The best fashion and gift stores Hong Kong Island 香港岛

Western Market is a beautiful Edwardian building, restored in 1991, home to about Chinese fabrics and Crafts shops. In the vicinity (Bonham Strand East and West, Sutherland Street, Wing Lok Street…), the streets carve out an impressive wholesale market of all kinds of medicinal plants and terrestrial or salted marine or sea-to-sea (to each evil). These stores feed the city's herboristeries and represent the mainstay of Chinese medicine. A walk not to be missed. There is nothing to be impressed with the quantities exposed and the appearance of certain products that are difficult to identify (dried snakes, giant mussels, deer horns), all nicely and perfectly presented.

Three signs in Hong Kong. Very nice bookstores where one likes to stroll to find travel guides and maps around the world. Many books in all languages are also available.

Festival Walk: Level Ground, 80 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong. Tel: (852) 2778.

Harbour City: Level 3, Township Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. Tel: (852) 2730.

Times Square: Level 9, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay. Tel: (852) 2506.

There are used Cds and Dvds.

Page One, founded in 1983 in Singapore by Mark Tan, is a large chain of bookstores specializing in the sale of English-language books. Over the years, it has also sought to develop the market for books in Chinese. Today, Page One still has three branches in mainland China.

If you are interested in oriental medicine, through therapy, beauty, movies and politics, you will probably find your happiness in the largest alternative bookstore on the island.