Mongkok

Mong Kok on a wonderful sunny afternoon without too much pollution stuffing up the air.

Mong Kok Wet Market

Strings of dried fish hanging in stairways in the corner of the main wet market in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. No space is every wasted in places like this, and the stairwars are an ideal place to hand strings of freshly caught fish.

Goldfish Market

Another of the many cool markets to be found in Mong Kok is the so-called Goldfish Market. There is a two block section along Tung Choi Street to the east of Prince Edward Station (MTR - Tsuen Wan Line) and features dozens, if not hundreds, of shops dedicated solely to aquarium fish and fish products. There are hundreds of types of fish for sale. More sizes and shapes than any normal person has ever seen can be found in the shops along the street and some of them make Charles Darwin look like a fool because they are alive and well! Its worth checking out and a bunch of the shops have some really incredible aquariums set up for both freshwater and saltwater fish with live plants and coral and everything!

Ladies' Market

Hong Kong's infamous Ladies Market is located in the heart Mong Kok in the section of Tung Choi Street between Argyle Street and Dundas Street. It is also referred to as Women's Street (Temple Street is the so-called "Man's Street").

To be honest, most of the stuff for sale at the Ladies Market is overpriced and of poor quality. It is where the hoards of tourists go to shop and experience the logic-defying crowds of Mong Kok, especially during the hours after sunset. Shirts, Skirts, Pants, Blouses and all kinds of other clothing can be found here as well as more watches than most people have seen in their lifetime. Be prepared to haggle quite a bit to get a price thats actually representative of whatever is being bought. For guilos like myself the starting price can be expected to be 2-3 times more than the actual price.

Sai Yeung Choi Street

Sai Yeung Choi Street in Mong Kok, Hong Kong is one of the coolest places in the world if you feel like being an electronics or photo nerd for even a moment. On this street it is possible to find the newest and greatest camera equipment, laptop computers, cell phones and almost anything else imaginable in that product type. If the camera shops and supercenters in New York City are sold out of a camera that just got released (or hasn't been officially released yet) there is guaranteed to be at least one somewhere on this street. Its located in Mong Kok, Hong Kong and is fairly peaceful during the daytime, but once people start getting off work for the day the street becomes extremely crowded and every spot is buzzing with activity and noise.

Fa Yuen Mong Kok

Been a busy first week in Hong Kong. Heck, it hasn't even been a week yet! Well, some news first: one of the pictures I took in Kashgar over the summer placed well in a photo contest and will be published in an Asian magazine! Can't say which mag right now because of a confidentiality thing, but I'll make sure to upload some pictures of the spread and full details when it comes out in December! (Picture is of a Uyghur man in Kashgar)

Second bit of news is that one of my photo stories was featured by JPG Magazine! Check it out, and, if you like the images enough, please vote for the story to get published! (although featured online is cool enough as it is!) Karakoram Highway

This is another new pic I took today. It is the Fa Yuen Street Market in Mong Kok, an awesome place to buy cheap clothing (really good quality too) and amazing fresh fruit.

Mong Kok

This was taken earlier tonight looking west over Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Mong Kok is the most densely populated area in the world, and for now, the place I call home. Its estimated that there is an average of 130,000 people per sq. km. Home to many famous markets specializing in anything from flowers to high-tech computers and cell phones, Mong Kok is an absolutely incredible place where there is never a dull moment. Whoever gave New York City the title of 'the city that never sleeps' obviously didn't know about Mong Kok!



I have been in the country for a few days now and am ready to get everything started with my new life. The hardest part is getting out of the apartment. Not because of culture shock (thats what I got in the United States, not here) but rather a matter of forcing my legs to operate as they should. A couple of nights ago my cousin and I both had our idiot hats on and participated in a 40km nighttime hiking race on Lantau Island. The first 35km were not bad at all, but the last 5km included a rather brutal climb up Lantau Peak, starting near sea level and rising up to the peak (934m) within a distance of around 1.3km before an even more painful descent down the opposite side.