We then spent the rest of the day shopping. Beijing is now groaning with malls housing all the big luxury names, and Wangfujing Street has been a famous shopping street in China for centuries. Why I don't know since it's just a big ugly mess filled with unattractive department stores. But there's no reason to come to Beijing for shopping, since 99 percent of what China makes fills your local WalMart anyway. So instead we just went to a couple of small streets that have miraculously missed being developed over, and now supposedly constitute Beijing's antiques district. All fake of course, but they are pretty streets to walk around. That is, if you can ignore the pleasant shopkeepers standing outside their shops yelling "Get in here!" at each passerby. After a stop at a local tea shop, we called it quits for the day and headed back to the hotel.