Just Look At the Pictures and Prices

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>> I know it must feel like it's all been a bit "Oh look… there I am in a magazine!" posting-wise… but I promise I'm really only posting this for the sake of being informative…

I do have a very sprawling mass of a London Shops Google Map (which needs updating in some places… working on it!) and I know I do refer people to it knowing that it might be somewhat confusing because there are SO MANY shops on it.  That said, I also find it difficult to break down my favourite places to shop which is sort of dependent on… what area I'm in, what mood, the weather, monetary status, what am I looking for, what day, what time of the day, what food can I procure nearby… in otherwords an overall top 10 in London for me is pretty impossible.

For a Hong Kong magazine Weekend Weekly (sort of like a newspaper supplement) I took them around a few spots around my local vicinity as well as getting them to investigate The Shop on Cheshire Street, Shop 172 and The Lazy Ones.  I think this gives a pretty good overview of a day where I might take the 43 bus down for a morning (EARLY!) shopping gander, have lunch at Elk and the Woods in Angel, then if I'm bothered, head on down to Brick Lane and finish up in Story Deli … Saturday, rather than Sunday… sunny with a breeze (22 degrees celcius…), and if I'm feeling fairly flush with the cash.  Basically, I'm an unpredictable weather-sensitive weird lifeform whose life revolves around meal times.

It's all in Chinese of course but me thinks the pics, captions and the few bits of English are fairly self-explanatory…

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My Sugarland needs no introduction but in true Far East Asian-magazine-style, they've picked out some of the store's products and have laid them out along with prices and it's all very helpful, practical and demonstrative…

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Note: The little quotes they have floating over aren't my actual words…because errr… some of it makes sort of no grammatical sense…it's a sort of Chinglish way of writing that I can never really understand…

I wish I could have taken away these John Rocha shoes and the Irwin and Jordan waistcoat I was wearing…

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Palette is somewhere I haven't written about before… namely because I always got too scared to explain to the owner that I'm a blogger etc etc etc.  It does have an amazing vintage collection though and I found out the owner has over 600 pieces that consists of couture Dior, Givenchy, Alaia, Chanel… I may try and probe him for a peek into his collection…

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And of course the Brick Lane trio you know all about from previous posts… I haven't actually frequented the trio of late… waiting for the right type of sky, a hankering for crispy crusty pizzas and maybe a smidge more moolah….

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29 comments

  4. love the chinglish! i really should become more acquainted with London shopping, I’m from a town only an hour train ride away but I always go to Birmingham instead. it must be so bizarre seeing yourself in a magazine. congrats on your vogue feature, i read it yesterday!

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  26. You are introduced as a Hong Kong girl living in New York. I’d like to know when you moved to New York. I envy your job and your English….- –

  27. Oh so cool! I like Chinglish I like your style!)))那么好！！！

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