Date: 22 Dec 2008 Monday (Day 02)
10:00AM Awake!
View from our hotel room.
Our aim that day was to visit the places that we missed our in our previous trips.
10:24AM Breakfast
We stopped by one of the restaurants on the way along 弼街 Bute Street.
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What should we eat?
The restaurant was empty at that time.
JR’s ice milk tea.
My hot milk tea – nice cup.
My fishball noodles.
JR and his bowl of beef ball noodles.
The beef balls were very nice! I regretted ordering my fish balls…
10:46AM 通èœè¡— Tung Choi Street
金鱼市场 Goldfish Market
This place sells many types of fish and all manner of fish-related products.
Fish ready-packed in plastic bags hanging outside shops.
We read that there are many pet stops in Goldfish Market but most of them were not open then. We will be back later.
We walked pass 花å›è¡— Fa Yuen Street on our way to the next destination.
11：02AM èŠ±å¢Ÿé“ Flower Market Road
花墟 Flower Market
The flowers there are much cheaper than those selling in Singapore.
Christmas trees.
Orchids – 1 for 50 HKD, 2 for 90 HKD, 3 for 120 HKD.
11:12AM å›åœƒè¡— Yuen Po Street
å›åœƒè¡—é›€é¸Ÿå› Bird Garden
Owners with their birds gather in this garden. Different types of beautiful birds can be seen.
11:25AM Back to Flower Market
We walked back to Flower Market and then 太åé“西 Prince Edward Road West.
11：35AM 洗衣街 Sai Yee Street
We turned into 洗衣街 Sai Yee Street, then 弼街 Bute Street again.
There were street hawkers selling all sort of items at 洗衣街 Sai Yee Street.
The street was full of people.
Fake Lego.
CNY stuff already out for sale!
Bright red underwear! For extreme good luck at Mahjong? Anyone wants this?
Fresh big strawberries.
We turned into 通èœè¡— Tung Choi Street and then to 亞皆è€è¡— Argyle Street.
We bought some sour plums from 梅屋.
Beautiful golden retriever following its owner unleashed.
We came to the junction between 洗衣街 Sai Yee Street and 亞皆è€è¡— Argyle Street. Located at this junction is the Richmond Shopping Centre. It is difficult to miss it being the last building before Sai Yee Street.
12:05PM Continue walking…
I wanted to go to èƒœåˆ©é“ Victory Avenue aka Kowloon Pet Street.
We crossed the road via the overhead bridge from 亞皆è€è¡— Argyle Street to å¤ªå¹³é“ Peace Avenue.
Train passing by.
More walking until we arrived at èƒœåˆ©é“ Victory Avenue.
So many pet stores along the street.
This is actually a big golden retriever but it looks small in this photo.
Little poodle looking at its owner.
Some photos taken during our “walk”.
Passed by Ladies’ Market on the way back.
Signboards hanging out of buildings.
Old lady with her sack of cardboard.
We went back to CAM² ç›¸æœºä¼ å®¶ at 西洋èœè¡— Sai Yeung Choi Street. JR didn’t like the Vivitar flash that we bought the day before! We managed to get it changed to Canon 580EXII. Since we were there, we helped Jia Hui got a remote control.
So tired after all the walking…Â we walked a total of 3.61 KM the whole morning!
13:36PM To æ±æ¶Œ Tung Chung
Took the MTR from 旺角 Mong Kok station.
JR is so happy with his new flash.
14:09PM Citygate Outlets
Tung Chung Citygate Outlets
Brands like Armani Exchange, Calvin Klein Jeans, Nautica, Esprit, polo Ralph Lauren, Burberry and many more design fashion brands can be found there. Discount rates can be up to 90%!
15:34PM Lunch
Our lunch at McDonald ‘s!
Big N’ Tasty
Delicious!
Finished our lunch and shopping at Citygate outlets.
16:20PM To 深水埗 Sham Shui Po
Transfer at è”景 Lai King to the èƒæ¹¾ Tsuen Wan line.
鴨寮街 Apliu Street.
Butcher selling pork.
Walked to æ¡‚æž—è¡— Kweilin Street.
We returned to our hotel to take a rest.
18:03PM Out again!
The sky was already dark.
Look at the crowd outside one of the buildings opposite our hotel. Wonder what they were they there for.
We were back at 金鱼市场 Goldfish Market.
Walked all the way to Langham Place.
19:10PM æœ—è±ªåŠ Langham Place
奇幻王国 The Christmas Gold Palace
The floor of the palace has been designed as a chessboard and has large chess pieces. There is a full set of 13 pieces that include the king, the prince, and the princess.
JR & Capricon
Me with Virgo
We did some window shopping there then walked the way back to 西洋èœè¡— Sai Yeung Choi Street.
20:15PM 西洋èœè¡— Sai Yeung Choi Street
We went to JR’s favourite toy mart – CTMA Centre again. It is located near the junction where 西洋èœè¡— Sai Yeung Choi Street South meets 登打士街 Dundas Streets. More shops were opened then.
20:46PM Dinner
Dinner at 大家樂 Cafe de Coral
大家樂 is a fast food restaurant that serves both Chinese and Western food at a budget price. We had our meals at 大家樂 almost everyday during our last trip to Hong Kong.
Mine
It might not look appealing but its very good.
JR’s
21:40PM Mongkok Computer Centre
We did some window shopping at Mongkok Computer Centre.
Wah! We spotted the Christmas carol singing all around bus!
This was Hong Kong’s special carol performance during the 2008 Hong Kong WinterFest. The open-top bus was one of the carollers from kowloon’s Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok areas.
We took the MTR back from Mongkok to Price Edward. Too tired for more walking.
22:22PM Back to Hotel
The bones we bought for our precious dogs.
Total expenses for Day 02:
| Item | Cost (HKD) | Cost (SGD) | Exchange Rate |
| Breakfast at ä¹å›ç‰›ä¸¸å¤§çŽ‹ | 58.00 | 10.98 | 5.26 |
| Sour Plums from 梅屋 | 24.00 | 4.56 | 5.26 |
| Canon 580EXII Flash (top-up) | 1580.00 | 303.85 | 5.20 |
| Jianisi Remote Control | 30.00 | 5.77 | 5.20 |
| Lunch – McDonald’s | 55.10 | 10.48 | 5.26 |
| Dinner at 大家樂 | 62.10 | 11.81 | 5.26 |
| Bones for dogs | 258.00 | 49.05 | 5.26 |
| TOTAL | 2067.20 |
396.50 | |
| * 5.26 Exchange rate from Change Alley and 5.2 Exchange rate from DBS Credit Card | |||