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Where Muslims Hang Out in Yiwu: Shisha Lounges, Arab Cafés, Barbers, Football & Late Nights

32places Muslims hang out

Yiwu’s nightlife pages are written for people who drink. This one is not. After the market shuts, the traders on Chouzhou North Road move to the shisha cafés, the 24-hour Arab coffee rooms with the match on, the dessert counters that stay open past midnight, the Turkish barber, and — on Friday — from the mosque to lunch to a long afternoon. Every place below is on Amap (address, hours, phone) and, unless marked, named by at least one public visitor post.

Friday: from the mosqueSkip to shisha
How to read this page

Cafés, not bars — and what we could not check

Two kinds of ‘shisha’ exist in Yiwu now. The Arab café kind — coffee and tea by day, shisha at night, mostly Middle Eastern and African regulars — is what this page lists. The Chinese cocktail-bar kind (whisky, ‘Beverly Hills style’, opened 2025–26 around Chaoyangmen) is named at the bottom only so you can avoid it. Where a listing says “Alcohol: not checked yet”, ask before you sit; the café-type places we list are marked that way because neither Amap nor the visitor posts say either way, and we will not guess.

till 02:00 = closing time on the Amap listingNo alcohol = stated by a visitor or the listingAlcohol: not checked = askfamily / women note = from a visitor postAmap listing only = no visitor post names it yet

Tap any card for the Chinese address (show the driver), phone, hours, Amap / Apple / Google buttons and the photos. Photos are the shop’s own Amap listing or a Xiaohongshu post that names the shop, never another shop’s.

Shisha lounges 水烟馆

Café-style shisha rooms where the crowd is the Chouzhou North Road trade community: a pot is ¥60–100 and lasts a group a couple of hours. IMAX Homie (Binwang 158 creative park) and Purey (Chouzhou North Road 171, 24 h) are the two visitors name most; Istanbul Cafe and Sultan on Exotic Street also serve shisha with tea and dessert.

Shisha lounges — Inside at IMAX Homie Lounge (shisha)
Shisha lounges · Inside at IMAX Homie Lounge (shisha) IMAX HOMIE LOUNGE 水烟馆 · Photo: @WhiteDew via Xiaohongshu
IMAX Homie Lounge (shisha) — On site
Shisha lounge · 31 min · till 04:305
@WhiteDew

IMAX Homie Lounge (shisha)

Price not reported

IMAX Homie Lounge (shisha)

IMAX HOMIE LOUNGE 水烟馆
Shisha lounge

Mostly foreign crowd, ¥70 a pot, open till 4:30.

Purey Coffee (Hampton branch, 24 h) — Food
Shisha lounge · 3.3 km · till 24 h6
@💜宓lucy

Purey Coffee (Hampton branch, 24 h)

Price not reported

Purey Coffee (Hampton branch, 24 h)

Purey Coffee 悦咖啡（欢朋店）
Shisha lounge

24-hour Arab-run café with shisha, ¥68 a pot.

Baya Café & Shisha (Culture Market) — On site
Shisha lounge · 31 min · till 03:00
Amap listing

Baya Café & Shisha (Culture Market)

Price not reported

Baya Café & Shisha (Culture Market)

Baya 芭雅咖啡水烟（文化市场）
Shisha lounge

Small café on the ‘coffee street’, any flavour mixed to order.

Habibi Shisha (café) — On site
Shisha lounge · 26 min · till 02:003
Amap listing

Habibi Shisha (café)

Price not reported

Habibi Shisha (café)

Habibi shisha（咖啡厅）
Shisha lounge

Café-style shisha at Chouzhou North Road 489.

Not on this list on purpose

  • So Lounge (County Front East Street 106, Chaoyangmen ‘bar street’) — whisky, cocktails and shisha; visitors say the lights go down at 8 pm and the drinking starts.
  • Ten to One Hookah House, Mimapan 密码盘 (opened Sept 2026) and the ‘Moroccan-style shisha bar’ posts from August 2026 — all cocktail bars with shisha, not cafés.
  • Any place whose Amap category is 酒吧 / bar: Russian Heart, Hookah Bar on Santing Road, etc.

Named from public Xiaohongshu posts and Amap categories; listed only so a visitor searching “shisha Yiwu” does not walk into a bar.

Arab & Turkish cafés — and where the match is on 阿拉伯 / 土耳其咖啡馆 · 看球

The International Building corner (Chouzhou North Road × Binwang Road) has three 24-hour Arab-run cafés within 100 m of each other — M Cafe, 7% and Shumile — plus Cafe Turka behind District 1 for a quiet Turkish coffee with the Turkish owner. In June 2026 a visitor found the World Cup playing loud at 7%; during the season ask which café has which league on. District 6 (Global Digital Trade Centre) also ran a big-screen World Cup square with food stalls.

