This weekend Keith, who is a friend of Kristin's, came to visit as he stopped in Hong Kong in his journey around the world. So we decided to play tour guide and help him get around the city since we now have a pretty good grasp on what is where. We decided to visit some of the specialty markets that could be found on the streets of Hong Kong. The first one we went to was the Flower Market, which is probably the nicest smelling part of town that I have been in since the street normally just smell of fish, smoke, and Chinese food of course. My favorite part of the market had to be all the Orchids that they had, there were at least three stores that were filled with different colored Orchids in all sizes.
Right across the street was what would probably be my Grandma, Ita's favorite place to visit, the bird market! Which of course had birds everywhere! In and out of cages. This smelled quite a bit worse than the flowers. The most disturbing parts were the bags filled with live crickets were all over! I tried my best to avoid them.
Afterwords we found a that there was a Hong Kong food festival which consisted of stalls of all kinds of food and tons of free samples, most of which were different kind of teas.But the place was extremely packed and super full of people, making it a bit difficult to navigate.
Once we had our fill of food we went to the last market which is known a the goldfish market even though there were all kinds of different fish. It reminded me a lot of a carnival game since they were all hanging around in little plastic clear bags.
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