1- One more time, no such thing as street vendors in Beijing. Maybe you can show us the youtube video. Never seen street vendors in my 10 years in Beijing.

2- For sure it's safe, even at 3am.

Well JP, go in the evening in a weekend to the Chongwenmen area and you will find them all over :-)

Also on some of the pedestrian bridges over big streets you will find them. At yashu market for instance.

And illegal sales people you find always in the Wangfujing area and near silk street. They just pop-up and disappear quickly. Temple of Heaven park in the weekends has plenty of elderly ladies selling hand made things, trying to avoid the guards.

So if you haven't seen them in 10 years, better to buy new glasses :-)

Hi Bepu and JP....

This is one of few youtube videos that I saw:Wangfujing Street Market Beijing China: http://youtu.be/i7MuD0X7HpY

I know this video is from a long time ago. But since the snack street is still there, maybe the souvenir alley is too.

This is the street I mentioned in my first post. The entrance is at Wangfujing street it self. At the left side if you walk in north direction. About 100m from where the pedestrian area starts.

There was a misunderstanding about what you call street vending. These are just little shops.

Those shops and street vendors are always there, at the first intersection on WFJ from the main road, behind Beijing Hotel.

At the other end of WFJ, just blocks away is a might open air food market with 1-2 blocks long of food stalls.

There is also a very busy street similar to this market called Rowguhsiang, not the right spelling, much bigger with interesting small shops and restaurants, some small stalls, near Beihai area, north of the Imperial Palace. We had a lot of fun there. Local experts have the right name, worth a trip.

All safe any hours.

Nanluoguxiang is the correct name for this busy shopping and food street.

Hi,

You use the term street vendors - which means people who sell from a blanket or table on the sidewalk. Or do you mean little shops?

That area of Wangfujing is not so much street vendors (pop ups), its just small shops. Wangfujing snack Street and Donghuamen night market is more about eating, not street vendors that pop up.

Nanluoguxiang is a wonderful hutong street. No street vendors but plenty of quirky little shops and some small restaurants & bars. Its best visited well after 10am ( as a lot of the shops wont be open) and its better to go in the evening as it has a great atmosphere.

Nanluoguxiang runs south to north and if you go to the northern end and turn left in Gulou Dongdajie you can find a very, very small smattering of night time street vendors there. As Bepu & JP mentions its illegal so they may or may not be there.

Also a lot of the street vendors that do pop up within Beijing have stuff that you can find elsewhere and are not very interesting.

2) Re Foot massage, do you mean this thread ? tripadvisor.com.au/…60276670

That area is very safe. Just dont go with someone that approaches you on the street. Stick with the reputable massage places.

Annie

hallo...

bepu and macbcmini: so this street is about 100m from south end of wangfujing street, behind Beijing Hotel. Noted. Always thought this street was on the east side of Wangfujing. Now I know.

Annie: I thought those souvenir sellers in the video were using "carts", which could be pushed away at the end of the day. Therefore I assumed they were called street vendors. Anyway....I am sorry for misunderstanding.

For foot massage, I will try Liangzi as suggested.

Thank you all for your time and explanations.

yongki

Hi Yongki

No worries & you don't need to apologize :-) Yes some of them do have carts.