Quick note about their transit system. Fantastic! Easy to navigate. It goes everywhere. And makes sense. Something Vancouver should take notes on. It was all under ground, spanned across all of hung kong, the trains were long, fast and quiet. And you were forced to Swipe a pre payed card upon entering and exiting the "fair paid zone " When you arrive through plane in Jong long after you go through customs you can buy bus/tram tickets. We bought the "...

Our first full day in Hong Kong, we both wake up early, have a cold shower ( later we found out that Blue means hot and Red means cold! ) and head out for breakfast with our new found friend from New Brunswick who is also staying in our dorm. We ended up at this "coca - cola " place where the obvious theme was coke. So much so that we suspect our breakfast even had some mixed in. Breakfast was basic since most dim sum places didn't open till 830-9. I had ...

One of our stops during our short trip through Hong Kong was to the Ladies Market in the Mong Kok district. The Ladies market is about 3 - 4 blocks long filled with the usual Tourist market stuff, hand bags, watches, Lazer pointers, cell phone cases, belts, clothes, male G strings shaped like elephants.. The worst is actually seeing hefty, old German guys holding them up, seeing of they will fit! As you walk down the centre of the crowded market. The typica...