Arab & Turkish cafés — Outside at M Cafe (International Building, 24 h)
Arab & Turkish cafés · Outside at M Cafe (International Building, 24 h) M CAFE 咖啡（国际大厦店） · Photo: @教主 via Xiaohongshu
Purey Coffee (Yinhai branch, 24 h) — Inside
Café · 10 min · till 24 h
@快乐小mo

Purey Coffee (Yinhai branch, 24 h)

Price not reported

Purey Coffee (Yinhai branch, 24 h)

Purey Coffee 悦咖啡（银海店）
Café

‘Almost everyone here is foreign’ — Arab baristas.

M Cafe (International Building, 24 h) — Outside
Café · 31 min · till 24 h6
@教主

M Cafe (International Building, 24 h)

Price not reported

M Cafe (International Building, 24 h)

M CAFE 咖啡（国际大厦店）
Café

Turkish and Arabic coffee, shisha, open all night.

7% Coffee (Binwang Road, 24 h) — Food
Café · 29 min · till 24 h6
@桃子桃子么么哒

7% Coffee (Binwang Road, 24 h)

Price not reported

7% Coffee (Binwang Road, 24 h)

7% COFFEE（宾王路218号）
Café

World Cup on the screen, Turkish coffee, shisha.

Shumile Café (Arabic café-restaurant, Binwang Road) — On site
Café · 31 min · till 24 h3
Amap listing

Shumile Café (Arabic café-restaurant, Binwang Road)

Price not reported

Shumile Café (Arabic café-restaurant, Binwang Road)

舒米勒咖啡（国际大厦店）
Café

Arabic sofas and lamps, shawarma set ¥30-odd.

Dago Coffee (Ethiopian café) — On site
Café · 3.1 km · till 03:003
Amap listing

Dago Coffee (Ethiopian café)

~$7/person

Dago Coffee (Ethiopian café)

埃塞俄比亚餐厅 Dago Coffee 定格咖啡
Café

Ethiopian coffee on Chouzhou North Road, till 3 am.

Desserts, juice and late-night food after 9 pm 甜品 · 果汁 · 夜宵

Leifeng’s Egyptian juice counters run to 01:30–03:00 depending on the branch; Sweet Life’s Binwang creative-park shop is listed 24 h; MADO, Bayt Jiddi, Dahab and Bako’s garden cover Turkish, Syrian and Palestinian sweets. Sweetheart in Xinguanghui is the Emirati-owned bakery visitors mention for Dubai chocolate.

Desserts, juice & late-night — Dish at Bako's Garden Restaurant (Turkish sweets & tea)
Desserts, juice & late-night · Dish at Bako's Garden Restaurant (Turkish sweets & tea) bako's · 八哥花园餐厅（新光汇店） · Photo: @叶总早上好 via Xiaohongshu
Sweetheart Bakery (Emirati-owned, Xinguanghui) — On site
Dessert · 9 min · till 22:002
Amap listing

Sweetheart Bakery (Emirati-owned, Xinguanghui)

Price not reported

Sweetheart Bakery (Emirati-owned, Xinguanghui)

Sweetheart 甜心烘焙（新光汇购物中心店）
Dessert

Emirati owner; Dubai chocolate at ¥80 a slab.

IKRAM Turkish Desserts (Chengzhong North Road) — On site
Dessert · 3.1 km · till 23:303
Amap listing

IKRAM Turkish Desserts (Chengzhong North Road)

Price not reported

IKRAM Turkish Desserts (Chengzhong North Road)

伊礼土耳其甜品 iKRAM Turkish Desserts（城中北路店）
Dessert

Turkish dessert counter till 23:30, ~¥26.

Still serving after 11 pm — halal grills and kitchens

Closing times are visitor-reported or from the Amap listing; A Hot Chilli (Binwang) is the one visitors cite for 3 am, Senator for 2 am. Full details on Exotic Street and Indian & Pakistani.

Muslim barbers: Turkish, Arab, Pakistani 穆斯林理发店

Four barbers with Turkish or Arab names sit within the Binwang Market / Chouzhou North Road blocks — Tanko’s Turkish Barber (Binwang Market C, till 02:00, ~¥100 on Amap) is the one with a second branch. None of them has a Xiaohongshu post yet: Chinese visitors do not write about foreign barbers. Listed from Amap only — tell us which one you use.

