Shopkeepers set up
Lan Kwai Fong Market, Hong Kong, China - 4th October 2006
After an aborted attempt to get a Chinese Visa in London fails because they don't mention on the website that same-day service closes at 11am, a plan is hatched to instead stop by in Hong Kong and do it from there. Luckily, this means that there's the best part of a whole day to roam around and re-visit some of the places previously encountered in 2001. As well as known places, there was also one picked at random off the English-Cantonese "please drive me here" leaflet that the hotel provided, but which turns out to be one of the more interesting parts of Central - Lan Kwai Fong. It's fairly early, and not many shops are open, but eventually Nosher happens upon one of Hong Kong's bustling street markets, and hangs out for a while as the crowds build up.
next album: Nanjing by Night, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China - 4th October 2006
previous album: Wan Chai and Central, Hong Kong, China - 2nd October 2006
Stalls under the elevated walkways
Some meat products are pushed around
A portly woman looks in to a shop doorway
Market streets
Neon lights and vegetable stalls
The crowds are out early
An ad-hoc awning is lifted into place
The teeming streets
Meat is prepared in an open-air butchers
Yiu Fat Seafood
More people
Two friends meet
A plastic-covered supermarket
Ice water is tipped out onto the street
Crates of chilled sea food
Inside the butcher's
Bits of bloody fish, and dishes of things
More seafood preparation
There's a queue at the rib shack
An old woman points at fish and shouts
The fishmonger
Silver fish
The Let's Go Frozen Meat Supermarket
There are open tanks of writhing fish
A fruit stall
Inside one of the many crowded and narrow shops
Delivery van on a side street
A street hemmed in by densely-packed tower blocks
Carrots in a basket
A view down the plants-and-vegetables street
Some dude pushes a trolley laden with oil
Walking around the market
The tin dude reads the newspaper
An old dude struggles up a hill
More market mysteries
A cat stretches, up on a balcony
A final vegetable stall
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Shopkeepers set up
Shopkeepers set up
Stalls under the elevated walkways
Some meat products are pushed around
A portly woman looks in to a shop doorway
Market streets
Neon lights and vegetable stalls
The crowds are out early
An ad-hoc awning is lifted into place
The teeming streets
Meat is prepared in an open-air butchers
Yiu Fat Seafood
More people
Two friends meet
A plastic-covered supermarket
Ice water is tipped out onto the street
Crates of chilled sea food
Inside the butcher's
Bits of bloody fish, and dishes of things
More seafood preparation
There's a queue at the rib shack
An old woman points at fish and shouts
The fishmonger
Silver fish
The Let's Go Frozen Meat Supermarket
There are open tanks of writhing fish
A fruit stall
Inside one of the many crowded and narrow shops
Delivery van on a side street
A street hemmed in by densely-packed tower blocks
Carrots in a basket
A view down the plants-and-vegetables street
Some dude pushes a trolley laden with oil
Walking around the market
The tin dude reads the newspaper
An old dude struggles up a hill
More market mysteries
A cat stretches, up on a balcony
A final vegetable stall