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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
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
If you’re visiting Hong Kong for the first time and wondering where to base yourself, the answer for most people is Tsim Sha Tsui. I stayed here for the first two nights of my January trip — at the YMCA Salisbury Hotel, steps from the harbor — and the neighborhood delivered everything a first-time visitor … Read more