There are a couple of things that everyone says you must do in Hong Kong: have some clothes made and visit the street markets. We did find a place to make us clothes and it is just as fast as they say it will be. We went to the tailor in the morning to pick fabric and get measured, then returned late in the afternoon for the first fitting. We went back 24 hours later to pick up our perfectly tailored clothing. It was that easy! We got our tailoring done on the Hong Kong side which is a bit tamer. Whenever we walked anywhere in Kowloon we would get hassled to get some tailoring done. Mostly they target men and we literally would hear "Tailoring, sir?" five or six times per city block. Oddly, they don't really cater to women for this service. Maybe there are too many variables in fitting women or maybe women would rather try on the clothes before they buy. Regardless, JT got chased and hassled all over the streets of Kowloon.
Ladies' Market, Kowloon
Flower Market, Kowloon
Rock 'em, Sock 'em...no idea what this was about
Street in Kowloon
The open-air markets are interesting to see and they can get incredibly crowded. There is a ladies' market, a flower market, an electronics market and a market with everything that is busiest at night, called the Night Market. The markets are okay but the really fun part is just looking at all the little things, making small purchases and haggling. It is very un Australian (and un North American) to haggle on prices, but we had to try. We managed to get the prices down by about 15%, which still means that we paid about 35% more than we should have, so good thing we weren't spending a lot of money!
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