Would you like Engrish with that?
Ladies Market is a shopper’s haven for (mostly) cheap clothes, food, jewellery, stationary and toys, etc.
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Ah look at this photo though! I remember losing track of time by watching countless videos on the Kai Tak plane landings when I was working Hak Nam Henney. The Kai Tak airport was shut down in the late 90′s and just check the videos out to find out why! Luckily footage still exisits today, but don’t expect the HD treatment. My heart was in my mouth when watching the descents, some of the camera angles perfectly capture the planes just gliding over Kowloon. I watched this complilation video a year ago and I think we can all agree with what the woman says at 0.39! I remember being spellbound by the scenery and the juxtaposition of the clashing, high-rise buildings againist the distant peaks, although Kai Tak was situated in Kowloon, the Mong Kok scenery is really quite something in real life.
Long video walking back through the boutique part of Ladies Market.
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Here is your side serving of Engrish.
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A one-size fits all policy operates in the market. It is quite different from the UK, one item of each clothing is put on a hanger and you just show a store worker what you want to buy and they grab its equivalent from somewhere out of sight. That top cost me a couple of quid and the skirt was a little more but I needed it at the time. But expect what I liked to call the ‘Chinese finish’; fraying threads which were not present on the garment you just looked at in the shop! Oh yeah, that photo was taken in a high-tec public toilet in Japan, and please do take a second to notice the squatting toilet in the background. Lovely.
I’m dusting down my basic rating system, which is very subjective. I’m sure everyone in the group would rate the boutiques differently:
Just ‘on the other side’ and further up, is the other part of flea market which is a haggler’s paradise. I was forewarned about the tourist trap it was and the biggest give away was the high concentration of foreigners, something I never saw again in Hong Kong.
By all means see it for yourself, especially if you like to haggle with the best of them. But walking down just one block of this would suffice because every other stall stocks the same products.
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There is so much more to Hong Kong than this tourist spot. But to be fair, I just don’t have a good track record with markets.
