If they’re looking for cheap knockoff Apple computers, they go to acheap knockoff Apple store.
I’m not sure if any legit high-end handbags are made in China (I’d be surprised), but for example there are plenty of bootlegs made in China that are legit, I believe the term is actually legit bootlegs. The factory is under liscense to produce say 20,000 pairs of Jordans, and they make 20,000 for export and then an extra 20,000 to sell locally at cheaper Chinese prices.
It came off the same factory with the same tooling and patterns (wasn’t reverse engineered and made with cheap materials like we think of when we think knock offs) but it was still made illegally and isn’t an official nike product. So I don’t think that if there are any real bags that they’re “stolen” as in pilfered from the line of a factory.
In Shanghai, walk half a block off Nanjing Street and you are in a maze of alleys. We wen down to the basement store, it was full of fake purses, shirts with de alligators on, fancy down brand name coats,and so on. There was a place in Beijing, about 5 subway stops east of the Forbidden City, I think it was called the “Silk Market”; it was 6 floors of sales stalls, all with assorted products - mainly knockoffs of everything from toys to designer clothes. The fascinating place was the one floor with bolts of cloth - pick your fabric, they would make a custom suit in a short time. A market underground in front of the Science Building in Pudong there was a stall selling any conceivable software for $5 each. (Burned DVD’s).
Use google images for “beijing silk market”)
basically… they make it, they sell it, locally as well as overseas. The difference may be that the Chinese do not apply the same social cachet to brand names that they have in the west. (But they are learning fast. the hotel I stayed in was atop the Rolls and Bently dealerships, and the Ferrari was around the corner.) However, they have the factories and inputs (and patterns) to make just about anything; and some of it is for local consumption.
As a side note - they also have such absymal schlock - hard to describe, but makes dollar store tacky look classy - and they sell that in small shops too. So we were joking about “that’s what happens to the junk that can’t even be sold in Walmart.”
Oh, and Chinese should not be let anywhere near LED’s. The light shows in Hong Kong and Shanghai at night are something to see. However, when they start putting flashing multi-coloured lights in shoes, tops, fans, and you name it - something has to be done…
Considering we’re talking about bird down: username/post combo. 
‘Weird Al’ reference?
Gonna buy me a condo…
Yeah, I think you’re about 20 or 30 years too late to make that claim!
Chinese retail takes many forms, which are somewhat different than in the US. In this case, I’ll talk about clothing.
On the highest level, there are US and Chinese luxury brands that are sold in international standard retail outlets. Then, there are US and Chinese mid-high scale brands. These are where you find clothing in the $30-$75 range, which relatively out of reach in much of China. I am thinking here of Chinese brands like Vera Moda, YiShion and Only. These are sold in very well appointed retail outlets much like you’d expect from a high-end mall store in the US.
Additionally, these and other brands are sold in what appears to us as a sort of department store-mall hybrid. These shopping centers are organized like a department store, but generally each brand will have its own check out area.
Some of the US brands that are “high-end” in China can seem odd to us. Revlon and other drug store cosmetics are sold through fancy make-up counters in China. Budweiser is a premium import beer (!). Hagan Daz is a very expensive ice cream parlor and Pizza Hut is a sit down restaurant where you might take a date.
For ladies (I’m not sure what men do) there are also stores that sell qipaos (what you’d probably think of as traditional Chinese dresses). These can get pricey. This work is also sometimes done by tailor. You may spend $30-$80 on one, depending on the materials.
Anyway, after the nice stores, you have local mid-end boutiques aimed at younger and older people. These can be very nice and may feature unique clothing by local designers. There is a trend towards funny, well-designed printed tee-shirt boutiques that would be at home anywhere in the world. Other boutiques feature updated traditional Chinese clothing. There is also a trend towards unique beaded hippy-ish items imported from India. I’d guess a very nice tee shirt is around $15.
Lower-end boutiques feature cheap Chinglish tee shirts and other clothing items aimed at teens and college students. These will run $3-$10.
Next there are the massive flea-market style permanent markets, where you’ll have hundreds of tiny clothing stalls crammed into a large indoor space. Sometimes these stalls are well-decorated and have really cool stuff, other times it’s just cheap junk. These things get huge- the “little” one in my city was a massive basement that you could get lost in. In Chengdu, I’d sometimes visit one that was seven stories of thousands of maze-like stalls.
Then you get to the generic clothing outlets. These are usually massive affairs, with rack after rack of what you’d typically think of as cheap Chinese clothing- I’m talking sub-Walmart quality with tissue-thin cotton and the fakest fake leather. You won’t pay more than $5.00 for an item. The primary audience for these is broke young people, overstretched families, and people who just like to shop. Some of these outlets offer bulk discounts.
Finally, you have the real cheap stuff. This is really the only place you are going to find imitation western brands on any large scale (and often you’ll have three or four western brands cheaply printed on an item.) These are sold, often still in their plastic bags from the factory, in street markets and general-purpose neighborhood shops.
Pretty much all of it is made in China. While there are cheaper places to manufacture clothing, it’s not worth the supply chain hassles.
Truly, we have much to learn from them.
How does Pizza Hut work in a country where most adults are lactose intolerant?
Most cheese is very low lactose, and lactose intolerance is a spectrum. China has a newly booming milk and yogurt industry, and eating dairy is increasingly seen as a way to grow healthy and strong. That said, cheese isn’t widely appreciated among Chinese people, and mostly it is tolerated as a “weird foreign food.”
Pizza Hut in China also sells a full selection of entrees (both “Western” and Chinese), appetizers, desserts and fancy coffee drinks (very trendy and upscale these days.)
A warning about cheap Chinese knock-offs-the Chinese (obviously) can make high-quality copies-and they do. But the low end stuff is horrible-I recently had to replace a faucet-it was a brand sold by a major hardware chain-instead of being made of cast brass or bronze (as a high quality American, german, or Italian made fixture would be), it was made from “white metal” (a cheap zinc alloy). The thing broke while I was removing the valve cartridge-so down to the store to buy a new one. Beware Chinese-made “leather” furniture-it looks nice, but after a few years the cheap (thin) leather wears and tears. But “designer” clothing is kind nof a paradox-most of it is not made to be worn more than one season (the style goes out of date)…so flimsy construction isn’t an issue. I have seen $3000 Chanel dresses ta a resale shop for $200-why pay a lot if you are going to throw the thing away?
There’s no salad bar at the Pizza Hut here. You order the salad and you get one salad, no refills.