 to 4,800 meters. It is vertically and intensively distributed in areas around Animaqin Snow Mountain.Guoluo
Tibetan autonomous prefecture is in the eastern part of the
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Due to the special ecological environment of Guoluo, a variety of medicinal plants thrive in most parts of the prefecture. They include caterpillar fungus (cordyceps sinensis), Chinese rhubarb (rheum officinale), Rhodiola rosea, female ginseng (angelica sinensis) and Sichuan lovage (ligusticum wallichii).
Where to buy?
No.1: Xining Wangfujing Shopping Mall
Located in downtown Xining, the capital of
Qinghai province, Xining Wangfujing Shopping Mall is one of the largest shopping malls in the city and the 16th branch opened by the Wangfujing Group.
The mall started trial operations in October 2005 and officially opened in November the same year. It covers a building area of 25,800 square meters.
The shopping mall has two buildings and has clustered over 300 famous brands, restaurants and a cinema. The negative first floor of Building B contains a supermarket where customers can buy local products such as yak meat, yogurt, medlar and other fruits.
Address: 40 West Ave, Chengzhong district, Xining,
Qinghai province
Tel: +86-971-8236111
Opening hours: 9 am to 10 pm
Official website: http://xnwfj.com/index.asp (Chinese)
No.2: Dashizi Shopping Mall
Dashizi Shopping Mall, located on East Avenue in Xining, is a comprehensive shopping center with a long history.The whole mall has seven floors, with the first negative floor housing a supermarket selling local specialties such as medlar and yak meat.
Address: 53 East Ave, Chengzhong district, Xining,
Qinghai province
Tel: +86-971-6115262
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