Next door to Mr Zhong, and opposite Cavern Records is one of the more amazing shops in the High Street. As well as the useful items, like curtain rods, cushions and cushion covers, (where it is simply a matter of taste), and blankets, which will probably never be seen anyway because you would put a throw over them, 7 Star has some truly ugly items. Many is the time I have stood metaphorically shaking my head in wonderment at what must have been going through the mind of the people who made these things.

Little vignettes assail my imagination, of checked crimpline trousers, bad sound effects and jazz with wah wah pedals as the bad guy overturns the overdecorated glass-topped table and chair set during his failed attempt at a get-away. These tables are made to be flipped, in the manner that only occurs in the worst kind of Californian, 1970s made-for-TV detective shows.

7 Stars is a Cornucopia of Kitsch. Not some camp kind of a tad late to be fashionable but nevertheless intended to be post-ironic put-it-in-your-bathroom-to-amuse-your-friends-in-Hoxton kind of kitsch, I mean the real thing. The shop is a wonder to behold - how could so many plug ugly useless objects come to be gathered together in one place? Looking for a tacky rug? - come to 7 Stars. Got a strange religious mania - 7 Stars will oblige. Want a see-through plastic toilet brush set with marine motifs suspended in the plastic? Need a few dolphins or tasteful statuettes from the 'Tong Yu Yi Pin' range of collectibles to go with them? Worried you haven't got the full range of bleeding hearts of Jesus or Laughing Buddhas to go with your ceramic elephant pedestal? Ever want to see a customer haggling for this kind of stuff? This is the place to be.

And if you ever come to wonder why you don't see these items in people's houses, but the shop has been going for years, I know the answer to that one- they also sell net curtains.

(Tel 0208 503 6164 for wholesale inquiries).