Muslim barbers — On site at Arafat Barber Shop (Yijiashan)
Muslim barbers · On site at Arafat Barber Shop (Yijiashan) ARAFAT Barber shop（义驾山52幢5号） · Photo: Amap listing
Tanko’s Turkish Barber (Binwang Market C) — On site
Barber · 30 min · till 02:002
Amap listing

Tanko’s Turkish Barber (Binwang Market C)

Price not reported

Tanko’s Turkish Barber (Binwang Market C)

Tanko's Turkish Barber（宾王市场C区1楼38号）
Barber

Turkish barber till 2 am, ~¥100 on Amap.

Arab’s Barber (Chouzhou North Road × Binwang 8th Street) — On site
Barber · 3.4 km
Amap listing

Arab’s Barber (Chouzhou North Road × Binwang 8th Street)

Price not reported

Arab’s Barber (Chouzhou North Road × Binwang 8th Street)

Arab's Barber（稠州北路与宾王商贸区八街口）
Barber

Arab barber on the Exotic Street corner.

photo wantedMustafa Men’s Barber (Gongren North Road 318)
Barber · 28 minphoto wanted
No photo yet

Mustafa Men’s Barber (Gongren North Road 318)

Price not reported

Mustafa Men’s Barber (Gongren North Road 318)

MUSTAFA男士理发店（工人北路318街62号）
Barber

Men’s barber with a Turkish name, behind the market.

Arafat Barber Shop (Yijiashan) — On site
Barber · 32 min3
Amap listing

Arafat Barber Shop (Yijiashan)

Price not reported

Arafat Barber Shop (Yijiashan)

ARAFAT Barber shop（义驾山52幢5号）
Barber

Barber in the Yijiashan blocks, near Daata.

Women: the barbers above are men’s shops. Women-only salons exist in the city centre (several visitor posts describe ‘women-only’ studios near Yiwu Zhixin mall) but none is Muslim-run as far as we can verify — we list none rather than guess.

Football, five-a-side and the rest 足球 · 五人制 · 健身 · 台球

Where foreigners actually play: visitors describe games with Azerbaijani, Colombian and Algerian players in summer 2026, and ‘lots of African guys playing’ at the Botanical Garden football park in Futian (free, 24 h on Amap). The other pitches are Amap-listed only. Gyms, cricket and billiards: we have not verified a single venue foreigners use — none yet.

Football pitches — On site at Jiangbin riverside pitch (Jiangbin North Road)
Football pitches · On site at Jiangbin riverside pitch (Jiangbin North Road) 江滨绿廊足球场 · Photo: Amap listing
Botanical Garden Football Park (Futian) — On site
Football pitch · 35 min · till 24 h3
Amap listing

Botanical Garden Football Park (Futian)

Price not reported

Botanical Garden Football Park (Futian)

义乌市城投体育植物园足球公园
Football pitch

Free pitches where visitors saw African players.

Yiwu Football Park (Xicheng North Road) — On site
Football pitch · 4.0 km · till 21:003
Amap listing

Yiwu Football Park (Xicheng North Road)

Price not reported

Yiwu Football Park (Xicheng North Road)

义乌市足球公园
Football pitch

Bookable pitches, ~¥40 on Amap.

Kaka five-a-side pitch (Qingbo Road) — On site
Football pitch · 25 min · till 22:002
Amap listing

Kaka five-a-side pitch (Qingbo Road)

Price not reported

Kaka five-a-side pitch (Qingbo Road)

卡卡足球场（清波路）
Football pitch

Five-a-side next to the tennis centre, till 22:00.

Jiangbin riverside pitch (Jiangbin North Road) — On site
Football pitch · 22 min · till 23:003
Amap listing

Jiangbin riverside pitch (Jiangbin North Road)

Price not reported

Jiangbin riverside pitch (Jiangbin North Road)

江滨绿廊足球场
Football pitch

Riverside pitch, open till 23:00.

What visitors say about playing here

Quoted from public Xiaohongshu (小红书) posts and comments, translated by us; authors are shown as Xiaohongshu masks them. Our own visits and reader reviews come after launch. How we choose quotes

在义乌踢球 今天认识了新朋友 两个来自阿塞拜疆，还有一个来自哥伦比亚。世界义乌名不虚传

Playing football in Yiwu, made new friends today: two from Azerbaijan and one from Colombia. ‘World Yiwu’ lives up to its name.

@张*** · Xiaohongshu · 2026-07
Been there
Online reviews are not open yet. You can send a listing correction through the contact page or its WhatsApp link. See the planned Community Guidelines.

