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.

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.

Star Ferry & Victoria Peak

Kowloon - I decided to go up Victoria Peak as I have not been up there for many years.  I took the MTR to Tsim Sha Tsui station and walk to the Star Ferry terminal.  Hong Kong's famous Star Ferry, with roots dating back to 1880. Victoria Harbour is a hive of activity, and ships of all shapes and sizes sail past as the Star Ferries somehow avoid collisions.

Hong Kong island across the harbour

Star Ferries

Clock Tower

This old Clock Tower was erected in 1915 as part of the Kowloon–Canton Railway terminus. The once-bustling station is long gone, but this red brick and granite tower, now preserved as a Declared Monument, survives as an elegant reminder of the Age of Steam. It has also been a memorable landmark for the millions of Chinese immigrants who passed through the terminus to begin new lives not just in Hong Kong, but in other parts of the world via the city’s harbour.

Star Ferry

I used my Octopus card to tapped through the gantry - this card is useful for tram, bus, MTR and the ferry too.  

Gangway for the 2 story ferry

1964 was the year this ship was constructed

Monster University

Hong Kong island  - Resting after our meeting, we walked around Times Square which was running a promotion on the movie 'Monster University'.  Large queues gather to take phots with the monsters...

Monster University garden

Huge Apple Store @ Causeway Bay

We popped into a Desert shop a short walking distance from our hotel and had a Durian cake dessert.

Durian cake dessert

The Durian cake is bland, no taste and no smell.   Surprise, HK people like Durians.

Seasame seed and bean curd

This is a mixture dessert of seasame seed and bean curd dish with yellow sugar.  The seasame seed is very fine and smooth..

Tang Yuen

Hot desert with glutinous ball in ginger soup