Last fall I attended the Chinese University of Hong Kong for as an exchange student. One of my HK friend recommended me to go visit a section of Tung Choi street, also known to the locals as "Goldfish Street" in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon. And holy crap I was not disappointed. The section was about 2 or 3 blocks of fish store or pet store one after another and stacked on top of each other. Not only were there so many, the quality in most of them were quite good, like you peps in SF who think Aqua Forest is legit stuff, some of the nicer stores here completely blows it out of the water in my opinion, both in displays/sale tanks and price... Fissidens geppii cost about 20HKD (1USD = 7.8HKD) and the shrimps were pretty cheap as well.
Anyway for those thinking of visiting HK for awesome food and a nightlife that ends at sunrise. To get to Goldfish Street you get off at the Mong Kok East MTR station and walk west on the cat walk, there are signs guiding you to Tung Choi. Around the area is also the "Flower Market" which sells exotic house plants and a Bird street.
Here are some pics from my trip, I wish I took more.... the stores were generally super narrow, crowded, and some won't let you take pics.
Enjoy =)
(some of the vertical pics seems a bit smooshed, click them to view them)
The start of the street....
A sign for a beetle shop
Bag o shrimps
Thanks for looking.
Anyway for those thinking of visiting HK for awesome food and a nightlife that ends at sunrise. To get to Goldfish Street you get off at the Mong Kok East MTR station and walk west on the cat walk, there are signs guiding you to Tung Choi. Around the area is also the "Flower Market" which sells exotic house plants and a Bird street.
Here are some pics from my trip, I wish I took more.... the stores were generally super narrow, crowded, and some won't let you take pics.
Enjoy =)
(some of the vertical pics seems a bit smooshed, click them to view them)
The start of the street....
A sign for a beetle shop
Bag o shrimps
Thanks for looking.