Hong Kong 2009 Day 2

Visited Mongkok and its market streets in the morning, but firstly had an exorbitant breakfast of century egg congee and humongous fried dough fritters at a cha can teng.

A breakfast that cost us SGD20+

We spent the next few hours marvelling at the aquarium shops of the Goldfish Market at Tung Choi Street. The lucky locals could keep exotic pets like iguanas, star tortoises, staghorn beetles, alligator turtles and interesting saltwater creatures other than the typical clownfishes.

Packets of goldfishes for sale

Pet and aquarium shops along Tung Choi Street

Slug and I at the Goldfish Market

Crabs that look like pebbles

Bizarre-looking striped crabs

Moved on to Sham Shui Po for Slug's pilgrimage to its second-hand flea market and high-end audio shops.

Sweet-and-sour chicken rice and teriyaki chicken burger from KFC this season

Walked back to Mongkok for some nighttime shopping at the mini shopping centres there.

My favourite shopping centre at Mongkok

Singaporean manicurists pale in comparison to the creative and skilled ones here

Then moved on to 信和中心, an ordinary-looking commercial building which surprisingly houses many shops and units dealing in a diverse range of trades - Rilakkuma novelties, CDs and DVDs, wholesale of facial products, comics and collectibles, porn, manicure services, games, medical services etc. The CD and DVD shops on the 10th, 12th and 13th floor were what attracted Slug to this building - we could buy banned films cheaply as well as old-school Hong Kong classics like 阴阳路.

At the 10th storey - just like those quiet and creepy corridors at Mt Elizabeth Hospital

Ended off with a stroll down the dark Portland Street and Temple Street to buy some knick-knacks, and then back to our apartment.