Hong Kong, China Travel Guide
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Shopping in Hong Kong
Chinese Arts and Crafts, Hong Kong
Overview: If Shanghai has more shopping than it does water, than Hong Kong is drowning in its retail pool. A shopper’s paradise, Hong Kong delivers anything from markets that sell traditional Chinese items to fake suitcases to big western retail stores.
TSIM SHA TSUI
Tsim Sha Tsui area at the tip of Kowloon covers the gamut from high end to $0.05 knickknacks on retail experience. In the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui’s shopping, eating and drinking is Nathan Road and on Nathan Road, parallel streets and side streets (Lock Road to the west and Bristol Road to the east), you can find major retail stores such as Giordano (my favorite), the New World Centre on Salisbury Road (Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon) and arts and crafts vendors. Must warn you that Nathan Road IS crowded, especially around the Chungking Mansion building which houses an enormous ground floor of vendor stalls (and CKE Shopping center) selling everything from chopsticks and luggage (knock-offs).
Mongkok in Kowloon also boasts a slew of department stores, malls and local vendors.
CENTRAL DISTRICT
Central in Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s commercial district on Hong Kong Island. Just south of the Star Ferry Pier to Tsim Sha Tsui, you’ll find streets with high end stores mixed with local arts and crafts stores and guarded by some of Hong Kong’s famous highrises.
CHINESE ARTS & CRAFTS CENTER
Located on Hong Kong off Queensway, the Chinese Arts and Crafts Center is an awesome and huge complex with boutique stores selling authentic Chinese arts and crafts.
Location: Shop 220, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty
Ph: 852 2523 3933
Accessibility: The complex is wheelchair accessible.
Ladies Market Hong Kong
LADIES MARKET
The Ladies Market in Mongkok (Kowloon) is an outdoor marketplace comprised of stalls upon stalls of goodies, wares and trinkets. The vendors at the Ladies Market expect you to negotiate so start with about 30 to 40% of their asking price items until you are comfortable or happy with the purchase price.
Location: It’s located on Tung Choi Street in Kowloon in the Mongkok area near the Standford Hotel.
Accessibility: Easy to maneuver around but the walkways between stalls can get a bit crowded.