Ladies Market, Kowloon

The "Ladies Market" can be found on Tung Choy Street in Mongkok and is where you can find many bootleg and counterfeit items of clothing from bags to jeans and from watches to shirts. Some of the items are fairly basic looking and not branded and so are cheap to buy. Even if you're not intending on buying anything, it's a good place to come in the evening and take a walk around, despite it being murderously busy. Oh, and haggle the prices down. The northern section of this street is home to a fish market - pets not food.

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The Tung Choi Street market mainly sells cheap clothings. It is sometimes called the Ladies' Market to distinguish it from the Men's Street (the Temple Street night market) because the stalls in the latter once sold only menswear. Though there are still a lot of items on sale for women on Tung Choi Street, vendors do not discriminate and anyone's money will do nowadays. Vendors start setting up their stalls as early as noon but it's best to get here between 1pm and 6pm when there is much more on offer.

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Also known as "Women's Street" because it used to sell goods only for women, Tung Choi Street is similar to Temple Street Night Market, except that it starts its trading day at noon. In addition to the street stalls, which sell anything from furiously beeping alarm clocks and glittering copy-watches to unisex clothes and CDs, there are also lots of small shops that sell all sorts of other stuff. The market is generally quite crowded, and a bit of pushing is just as expected as haggling over prices.Ladies Market is THE most well-known street market in Hong Kong selling items of various kinds and is known as Ladies' Market or Ladies' Street. Ladies Market has many products for sale and you can haggle with the shop keeper. The products are not only for women. Many men's and children's products are for sale as well. Soft toys, clothes, bags, jeans, watches,... just to name a few. Its northern section features a market selling goldfish and is called Goldfish Street or Goldfish Market.

After each section of Ladies Market there is a small width of road that must be crossed in order to reach the next section and luckily refreshments are available near those intersections. One very popular dessert shop located close to Ladies Market is Hui Lau San. They sell beverages like pearl tea, iced chocolate and lemon tea.

Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon
Open from: 12:30pm - 10:30pm everyday

What to buy: clothing for men and women of all ages, watches, accessories, bags, cosmetics, small household items and toys, leather jackets, reproduction sunglasses, furiously beeping alarm clocks and glittering copy-watches to unisex clothes and CDs, of which around 98% are counterfeit, if you want the real stuff, READ my MACAU tips here in VT! there are also lots of small shops that sell all sorts of other stuff. My favorite thing to do here is EAT STREETFOOD! since these are cheap and are clean, where can you find barbecued octopus legs, Pork Intestines, Cuttlefish, Pork Lungs, assorted dimsums and dumplings and lots of Fruit and Flavored Juices! Cost between 4 to 10 hkd for the streetfoods and drinks! The market gets its name because it is particularly well known for fashionable ladies’ clothing and is renowned for good bargains. It makes a popular shopping place for both locals and tourists.

What to pay: counterfeit ralph lauren polo shirts at 25 hkd, socks at 20 hkd, ladies leather bags at 70 hkd, Counterfeit Police Sunglasses at 15 HKD, Pirated DVD's at 20 HKD, etc Beware as some unscrupulous stall owners give you old chinese renminbi as change! (old Renminbi are NOT Legal Tender Here!)