Markets

Once again a later start this morning following a late night, but this time we started as you always should in Hong Kong, with dim sum! Very nice and also pretty cheap as well so everyone is a winner there. Rebecca ate a decent amount and after just a while we were ready to head of towards the markets, which surprisingly we’ve never been to quite a few of before.

Straight up Nathan Road, which is a long walk to be fair, and after a few stops involving spiced pork, other less exciting ones involving children’s clothes and finally we get to the ladies market, which to be honest is just a load of old rubbish for sale, so Li was in heaven.

I managed to distract everyone long enough to get some pretty amazing food in the form of a Japanese for a late lunch, which ended up the bargain of the century at about £12 for two massive plates of sushi, two bowls of noodles plus drinks and curry & rice!

Moving on and we get to the flower market, which is on a really imaginatively named road called “flower market street”. All very nice, and some great orchids but to be honest it basically consists of a lot of Flower shops and not any bargains either, and suddenly we know why we haven’t bothered doing this before.

We continued our trek onto the bird market, Rebecca met a parrot that said “hello”, amongst other animals, which she didn’t seem to find strange at all, but given children’s tv where all the animals speak then maybe this isn’t so surprising. The rest of the bird market was quite small but in fairness had everything you’d expect, lots of birds and Rebecca got to hold some of them as well which was quite nice.

Finally the goldfish market, which is actually quite a bad representation of what they sell given it actually is a lot of shops selling basically everything you can think of from goldfish to $10,000 aquariums. Amazing selection of fish and related gadgets were for sale and even William was almost taking a interest!

   

 

  

Quick Taxi ride back to the waterfront to make the light display for the evening, which actually was quite disappointing having seen it before and the day is almost done.

 

 Quick time for a few beers in one of the bars overlooking the waterfront, some time to Skype  parents, a few more drinks, and home by a very sensible 11pm!