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Kowloon’s numerous department stores and shopping centres vie with the factory outlets along Granville Road, which are a must for bargain shoppers.

The superb Harbour City is the one of the area’s largest and most famous shopping and entertainment complexes, including Ocean Terminal, where visiting cruise liners berth. The nearby Star House features shops selling the latest electronic and computer equipment.

Canton Road, opposite Harbour City, is the perfect place to browse for designer wear and snag superb pieces from local and international designers.

Nathan Road’s famous “Golden Mile” bustles with shoppers day and night. It’s renowned for its dazzling array of brightly lit, neon-decorated shops, hotels, restaurants and nightspots.

ELEMENTS, MTRC’s flagship “designer” shopping mall, is conveniently located at MTR Kowloon Station where shops of renowned brands converge. ELEMENTS is a place for unique shopping, leisure, dining, entertainment and culture experiences and has attracted prestigious brands and premium quality products from around the world, including world-renowned brands that are making their maiden exposures and debuts in Hong Kong.

Yau Ma Tei
Yau Ma Tei offers a surprise at every turn. With neon lights illuminating the night sky, Yau Ma Tei’s streets offer an assortment of jewellery and clothes shops. But Yau Ma Tei is more famous for its street markets. Take a stroll through the Temple Street Night Market, the Jade Market and discover the neighbourhood’s charms.

Mong Kok

Mong Kok is most famous for the hustle and bustle of its theme streets and fascinating street markets. For the latest audio-visual, electronic and telecommunications products, head for Sai Yeung Choi Street South, which also hosts numerous cosmetics shops and boutiques. Shantung Street and Dundas Street are famous for selling the hottest Japanese and Western fashions and accessories.

Round the corner on Tung Choi Street is the hugely popular Ladies’ Market, where shoppers can find bargain-priced clothing, accessories and household knick-knacks, and men’s and children’s items. “Sportswear Street” on Fa Yuen Street is where you can find trendy sportswear and sports equipment. Also check out the colourful Goldfish Market at the northern end, and the nearby Flower Market and Yuen Po Street Bird Garden.

For a more modern experience, head across Nathan Road to Mong Kok’s latest landmark, Langham Place, with 56,000m² of air-conditioned retail space where shoppers can find practically everything.

Hung Hom

Take a stroll through Hong Kong’s inland cruise ship. The Whampoa is “moored” on the site of a former dry dock. This 110-metre-long boat-shaped entertainment centre, game station, shops and clubs – the “Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa” – is the focal point of the adjacent, multi-towered HK$4 billion Whampoa Gardens housing development.

Situated at Phase 8 of the Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa, the Whampoa Gourmet Place brings together several good restaurants offering local cuisines and includes restaurants serving Szechuan dan-dan noodles, wonton noodles and the Guangdong barbecue food.

Kowloon Tong

Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong is one of the most popular shopping malls in Hong Kong. Check out its retail outlets offering everything from home furnishings to fashion, many restaurants, an ice-skating rink and multiplex cinema. It’s right above the Kowloon Tong MTR Station.

Sham Shui Po

Sham Shui Po is renowned for its electronic gadgets. In Sham Shui Po you’ll be able to pick up virtually any computer products at a competitive price. Apliu Street, also in this area, is a market with an abundance of character. Focussed on nearly new electronic goods, it’s a good place to soak up the Hong Kong market experience and maybe even pick up a bargain.

Courtesy of Hong Kong Tourism Board