Shopping in Yangshuo

Yangshuo is just a small county, so you won't find international supermarkets here, but there are several smaller scale supermarkets that have good quality and reasonable prices, such as Ninety-nine Supermarket and Lele Lai Supermarket. If you want to buy some colorful gifts, Yangshuo is an ideal place to satisfy your shopping desires. At the weekend market in Yangshuo, you can find many delicate handicrafts, nice souvenirs and good quality clothing.
There are three well-known handicrafts from this region: Zhuang embroidery and painted fans. Zhuang embroidery has many different styles made out of silk, most featuring different animals and special colors. The fans are available in various sizes but all are made of either silk or paper with bamboo supports. Painted fans undergo a series of processes including dyeing, mounting and painting with lacquer before they are ready for retail. Local painters in Yangshuo cater to foreign tastes, depicting birds, flowers, insects and traditional Chinese girls.
Another enjoyable evening activity is to hire a motorboat for about 60 RMB per person to watch cormorant fishermen at work. The fishermen take their seabirds out to hunt fish at night, generally setting off at 8:00 pm and fishing until 2:00 am. For an hour-and-a-half, tour boats will putter along the fisherman's bamboo rafts so tourists can watch cormorants dive for fish. Many foreigners choose to take a boat ride on the Li River in the evening for its beauty and solitude.
West Street is the most popular place to start your shopping in Yangshuo adventure. Yangshuo does
not have any big shopping centers (for those you need to go to Guilin or other cities) but instead there are plenty of small shops selling all kinds of unique goods which are sometimes hard to find elsewhere. As said, West Street is probably the best destination to shop but other streets, East Street is trying hard to equal West Street, have shops and hawker stalls too. This page gives you an idea what you find.
Recommend for Shopping:
● West Street
West Street is where the tourists go shopping. If you want to see how the locals do it, head to the marketplace. There's not a lot you'll want to buy in the marketplace unless you're shopping for a freshly butchered chicken, but it's an interesting visit.
● Antique Shops
There are many antique stores on West Street. There you will find all kinds of really old antiques and at all these shops you can bargain.