Thank you, Elliott, for your kind comment.

Thanks Bill for your thumb of approval!

Thank you Elliott, I love them also, that's what drew me to this building.

Thanks Stan for looking in on my travelogue again and your very positive comment.

One could say that "Hong Kong has it all" - of course it was a British Crown Colony for way over 100 years and this has very much shaped the city - or at least some parts of it. In these parts, signage will be predominantly both in English and Chinese. Other parts though can be very unilingual in Chinese and, for us "uninitiated Westerners", very bewildering. Street markets with their fruits and vegetable stands for instance, as I posted just a few minutes ago, are most of the time only in Chinese and the vendors will mostly only speak Chinese. For me, this was no problem as most of the time I had Susan along, whose native language is Chinese and she enjoys reading the Chinese signs and conversing in Cantonese or Mandarin.

Thank you Earnest, happy to hear that you enjoyed this set.

Thanks John, glad you enjoyed the set.

Thank you Jack for the positive thumbs.

Thank you Bill, glad you enjoyed the set.

Thank you Joe, yes, Hong Kong is busy particularly all over, particularly the throngs crowding Central at noon time, but here in Wan Chai it is a more native crowd often in their a bit more native attires (sometimes it looks like women are shopping in their pajamas ...). There is plenty of modern architecture here and I sometimes miss the older colonial style buildings that were still much more prevalent when I first visited HK in 1968, so it is always nice to find an old building still well maintained as a testimony of the "former glory". Even though HK is a very crowded place, they do have a good number of parks, sometimes very tiny like this one where I met the little photographer.

Thank you Gary for all these thumbs!

Thank you Jim for your nice comment - that little kid really was quite cute - and her parents loved it that I asked to take a picture of her.

Thank you Jim, glad you enjoyed the set.

For your reference:

11 - Trip map of the Hong Kong segment of our tour, Wan Chai is at the northern coast of Hong Kong Island at the bottom of the map

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While the official market building is on Queen's Road East, what locals consider the Wan Chai Market is actually a series of street vendors in the alleys and small streets surrounding the market building. Local food lovers consider the Wan Chai Market to be one of the best "wet markets", i.e. markets that sell fresh vegetables, seafood, meat, etc. It is also a great way to experience how locals shop for food on a daily basis. Here one can find small butcher shops, bakeries, incense shops, stores selling dried foods as well as plenty of small stalls selling vegetables, fruits, dry goods and all the paraphernalia that belongs into a properly equipped kitchen.

In this first section I start out with a view into one of the lanes with shops selling household goods on one side and flowers on the other side, and from there we progress to more flowers and an interesting array of fruits, some common, others quite exotic.


Notes
TRIP INFO: Set # 1 provides a brief introduction to THIS SERIES on SOUTH & EAST ASIA. See it at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-724330-1.html

HONG KONG COUNTRY INFO in set # 196: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-762698-1.html

WAN CHAI INFO in set # 198: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-762881-1.html

EARLIER POSTS of this series: Access my topic list at UHH, the new posts are listed in reverse chronological order:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/user-topic-list?usernum=45105

Thanks for visiting, for improved clarity please view the downloads. I look forward to your comments and questions.

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1 - Stalls selling household goods and flowers at the open air market in an alley

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2 - Floral offerings

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3 - Full Chrysanthemum flowers in a variety of colors

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4 - A variety of fruits and tubers with an ancient scale

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5 - Papaya fruit

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6 - Red wax jambu fruit, native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and India, with a red skin and crisp, white tissue with a taste similar to that of an apple

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7 - Persimmon

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8 - Dragon fruit

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9 - Pomelo fruit

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10 - Chestnuts

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Thank you David for looking in on the tour again, yes, this set is a bit different from the normal temples, building facades, mountains or hilly landscapes or waters in whatever form - but I really got excited here by the colors and the whimsical designs of this artist and just had a good time - and it looks like you and many other viewers found this interesting also. We will go back to the more "staid" images again, but I am always on the lookout for something unorthodox ....