Gyms, cricket, billiards: we haven’t verified any yet. Amap lists dozens of gyms and billiard halls but no visitor post connects one to the foreign community, and there is no cricket ground on Amap at all. If your team plays somewhere, send it via Contact.

Friday: from Jummah to the evening

The Friday rhythm visitors describe: Jummah at Yiwu Mosque (thousands of traders, women need a headscarf), the grill and juice stalls opposite the gate, then a slow afternoon before the cafés fill. Prayer times are calculated live on the mosque page.

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Jummah at Yiwu Mosque

Arrive early on Friday; the street outside fills with stalls — grilled chicken by the jin, lamb ribs, pomegranate juice, skewers, pulao and nang (visitor, Dec 2023). Hand-torn lamb at Make’s is a two-minute walk.

Yiwu Mosque — On siteMake's Dongxiang Hand-Torn Lamb — Dish
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Lunch on Exotic Street

Ten minutes by taxi to Chouzhou North Road: Yemeni mandi at Sinbad (the 12:30 mandi rule), Turkish at Beyti or Razan, Pakistani at Daata. Yemeni rooms fill fastest after Jummah.

Sinbad Restaurant — DishBeyti Restaurant — DishDaata Pakistani Restaurant — Dish
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Afternoon and evening

Turkish coffee at Cafe Turka behind District 1, a walk through Little Europe next to the market, then shisha at IMAX Homie or Purey when the traders arrive after 9 pm.

Cafe Turka (Turkish coffee house) — Dish‘Little Europe’ (European-style street) — OutsideIMAX Homie Lounge (shisha) — On site

Ramadan nights

During Ramadan the same cafés reverse their day: quiet until iftar, then open until suhoor. The iftar restaurants, the night market timing and where to eat before dawn are on Ramadan & Iftar in Yiwu; Duantou, the halal night market, is on the night market page.

Bringing family, or going as a woman

  • Cafés and dessert rooms are the easy choice: Purey (Yinhai) has two big rooms and parking, Shumile has sofa corners, MADO and Sweet Life are family dessert stops next to the Turkish restaurants.
  • Shisha lounges: one visitor describes family groups at IMAX Homie; the rest are mixed adult crowds late at night — go early evening if you bring children.
  • Barbers listed are men’s shops. We have not verified a Muslim-run women’s salon.
  • Restaurants with private rooms for a family dinner: Kelaida, Tajimeilan, Xingyue — see the halal hub.
  • Every card carries the family / women note only when a visitor post says something; where nothing is shown, nobody has told us yet.
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Eat first, then hang out

Dinner on Exotic Street, the night market for dessert, then a café that stays open.

Exotic Street restaurantsYiwu Mosque & prayer timesThings to do in Yiwu
FAQ

Questions visitors ask

Are shisha lounges in Yiwu halal-friendly?

The café-type lounges around Chouzhou North Road and the Binwang creative park serve coffee, tea and shisha to a mostly Middle Eastern and African crowd; visitors report ¥60–100 a pot. Whether a given room serves alcohol is not stated on Amap or in the posts we found, so each card says ‘not checked — ask’. The cocktail-bar shisha places opened since 2025 are listed above only so you can avoid them.

Where do foreigners play football in Yiwu?

Visitors in summer 2026 describe games with Azerbaijani, Colombian and Algerian players, and ‘lots of African guys’ at the Botanical Garden football park in Futian, which Amap lists as free and open 24 hours. Yiwu Football Park (Xicheng North Road, ~¥40), Kaka pitch and the Jiangbin riverside pitch are the other Amap-listed grounds; we have not confirmed who plays there.

Is there a Turkish barber in Yiwu?

Yes: Tanko’s Turkish Barber has a shop in Binwang Market block C (open until 02:00, about ¥100 on Amap) and a second at Chouzhou North Road × Gongren North Road; Arab’s Barber, Mustafa and Arafat are the other Muslim-named barbers in the same blocks. All are Amap-listed only — no visitor post yet.

What is open late near Exotic Street?

Three 24-hour Arab cafés at the International Building corner (M Cafe, 7%, Shumile), Purey Coffee (24 h, Chouzhou North Road 171), Leifeng juice until 01:30–03:00, IMAX Homie shisha until 04:30, A Hot Chilli (Indian) until about 03:00 and Senator (Arabic) until 02:00 — closing times from Amap listings and visitor posts.

Where do people go after Jummah on Friday?

The stalls opposite the mosque gate, then lunch on Chouzhou North Road (Yemeni rooms fill first), then a café. The three-step route above links each stop to its own listing with directions.

Spotted a change (price, closure, halal status)? Report it — a local goes to check.