Malls
People's Park Complex
Has numerous shops selling electronics, clothing, clocks, Chinese medicine and jewelery. Also, there are many massage parlours and travel agents.
Chinatown Point
A shopping mall that mainly sells handicrafts, there are other shops selling gifts and watches as well as beauty salons.
Pearl's Centre
Labyrinthine old shopping mall with a bizarre assortment of stores, ranging from Buddhist paraphernalia most of the 2nd/3rd floors to sexy underwear for men two shops in the basement and everything in between. The Yangtze cineplex, infamous for showing only notionally arty soft-porn movies, is located on the fourth floor.
OG People's Park
Sells a wide range of department store merchandise, well known brands such as Adidas, Giordano and Billabong have counters in the building. On the fifth floor, there is a food section selling mainly Korean products, with a Westlake cafe on the third floor.
Shops
Bee Cheng Hiang
Bee Cheng Hiang is the most famous bak kwa brand, with 28 outlets throughout Singapore.
Lim Chee Guan
The local favourite for this treat, with 3-4 hour queues with news crews filming this event from time to time around the Chinese New Year period. Tastier than the competition, but harder to find as it has only two outlets.
Tea Chapter
Covered under Drink, this store also retails a wide variety of not only Chinese tea itself, but all the paraphernalia needed to brew it.
Yue Hwa
Prominently located in central Chinatown, this stately building was originally built in 1936 as Chinatown's top hotel. Today, it's a six-floor emporium of Chinese products, from traditional medicine on the first floor, complete with deer horns and dried bats, to porcelain and furniture on the sixth. The sweeping lobby on the second floor now houses an amazing array of Chinese tea, ranging from $1.40/100g looseleaf and $3 cups to pedigreed $18,000 pu erh and $80,000 teapots.
Among the Chinese, the obligatory souvenir is some sweet red bak kwa barbequed pork, available both fresh off the grill and in convenient vacuum packs.
Fragrance
Fragrance is another famous brand of bak kwa, with 20 outlets throughout Singapore.