5 April 2025
Is everywhere a street market?
Mong Kok to Sham Shui Po
Tonight I walked back to Mong Kok and continued beyond back to Sham Shui Po. I was in that area the other night when I went to Dragon Centre, but this time I was on the other side of the road, looking for the toy street.
I think I found the toy street, but also the toy gun street and also the flower market. What was more interesting is that everywhere is now a street market. I think there used to be 2 street markets, now it seems there are 22. Is this every suburb trying to cash in or was it always like this and I just did not notice?
Tomorrow will be the last hike in Hong Kong of this trip, I am going to do a repeat of one I have done before which people say has the best views of any hike, to see how it compares to the lesser known hike that I did yesterday.
I caught a subway back to my hotel, all of 3 stops. I always make sure I mask up everywhere, especially on the subway, and try not to touch anything, and I move away from anyone that seems to be even slightly sick... compare that to a seemingly wealthy Russian family who got on, eating Mcdonalds hamburgers (it is illegal to eat on the subway), and then the gold chained head to toe Adidas wearing father dropped his big mac on the damp floor of the subway, it separated into its components, which he then re-assembled and continued to eat. I nearly vomited into my mask.
There is an entire street full of toy gun shops. They possibly shoot plastic pellets or foam darts or something, so that nerdy guys with glasses can pretend they are rambo into their retirement age.
Here is one of the possibly thousands of markets, this one is mainly fruit and vegetables and bras.
This is right near the flower market, this multi level store is a flower shop selling flowers and flower related accessories (ribbons, pieces of shiny paper, twigs).
You can buy a bonsai tree off the back of a truck, possibly stolen and re-potted earlier that day.
For my dinner, excellent Taiwan style beef noodle soup, with extra spicy option. It was fantastic. I am very full of noodles now after 2 x noodle meals today.
Not all markets are night markets, but this already closed market makes for photo of the night.
And here is a busy street corner, with multiple hole in the wall places having lines of people.
Tomorrow is a shorter hike, with probable sunshine, I will believe it when I see it.