After finding the Pearl Market website for the UK I continued hunting on the internet and found reviews on TripAdvisor for a Pearl Market in Beijing. It seems to be a multi-storey building with a seawater pearl department at the top and other floors of gift below.
As is often the case in China, lots of bargaining.
When I was in Shanghai we were taken to jewellery factories as part of a private tour with two of us in a taxi. One of our stops was at a ground level store the size of a small supermarket. Every counter had a different seller hoping to sell their wares.
On another tour in China I went to another jewellery factory. I bought a very pretty ring with green and red stones. Unfortunately later one of the stones fell out of the claw clasps.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g294212-d321012-Reviews-Pearl_Market_Hongqiao_Market-Beijing.html
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/venue/Shops__Services-Markets/2209/Hongqiao-International-Pearl-City-.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
As is often the case in China, lots of bargaining.
When I was in Shanghai we were taken to jewellery factories as part of a private tour with two of us in a taxi. One of our stops was at a ground level store the size of a small supermarket. Every counter had a different seller hoping to sell their wares.
On another tour in China I went to another jewellery factory. I bought a very pretty ring with green and red stones. Unfortunately later one of the stones fell out of the claw clasps.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g294212-d321012-Reviews-Pearl_Market_Hongqiao_Market-Beijing.html
http://www.timeoutshanghai.com/venue/Shops__Services-Markets/2209/Hongqiao-International-Pearl-City-.html
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
