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Favorite thing: Everything everyone is on the go all the time in HK , the eternal rush.
TAKE YOUR TIME when you are paying cash ( large bills ). The closeness of the 100HKD and 1000HKD colour scheme makes it difficult to distinguish when in a low lighting area, or when you're rushed. Count your bills twice, it's ok.
Make sure you are parting with the right bills. $100HKD is red, $1000HKD is on the golden or light orange side.
It happened to me just a couple months ago. And it's not just a tourists thing, local mixed up their bills at times as well.
Written Sep 19, 2011
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Favorite thing: We don't have any VAT/GST in Hong Kong so it should be at least that much cheaper so long as avoid the expesive outlets in the big shopping malls.
Aplui Street in Sham Shu Po is a well known area for mobile phones shops.
Enjoy your stay.
Written Apr 13, 2008
Favorite thing: This is a fantastic annual competition, where teams from all over the world compete to become the worlds best shopper - It's fantastic to watch the teams hurrying all over Hong Kong. Paste this URL into your browser to see the video: rtsp://q229.tvlynx.co.uk/HongKongShopper_v2.mov
Updated Feb 20, 2007
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Favorite thing: Hong Kong is as fashionable as Paris, London, New York. In mind the sign of dollars you can do world-class, exclusive shopping here like in paradise. Hong Kong is united with business, office-expand, much money swallowing up investments ... so the expressions "money is round" and "money makes the world go round" are not that inconceivable then sooner its characteristic feature.
Fondest memory: Fortunately the city is taking great pride, too, in its fashion. Doing "hair & make-up" it is great to see how the Western publicity beauty billboards welcome you in a surprising way in Hongkong. Fashion- as well make-up shops are not just shopping area's in an ordinary mall. The fashionable shops are truely stylished, luxurious and very trendy decorated, great done Hong Kong!
Written Jan 7, 2007
Favorite thing: Hong Kong is a great place for shopping if your careful, but beware....the biggest ripp offs for electrical goods in the world happen in Hong Kong. Many people get ripped off every day, especially on Nathan road. You can get real bargains in Hong Kong, but as they say in the lonely planet...dont buy it unless it has a price ticket. Beware in particular of the Grand richly shop and the av city shop on Nathan road. If you stay clear of these kind of places ...you will have a great shopping trip in Hong Kong.
Fondest memory: The harbour views...awsome...some of the best views of skyscrapers in the world.
Written Aug 13, 2005
Favorite thing: Like many cities, Hong Kong has many shops that sell postcards. Usually the postcards are so beautiful that we ourselves could never capture it that way. Many shops sell postcards around 10-50 cents USD for one, with the high quality postcards selling below 1 USD.
Written Jan 23, 2004
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Favorite thing: The prices and choices of electronic goods were very good compared to anywhere else that I had been. It was my last chance to pick up a few things for my wife and daughters waiting back in Papua New Guinea so I made a stab at it (not being a great shopper)! A Seiko watch for my wife, two Nintendo hand-held games for my daughters (which were quite the rage with their friends when we eventually got back to Canada), a 35-mm movie camera to finally get some live images of New Guinea and a "Jaffle Maker" - it still makes great sandwiches to this day!
Written Feb 25, 2003
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Favorite thing: Most people I know come to Hong Kong to shop. Yet, I find some of the products are not at their best quality. Nevertheless, they are bargain. And make sure you save extra money for dimsum, afterwards. Sampling dimsum is a must in Hong Kong.
Fondest memory: My fondest memory of Hong Kong was to be re-acquainted with my friend Antonio after so many years.
Written Feb 25, 2003
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Favorite thing: Shop till u drop!! There was endless shopping to be done in HK! It was mid-morning n I was standing in middle of the soon-to-be-busy streets of Tsim Sha Tsui. Notice the colourful street advertisement behind me? :)
Written Sep 7, 2002
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Fondest memory: Oh man, one night, the teacher who took us to China and part of the group were walking on Nathan Road. At one point he and I were looking at lenses for his camera. He wanted a Tamaron lens, or a new camera with lens if he could get it cheap enough. I knew that much of the stuff sold was fake, and wanted to make sure that the lens was real. The F-stop numbers on the lens were reversed from the way I knew (they counted down instead of up (or something). I wanted to make sure that it wasn't screwed up, and would actually work when we got it home, so I asked the salesman about it. He didn't speak much English, I certainly didn't speak much Cantonese, so I guess there was some misunderstanding. And, instead of him telling me about it, he just said that it was good (that I should buy it). I asked again, and again misunderstanding or something. He got mad at me and yelled at me, telling me to, quote, 'Go back to your own country.' Now this was funny, but I couldn't laugh there. It was an unfortunate misunderstanding. Or maybe he figured I didn't trust the merchandise, which I didn't. But, I said nothing as I meant no harm in the first place, and wasn't even asking if the camera lens was any good. My question to him was, 'Why are these markings backwards on this lens?' Unfortunate misunderstandings. Oh well, it was a great night of shopping, and I love Kowloon!
Written Sep 7, 2002
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