Hong Kong Street Markets

Hong Kong Street Markets range from those selling souvenirs and trinkets that cater for tourists, to traditional wet markets selling live seafood to poultry vegetables and meats.

The biggest street markets such as Ladies' Market in Mong Kok or Stanley Market sell anything from table napkins to clothing handbags to small electronic gadgets.

One of the most delightful is the Yuen Po Bird Street, on Prince Edward Road West, in Kowloon. Open daily 0700-2000, this market is primarily concerned with the sale of song birds. Nearby, on Tung Choi Street, is a flower market and a goldfish market.

Street Markets are generally the cheapest places to shop in Hong Kong but this reflects the quality of the goods on sale. You can bargain in most markets but the price shouldn't drop too much unless the stallholder was charging you a real antique when it is actually fake or for high quality jade when it is garden variety.

Yuen Po Bird Street

At the end of the Flower market Street where it turns right to become Po Yuen Street you'll see a sign for the Bird Market. You can buy birds prized for their plumage singing and or fighting skills from all over the world. You can also pick up ornately carved birdcages and bird food like live grasshoppers.

Cat Street Bazaar

This bazaar is located on Upper Lascar Row and known by locals as Cat Street.

The affectionate nickname came from the stories of old days that if something was stolen it would turn up on Cat Street where thieves were no better than rats and the dealers that bought the stolen wares were the cats that fed off them.

Nowadays the market has shops selling high quality antiques and others offering by their own admission reproduction also it is jam packed full of stalls fun Mao watches and memorabilia.

Flower Market

This is real street lined with flower shops that have their blooms in buckets neatly arranged to cover half the pavement. There is fantastic range of flowers and plants from the ordinary to the exotic ones. There are also shops selling usual flower arranging equipment and a variety of vases.

The Flower market is favoured by the catering and hotel industries because of the range, and also probably the cheapest place to buy flowers in the territory. Most of the flowers were brought in from Mainland China Kunming and thus are much cheaper compared to their European counterparts.

Gage Street Wet Market

Take a walk down Gage Street and one of the central axes of this maze of market stalls to see local shoppers buying live meat, live fish and and fresh vegetables. Gage Street is typical of many such fresh markets located in residential areas around the city.

Goldfish Market

This place is like a huge aquarium where tanks of every size pumps filters fish food as well as aquatic plants. Pick and choose among bright fish of all kinds swimming in oxygen-inflated bags on stands that jut out onto the pavement.

Non fishy items include terrapins snails and frogs. True to its name there is a great variety of goldfish breeds as well as other freshwater and saltwater species,

Incidentally, some shops also sell puppies, kittens, rabbits and other fluffy creatures.

Jardine's Cresent and Bazaar

Jardine's Cresent is frequented mainly a by locals looking for a wide range of women's apparel from evening gowns and sweaters to stockings and accessories.

Behind the stalls are other shops selling discounted clothing for the young and hip and conservative and stylish. There is one shopping street parallel to the Cresent which is usually lined with waiting minibuses but the shops are worth a look if you're after designer outlet shops.

Around Jardine's Cresent are small shops that sell cheap DVD, VCD and CD movies and music.

Ladies Market

Despite the name it also sells goods for both sexes this large and busy market you find designer fake bags watches sunglasses boxers and cigarette fresh fruit and vegetables. Nothing is top of quality but it's decent enough.

This market is exclusively a street stall market permanently set up and running between Dundas and Argyle Street. It's a busy market indeed, but the best deals are in the shops behind the market stalls which are clothing discount shops are many.

Lanes of Central

Narrow parallel lanes running between Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road Central are crammed with stalls that appeal to tourists but are also popular with locals. You can pick up a gift a cheap handbag and shoe shops and a quite few stalls sells thin pashminas for about $40. You can find cute children's outfit in Chinese Silk, fake watches, low grade jade jewelry and underwear.

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