Shopping on Canal Street

WHO: your fake designer accessory loving' self
WHAT: Shopping on Canal Street! Chinatown couture!
WHEN: Mornings or early afternoons during the week. There's pretty much always going to be annoying tourists, but its sort of entertaining to see them getting ripped off so terribly by old Asian ladies.
WHERE: The prime shopping areas pretty much lay between Canal Street to the north, Broome street to the south, and between Centre and Bowery. Take the JMZ to Canal street and wander around.
WHY: Sometimes, you just decide that you need a massive, fake, Louis Vuitton suitcase, which can easily be supplied by one of the hundreds of quasi-legal street vendors on Canal Street. Or maybe, you get a hankering for a hobo bag with a slightly eschew designer tag reading 'PRADO' (which will fall off in a few days anyways). Besides fake designer bags, there's massive amounts of sparkly cheap jewelry, cool scarves (HAGGLE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT FOR THESE), sunglasses and cheap souvenir shit. Avoid the souvenir shit, obviously. Unless you are a tourist. Then pay highest price and LEAVE.

HINT: Make a game plan. Most of the shops have the same 20 purses, so figure out which one you want, then go into a brand new shop, look bored, wait for the vendor to start making deals, act like you want to leave, then drop a low ball on them and WALK OUT THE DOOR if they do not accept. Chances are they will chase you down and agree to your price. And now you are a Serious Canal Street Shopper. Congrats.

I give it:

/ 10

FIVE OUT OF TEN HAPPY BRUCE FACES