Tai Kwun, the brilliantly redeveloped police station in Central/ photo: Vijay Verghese
Time was when swindled tourists would camp outside Hong Kong camera stores waving placards and demanding justice – while bored shop attendants picked their teeth – much to the amusement of passersby and newspaper reporters. "You show me money," was the stock counter response. I recall being turfed out of a Mongkok camera store 30 years ago when I first arrived in Hong Kong because I had the temerity to ask to see the Nikon I was supposed to be buying.
This is a shopper mad Mecca where everything and anything goes - swindles, bait-and-switch scams, I-don't-speak-English rebuffs and, on occasion, inordinately polite shop owners who let you browse completely unmolested. Tame is for old-fogey discount stores in Penang or Hawai. THE Hong Kong shopping experience is always wild, often glitzy, pushy, but never tame. JUMP TO Causeway Bay | Wanchai | Admiralty | Central | Peak, Stanley, Horizon Plaza | Taikoo Shing | TST, Kowloon, Sham Shui Po | Mongkok | Kowloon Tong, Shatin | Kowloon Bay, Telford Plaza | Citygate and Airport duty-free shopping Golden Computer Arcade is here too/ photo: Vijay Verghese Sham Shui Po's Fuk Wa Street (MTR Exit D2) overflows with weekend shoppers as electronics, textiles, clothes and accessories are rolled out by the yard. SEE ALSO Hong Kong fun guide | Hong Kong business hotels | HK Haven Street fun guide | Shanghai shopping guide | Kuala Lumpur shopping guide | Bangkok shopping guide | Singapore shopping guide | Macau guide| Tokyo | Songdo fun guide | Manila fun guide | Covid-19 responses
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