TAWA5 Best Shopping Experience

Stuff, glo­ri­ous stuff,  oh how we love to take you home with us.  These are the places we go to win­dow lick, tire kick and buy, buy, buy.  Love your work, peo­ple.

Japan City
The for­mer Hal­len­steins build­ing on Cuba Mall has a cheer­ful new ten­ant.  Japan City is home to faux brand­ed goods, home­ware, and plen­ty of adorable cul­tur­al­ly con­fused items.

Cul­tured Petone
Wendy Adams escaped from the pub­lic ser­vice and is now pro­vid­ing a much bet­ter ser­vice — act­ing as a cheese pimp in Petone. Cul­tured Petone stocks all kinds of cheeses from bou­tique pro­duc­ers around New Zealand, as well as oth­er edi­ble good­ies and cheese-relat­ed accou­ter­ments. You can get cof­fee, sand­wich­es and Rush Munro ice cream to eat in store, sign up for a cheese-mak­ing class or just mar­vel at Wendy’s mag­i­cal enthu­si­asm and clear love of what she’s doing.

Swon­der­ful
This moth­er and daugh­ter run ven­ture has been thriv­ing since its move from Brook­lyn to Vic­to­ria Street in cen­tral Welly. Stocked with cute frocks and oth­er super girly clothes, Swon­der­ful has their very own label, Paper­cup, to show off as well. They also have plen­ty of jew­ellery, sta­tionery and the odd zine to fos­sick through.

Moore Wilson’s Fresh

Recent­ly rede­vel­oped to open it up to the “gen­tri­fied” Col­lege Street, Moore Wil­son will over­pow­er you with its glo­ri­ous smell when you walk past — a mix­ture of fresh pro­duce, cut flow­ers, fresh baked bread and the antic­i­pa­tion of all the glo­ri­ous cheese and choco­late inside. Although we’re secret­ly a lit­tle sad you no longer need a club card to shop there, it’s a great place to load up on food, or to just pop into for a few things.

Madame Fan­cy Pants
Fan­cy as and con­sis­tent­ly rat­ed as a top shop­ping expe­ri­ence. MFP is choc­ka with the hand­made and the bespoke, and the staff always make you feel just super when you drop buy for a browse. Song­bird pro­pri­etress Claire Ter­ry stocks the shop with her own jew­ellery between gig­ging around town and rais­ing her fan­cy lit­tle man.
Phew!
Love your work.