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Markets: Flower Market
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  • mim95
  • Updated By mim95 on September 17, 2005
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  • Flower Market, Hong Kong - Hong Kong
    Flower Market, Hong Kong
    by mim95
    The flower market is a street full of florists, where all the beautiful freshly cut flowers are put in buckets in the front of the store. What a great and colourful display!

    Combine your tour with the Bird Garden as both places should be visited early in the morning.

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  • Directions: Right next to the the Bird Garden in Mong Kok, Kowloon
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    Markets: see hong kongs markets
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  • taurus1973
  • By taurus1973 on April 28, 2004
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  • markets in hong kong come in all shapes and sizes. the wet markets are particulary interesting. see gresson street wanchai for a taste of wet market atmosphere or graham street central. there are some great bizzares in central too near the old man mo temple. the temple strret market in kowllon offers a wide variety of things on offer. if its bargains you are after then try your luck over the border in shen zhen.

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    Markets: Jade Market
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  • clairegeordio
  • By clairegeordio on April 5, 2007
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  • Jade market - Hong Kong
    Jade market
    by clairegeordio, 1 more photos
    In this covered market there are around 450 stalls of jade to choose from! Items mainly include jewellery and animal figures and beads - plenty of cheap items and bargains to be had. I bought a jade cat and a tiny sign of zodiac charm.
    It is best to get there quite early and sellers will start packing up early afternoon.

    Open 10am-5pm

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  • Directions: Yau Ma Tei MTR - exit C, walk along Man Ming Lane, turn left, along Shanghai St, turn right onto Kansu Street, turn right.
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    Markets: Kowloon: Walk Mong Kok
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  • idy
  • By idy on November 21, 2005
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  • Bags and bags of fish - Hong Kong
    Bags and bags of fish
    by idy, 2 more photos
    There are several markets of interest in the Mong Kok area. Starting from Prince Edward MTR station, you can head towards the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden. Bird lovers come to the Chinese courtyard with their birds and meet with other bird lovers. This is also where you go to buy a bird, or bird accessories. It is open from 7am to 8pm daily.

    Proceed through Yuen Po Street and you'll arrive at Flower Market Road. Blooms of all shapes, sizes and colours are for sale here at wholesale prices. Garden accessories are also available. It is open from 7am to 7pm daily.

    Move on to Tung Choi Street, or the Goldfish Market. Again, fishes and aquariums of all shapes, colours and sizes are for sale here. Aquatic plants, fish food and other accessories are also in abundance. Come here in the evening and you'll find the street still bustling. Open from 10.30am to 10pm daily.

    Shopping-mad ladies may want to skip all three markets and proceed to Fa Yuen Street. Clothes, shoes, bags and other accessories await shoppers here, as well as at the adjacent Ladies' Market (on another section of Tung Choi Street). Shops along Fa Yuen Street are open daily from 10.30am to 10.30pm, while the Ladies' Market operates from noon to 11.30pm daily.

    If that isn't enough, proceed further up the Temple Street Night Market in Yau Ma Tei. It essentially sell the same types of goods and is open from 4pm to midnight daily. On the fringes of the markets, there're food stalls selling a variety of food, from noodles to seafood. A noodle stall just at the entrance of the market makes particularly good wontons (a variety of meat dumplings). If it's crowded, you'll have to share tables with other diners (mostly locals).

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  • Directions: Mong Kok is served by Mong Kok and Prince Edward MTR stations, and Mong Kok KCRC station.
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    Markets: Western Market
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  • keeweechic
  • Updated By keeweechic on August 13, 2003
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  • Markets - Hong Kong
    by keeweechic
    Western Market - is right at the end of the tram stop on Hong Kong island and sells silks, dress fabric, arts and crafts.

    You can't miss the building, its a red-brick Edwardian-style historical landmark. It first opened in 1906 and has been operating ever since.

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  • Address: Connaught Rd & Morrison St, Western, HK Island
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    Markets: Wet Markets, Central
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  • Leah1231
  • By Leah1231 on December 20, 2002
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  • There are many "wet markets" in Hong Kong, but perhaps the most popular, and most photogenic of them are the ones located in Central.

    Take the escallator up, and eventually you will see them below you, you can get off the escallator at most streets.

    They have all the live fish, meats, vegetables etc, very local, and interesting. Beware though, hold your noise, it can be a bit smelly. Lots of little streets lined with stalls, in a very Chinese setting. A MUST photoshoot!

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  • Directions: You will see the streets from the escallator which starts at around 90 Queens Road Central
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    Markets: Something's fishy in the Goldfish Market
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  • DesertRat
  • Updated By DesertRat on October 11, 2002
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  • Fish of all types vie for attention here. - Hong Kong
    Fish of all types vie for
    attention here.
    by DesertRat
    The Goldfish Market in Kowloon's Mongkok District must be, so far as I know, almost unique. Dozens of shops, sitting cheek-by-jowl , sell just about every conceivable kind of tropical fish, whether native to freshwater and saltwater. The Chinese, for centuries, have bred and cross-bred goldfish/carp species to produce specimens of both great beauty and great freakishness.

    But dozens of other varieties are found here as well. We saw wonderful angel-fish, some nearly transparent; piranhas were on offer; myriad varieties of Japanese Fighting Fish were available. And just about everything else in between.

    The shops varied in their set-up: some were crowded with sparkling-clean aquaria, well-lit, and perfectly aerated, while others were mere stalls, their wares swimming listlessly inside plastic bags filled with water. Prices, too, ran the gamut from a few cents to several thousands of HK dollars. Depending on your interest in aquatic specimens, this little outing is worth at least an hour or so. Or you could stay for days...

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  • Address: Tung Choi St between Prince Edward & Bute Sts.
  • Directions: Go to the Mongkok MTR stop, walk up Nathan Rd to Bute, and turn right. Tung Choi is the second street after Nathan Road. You can't miss the market.
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    Markets: Tung Choi Ladies Market
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  • K.Knight
  • Updated By K.Knight on September 18, 2008
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  • Anne looking for a bargain! - Hong Kong
    Anne looking for a bargain!
    by K.Knight, 1 more photos
    Located in the heart of Mongkok District, Tung Choi Street was once known for lingerie and other erotic items. Today, Tung Choi Street is known by the locals as "Ladies Market" or "Women's Street" and the tourists know it as the home of everything fake…or good copy as the stallholders say!!!!

    Most of the goods that that Anne and I found here consisted of fairly good quality merchandise that did not fall apart when we got home. From copy watched, handbags, wallets and purses, pens, clothing, shoes, bags, football and basketball shirts, we bagged them all!

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    Markets: Western Market
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  • ZiOOlek
  • Updated By ZiOOlek on February 19, 2007
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  • Western Market - Hong Kong
    Western Market
    by ZiOOlek
    The Western Market, a building originally called the Harbour Office, was built in 1906 and later became a food market before closing in 1988. Two years later, it was declared a historical monument, renovated and then re-opened as the Western Market in 1991. Nice women at the information point will try to encaurage you to visit Western Market as the best place to see in Hong Kong but nothing interesting is there. Just a market!

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    Markets: Central Market has everything,...
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  • AndreasK
  • By AndreasK on September 8, 2002
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  • Markets - Hong Kong
    by AndreasK
    Central Market has everything, from chickens and pigeons to frogs and eels, sold alive or freshly slaughtered. The loud and vigorous haggling over prices, coupled with the variety of fresh produce, makes this an extremely colourful place to visit.

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