While the Lies spent some family time together, I met up with Brian to explore Hong Kong one afternoon. I was raving about the amazing beef noodles in Mong Kok the night before, so we decided to hit it up one more time. It’s funny how in such a short period of time, I’ve become the tour guide as opposed to the tourist.

I read up about the different themed streets in Mong Kok: Ladies street, Goldfish Street, Bird Street, Flower Market Road, Tile Street and Photocopy Street. And since the first few listed were all relatively close to one another, we thought it would be a good idea to have a walk about.

Let’s talk about the Goldfish or Fish Street first. I’m not too sure what the official name is, but there are a few floating around the internet: The Goldfish Market, Goldfish Street and Fish Street. I’ll just call it Goldfish Street because that’s what I found on wikipedia.

Goldfish Street is on Tung Choi Street, South of Prince Edward Road West. It’s the place to go for anything aquarium related. There are dozens and dozens of shops selling fishes in all shapes and hues and everything else to give them a pretty home. From tanks, corals, rocks, plants and food. You can also find them tortoise and sea horse friends. A couple of shops had more critters like Guinea pigs on sale as well.

We walked past a store with plastic tubs of tortoises in direct sunlight! Brian was not pleased by that at all, being the terrapin lover that he is. On closer inspection, there were a few little guys who have already keeled over. Poor lil fellas

The wall of fish in plastic bags makes good pictures, but it must be awful living in a plastic bag of water the whole day. Then again I’m sure most of these goldfish won’t even remember.

GoldFish Market
Address: Tung Choi Street, Mong Kok
Opening hours: 10:30am – 10pm
Directions:
- MTR Prince Edward Station Exit B2 and walk east along Prince Edward Road West.
- MTR Mong Kok East Station Exit C. Walk to Sai Yee Street via footbridge and follow the sign

Finally the day had come. Had booked the two-to-go ticket with Danli months ago on Singapore Airlines, and Evan joined us on her krisflyer miles. Was so excited the night before, I only slept for 3 hours.

We reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon, so we decided to get ourselves settled into our accommodation before heading out.

Our first stop for the day was Mong Kok.

Mongkok is on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong, and just a few MTR stop away from Central. The girls were adamant on hitting H&M first before dinner, and within 2 hours, the damage ticker had begun ticking. I wasn’t feeling the shopping vibe and just ended up buying myself a black hair band.

*updated
I’ve decided to post blog entries by restaurants or events.