I’ve been to Hong Kong half a dozen times, always with work, and I really have not had much time to look around - so although still not close to enough time I made sure I had a late flight out and had a day to explore this time around.
The MS office is a bit out of the way in Cyberport on HK Island so I jumped the Le Meridien shuttle to Central, walked to the Star Ferry terminal and caught the ferry over to Tsim Sha Tsui.Walked up to Mong Kok mostly along Nathan Rd, I wasn’t in the market for a new fake watch or handbag or a new suit made in 24 hours and got sick of the Indian guys asking me so I took a detour through some of the back roads which was a great move – I had some awesome BBQ baby octopus skewers from a street vendor and got to check out some of the food markets the locals use.
Mong Kok was cool, of special interest was a street that had about fifty stores selling Adidas trainers, some models that I had never laid eyes on before – unfortunately they were not good value at all so I’ll save myself for the next trip to the US (I didn’t realize comparatively how great value trainers are there!). It was a day of much walking, good food, great people watching and I enjoyed being somewhere very different to Australia. By the time I got back to ferry I was beat, I rode the shuttle to the airport and enjoyed my last meal on Bill – Popeyes fried chicken.
Cheers - Mark
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