Scenes from Tung Choi Street

Tung Choi street is not all about fishes sold in small plastic packets lining the sidewalk.

It's also a great bargain hunting ground for cheap,good quality,long lasting boots and shoes , especially in the area where the pedestrian bridges start.

Also, if you love watching Hong Kong tv shows, this is one place, where you'll want to be.

In fact, a few famous gift shop chains in Malaysia get a whole lot of their supplies from the shops around this place. Thus if you come here, you will find most items sold at half the price compared to back home.

Scenes from Sai Yeung Choi Street

Also known as Electronics Street, at night especially towards the weekend, this street comes alive with varied street artists, protestors and performers.

This fellow has only stubs for hands yet he can skillfully make flowers out of what I presume to be either polymer clay or dough

Only a handful of performers are awful. Depending on how you look at it.

While a group of fat hokkien speaking aunties scared the shit out of a whole lot of people with their dressing and dreadful dancing, we were cracking up at their brazenly fun, devil may care attitude

Some are so talented(one night, there was an Eason Chan lookalike that sounded like an angel ) I am sure they are waiting to be spotted by some record labels.

This Gwai Loh couple, was there every night, even though the music they played was pretty ordinary.

Toy Street

On my second trip here, I came a little too late. It was dark already, a typhoon just passed and most of the shops were already closed.
Still I managed to get an extremely good quality immitation 12 inch plastic toy that cost me just RM$10 ( I think they would milk $80 to $120 off me, back home for the same item because it was so well made, you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference )

So,many years down the road, here I am again . I've taken the MTR this time from Kowloon Island . Last time I took the tram because I was staying on Hong Kong Island.

Toy street was remarkably easy to locate. We just crossed the street and found it immediately

Alas,I was quite dissapointed as I found the toys sold in the shoplots here, not very cheap compared to Malaysia.

Also I thought that there were too few for me to want to spend the entire afternoon here.There are so few shops I really began to wonder why the heck they even bothered to name it such . You can go through every toy shop here in under 2 hours.

Just as we were about to give up, we found this bargain from a makeshift stall in the street.

Now, let me tell you that I have always turned my nose up against fake building blocks. Out of curiosity, I held one in my hand and it changed my view forever .

Such a good copy it can put one company out of business I tell you.

Due to the fact that it cost a ridiculous RM12 or so only for one box that would cost $100 above for the real stuff, we went ahead and splurged on 3 more.

This is the second one.

My only regret is not getting the bigger,more elaborate sets.

Till next time !