Temple Street Night Market

Kowloon - This flea market is full of quirky, Hong Kong souvenirs and t-shirts to take home. The actual market on Temple Street is in the Yau Ma Tei and Jordan sections of Temple Street. The flea market starts in the late afternoon every day and continues throughout the evening.

You can find fake’designer' handbags, sunglasses, clothes, and electronic gadgets.  The atmosphere was filled with many tourist of different nationalities.  Along the sides were many seafood restaurants, mostly crowded.    You will also find fortuner teller stalls plying their trade.

Hui Lau Shan's Desserts

Kowloon - Hui Lau Shan has served local deserts soup (tong sui) since the 1960s.  This famous desert chain store has spread regionally and is well known for its fresh mango desserts.

Famous mango desert

The mango is so fresh and it was a refreshing desert in the humid HK weather.   This mango desert set also comes with mochi.

Mango mochi

The Mango Mochi is a dessert that is so delicious, added with the coconut shavings on top. 

Yau Ma Tei Theatre

Hong Kong -  A short walk from the Fruit market is the Yau Ma Tei Theatre was once the largest theater in Kowloon and the only remaining pre-World War II theater in the Kowloon Peninsula. It opened in 1930 and is now a Grade II historic building.

old projector used in this theatre

It is currently a venue for Cantonese Opera, and provides a 300-seating auditorium.  

Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

The biggest difference between

MONEY & TIME

You Always know much much MONEY you have

But You Never know how much TIME you have

Kowloon - This trip I stayed around Yau Ma Tei MTR station, one station from my last trip @ Mongkok station.  Yau Ma Tei is one of Hong Kong's oldest and most diverse neighbourhoods, streets and buildings brings you back to Hong Kong of old times.   Yau Ma Tei, formerly known as Waterloo (named after Waterloo Road).

It was a fasinating place, old man singing along street corners, street walkers everywhere and the famous Fruit market.  The nickname Gwo Laan came later; gwo means fruit and laan refers to a wholesale market

Yau Ma Tei Fruit warehouse at night

Fruit market in the afternoon

The wholesale fruit market that has operated at the corner of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street since 1913.  Every night, workers get to work pushing and pulling boxes of pineapples, durians and all kind of fruts from around the world between warehouses and trucks.   Stacks and stacks of fruit boxes piled high ready for the next morning.