Qingdao is famous in Shandong for its variety of commercial products, from the well renowned Laoshan mineral water to its shell carvings. The main shopping and commercial street runs along Zhongshan Lu, although most of the shops here are either clothing or food orientated. If it is your wardrobe that you are after then this road, along with the Longshan Underground Market (Longshan dixia shangye jie) below Xinhaoshan park (Xinhaoshan gongyuan), are your best bet.

Central Hong Kong Rd

Jimo Lu market

Zhong Shan Lu

Taidong Pedestrian Street

As the best area for buying stuff, Taidong Pedestrian Street is Very bustling, especially at night when the peddlers come out and you can buy all manner of trinkets, clothing, household wares, etc.

Central Hong Kong Rd

To provision yourself, head out to this area. Carrefour sells grocery, food, and small electronics. It has a KFC. Jusco is part shopping mall, part grocery store and part department store. MyKal is an eight floor department store with a movie theatre on the top and a grocery store in the basement. Sunshine is a department store across from Carrefour that sells upmarket goods. The Hisense shopping centre located behind Jusco has many luxury goods stores, and a grocery store with possibly the best selection of western foods in Qingdao.

Jimo Lu market

Do not miss this market, a great place to buy knock off Gucci, Prada, Louis Vitton as well as local retail goods. Recently refurbished and opening new shops across the street in a new plaza, it will soon become one of Qingdao's most popular retail markets.

Zhong Shan Lu

Recently retrofitted for 2008, still boasts some of the oldest shops in Qingdao.