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Most Hong Kong itineraries are built around the harbor view, the Peak, and the temple circuit. The Mong Kok Flower Market and Bird Garden belong to a different category — experiences that have nothing to do with the tourist circuit and everything to do with how the city actually lives. I visited on the afternoon … Read more
Temple Street arrives in layers. The first thing you notice is the smell — grilled meats and incense mixing in the narrow lanes before you’ve seen a single stall. Then the noise — vendors calling, Cantonese opera from somewhere deeper in the market, the general compression of sound that a covered street market at full … Read more
Mong Kok doesn’t ease you in. From the moment you come up from the MTR and hit the street level, the neighborhood announces itself — the density of people, the noise of competing music from adjacent shops, the smell of street food mixing with the exhaust of buses on Nathan Road, the vertical stacking of … Read more