Jorden market & Mong Kok

Hong Kong is famouse for its various food markets and street shopping during the later afternoon and evening.

Especially Jorden market is a food market during the day and a fashion plus other stuff market during night. Cheap souveniers, Tshirs, phone-cases and so on for a nice shopping experiance.

During the morning it is very busy at Jordan's fish market, where you only find fresh and still living seafood but also turtles and frogs in boxes.

I'm not sure about the hygiene sometimes at these places as they cut and wash everything outside in the streets or in open shops but everything is very messy, blood is everywhere and the meat is hanging up on hucks for showcase purposes. Interesting to watch but nothing like the western food markets.

After browsing through the market I met up again with my chinese-uni friend Lavinia and we went for Lunch with her lovely parents and later on to her flat in Hung Hom.

Her place is absolutely amazing and I got some insights how HK residents are living when it comes to this massive high towers.

I have to say I was mindblown from the few on the 20 floor. I can't imagine how it would be when u live on the 88 floor or something like that.
See the pictures below for yourself!
They even have a spa, a outside pool and view to the sea included!
Wow!

After spending some time at her place we decided to go to Mong Kok for crazy girls shopping.
Mong Kok is very well known for it's fashion and all the other stuff you can get at the market. :))

There is one shopping center which is my favourit and super known for crazy clothes shopping.
It's exactly at exit D2 outside at Mong Kok station and has the cheapest and fun clothes, shoes accessorize,...etc you will ever find in HK!! Love it, but the quality of the fashion isn't the best that's why it's so cheap as it comes from china and you have to deal with small corridors inside, confusing staircases and too many girls on shopping tour. Haha stress for so,e people, fun for me;))) you have to understand the city, go with the flow in order to love Hong Kong :))

Back in Hongkong

After my 10h direct flight with Qantas airlines from Melbourne to Hong Kong I had the change to get another 6nights in this beautiful city like I had in February on the way to Australia.

I decided to stay again in Causeay bay's "Hong Kong Hostel" which offers private or shred rooms for very low prices.

I payed around 1845 HK$ (=184,30€) for 6nights including a private room, with your own shower, toilet, a double bed, TV, Wifi is included so is the cleaner with comes once every day.

On my first day in Hong Kong I decided to wonder around in the area of Causeway, Wan Chai and have dinner with my chinese friend Evie who was my flatmate and uni-mate in London at LCC(London College of Communication).
We had delicious Ramen at the lower ground of the massiv Sasa shopping center.
Cost:68 -88 HK$

In 2011 I got the chance to live and work a couple of months for a HK Design studion in Sheung Wan. From there I perfectly knew Hong Kong's districts, food, restaurants, shopping, places to go,...etc.

I missed loooots of things from this part of the world: for example the double-decker trams, 7/11 supermarket, running sushi HK style, which I decided to have one more time with another chinese friend of mine > Lavinia. I know her from LCC as well.

Later in we went in a shopping center in Wan Chai to fix my cracked iphone screen.
Hong Kong is all about shopping centers and it looks like every shopping center has it's own theme. Such as this one specialized on technology: Phones, laptops and related equipment . That's why I bought a keyborad for my ipad mini, a handband for my ipod for jogging, a mini-loudspeakers and an extra battery for phones to recharge wile you on the go. Very usefull stuff I have to say. (everything together under 100€)

Before dinner me and Evie went to the New Causeway bay Apple store as I decided to buy a new ipod nano, as my old one doesn't work properly any more.

The good news is that nearly every product is sooooo much cheaper than in Europe. I compared the ipods with each other in the online store and it's about 63€ cheaper in HK than in Europe. It's mainly because they don't pay Tax in asia but generally it is way cheaper! Interesting...

At the end of the day me and Evie went to a small outside Cafe which reminded me a bit of Italy with all the tables outside and we had a small Mango-cake which looked like a small Lego piece. Mmmmhhh delicious!

(the furbbie haha*really?)