3 April 2025
Slightly further north
Sham Shui Po and Dragon Centre
This evening I built upon my 30,000 steps earned wandering around the mainland earlier on today and bagged another 10,000 by heading further north up Nathan road to the area named Sham Shui Po. Apparently there is a toy street and a computer street there, I never saw them, but I did find the hardware street and market. I think I have seen that before but it is very interesting.
The area is less touristy, but still very near the main tourist area, I enjoyed looking at the older apartment buildings, lighting shops, and an entire street full of nothing but toilet seats. And then I found Dragon Centre.
Dragon centre is of course, yet another mall, an older cheaper sort of a mall. Despite being considerably low rent than those I walked through in Shenzhen, it did have an ice skating rink (not pictured) and a broken down roller coaster (pictured). Also lots of broccoli.
Here is a random street scene on my journey north along Nathan rd.
I love overpasses.
This is what basically all the apartments in Sham Shui Po look like. Inspiration for many computer games.
I like how Hong Kong has these 'parks' everywhere, open to all, with lighting.
Time to explore the hardware store area and associated market.
It was generally busy, this is the end of the street market area where the crowd thins out a bit.
Wanna buy a stolen power tool? It is a fascinating concept that you can wander down from your apartment at 10pm every night to buy a drill off a rug in the street.
Behold, Dragon Centre, in all its glory.
I believe that blue sign at the top says food court, lets go and investigate.
Thankfully the roller coaster is not running. I would fear for my personal safety if it was. I presume something bad happened to cause it to no longer operate.
The food court was legit, with a lot of great looking food, but it was a bit too squeezy and therefore a bit too sneeze and cough infested for me.
Instead I had pasta, again. But I decided to add a huge bowl of broccoli and mushrooms with enough garlic to kill the entire cast of twilight.
Tomorrow is a hiking day, I believe it is also a national holiday for tomb sweeping day, something I run into when I go to Korea too. Hopefully my hike is not too popular and or, I will be there before most Hong Kongers awaken.