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This is a part of town undergoing steady renewal with great photo- opps and sudden deals/ photo: Vijay Verghese TIME was when swindled tourists would camp outside Hong Kong camera stores waving placards and demanding justice – while bored shop attendants picked their teeth – much to the amusement of passersby and newspaper reporters. Hong Kong tram trundles down Hennessy Rd / photo: Vijay Verghese. Nowadays, with the city on the move and jackhammers everywhere, there’s no space for shopper vigilantes and, fortunately, less need, though the city’s jean- clad cognoscenti did arise to protest over a Tsimshatsui store that disallowed locals from snapping their cameras in the vicinity while big- spending overseas visitors were free to shoot. Odd matter that, as all the latest designer fashion is available in 3. D online for personal tryouts and more. What’s the big secret? Still, charging at bared cameras remains a holy crusade for mall security guards and shop attendants.
Slide Show. E- mail Page. Print. The TST argle bargle has died down, not least of all due to the Consumer Council’s (tel: . They take issue with strong- arm dealers and blacklist the worst offenders. And with 4. 5,0. 00 recorded complaints in 2.
There’s no denying that the retail experience here is arguably one of the best and most varied in Asia. Yes, pottering about TST’s fabled “Golden Mile” along Nathan Road, can still be fraught with peril – chiefly bait- and- switch, where the shopper puts money down for one model and is handed another. And your arm can still be twisted, literally, by the handbag sellers of the infamous Ladies Market, Mong Kok. Reason enough to head straight into the enticing arms of online shopping deals but then where's the fun in that?
Grab a good map, print out this fun guide, study the directions to the best shopping malls and street markets, don sturdy walking shoes, put up your dukes, and you’re ready to roll. More on where to stay in our Hong Kong business hotels review that includes family digs and budget options. This is the area where some of the most dense and busy Hong Kong shopping malls are located.
Visit on Saturdays at your own peril. MTR exits D1, D2, D3 and D4 will deposit you around or inside Sogo, the landmark meeting point Japanese department store (tel: 2. Salvatore Ferragamo (GF), Gucci, agnes b, Miu Miu, Anna Klein, Armani, Calvin Klein jeans, Burberry, Chanel and Brooks Brothers Fleece, hobnob comfortably with esoteric niche brands like Helly Hansen (sportswear from Norway, 4. F), and Evisu (casual young fashion, 3. F). Find shoes and leather goods in B1 and food in B2 while cosmetics are easily accessed on the teeming street level ground floor. The Sogo website features an excellent floor by floor guide and the store is open 1.
Next to Sogo on Hennessy Road, the Sony Style HK flagship store on the 1. East Point Centre (tel: 2. Sony products. There’s another 6,0. Sony Style in Mongkok’s Wai Fung Commercial Building, between Nathan Road and Sai Yeung Choi Street, easily accessed from the Mongkok MTR station Exit D1 or D3. Send us your Feedback / Letter to the Editor. Just north of Sogo, facing Hong Kong's storied harbourside and the Yacht Club is wtc more (www. Excelsior Hotel. This is the rebranded World Trade Centre.
On the fourth floor (P4) you'll find a large and well stocked Muji (www. Prices are surprisingly reasonable at this Japanese . Pick up a long- sleeve cotton shirt for HK$1. HK$2. 99. Next door is Korean shoe store Spur with its seven- layer design including arch support and anti- skid outsole, with prices from HK$6. On P5 is Uni. Qlo (www.
And on P3, a large Global Work (world fashion) store. SOGO is a landmark department store/ photo: Vijay Verghese. Also explore Acca Kappa for quality, if expensive, hand- made shaving items for men (wooden hairbrushes too), Lazy Susan for watches and knick- knacks, Jill Scott for handbags and shoes (calf leather bag for HK$2,5. F), Sugarman for funky kids' clothes and t- shirts where a micro pair of baby shoes will set you back HK$4.
Level One, Maud Frizon for brightly patterned cloth slip- on flats for women from HK$6. Also find twist, Zstamp, Ecco shoes, Pink Box, Miffy x 2% (cute rabbit motifs if that's your style, www. Chow Tai Fook jeweller. For cosmetics, beauty and skin care products there's FANCL, Jurlique, and Make up Forever.
The large sport b Paris at street level on Jaffe Road at the back entrance is for the casually, or energetically elegant and has little to do with sports. Try Titicaca on P3, a small store selling Peruvian style woollen scarves for HK$1. HK$5. 99 and up. Look for the tiny llama at the entrance. Between wtc more and Sogo in the warren of side lanes criss- crossing Jaffe Road and Lockhart Road, you'll find an arsenal of cheaper stores selling shoes, women's accessories, cosmetics and jeans. One such haunt is the ever popular and stylish Maple (4.
Lockhart Road, www. Sheung Wan, GF 1. Lee Garden Road Causeway Bay, and at 6. Johnston Road Wanchai. Pick up a none too tatty knitted jersey for just HK$9.
HK$2. 9 or a cotton top for HK$1. Great deals abound, especially during summer and winter sales. Online shopping in Hong Kong is possible at several of the links provided in this article. Right behind wtc are bossini (www.
G2. 00. 0, Clark shoes, Hannah (handbags), a large Broadway for electronics, cameras and mobile phones, and City Chain for watches. Displayed at 4. 92 Lockhart Road (and at i. Square in TST) are the stylish Italian deerskin handbags by Cobo (www www. Maud Frizon at WTC More/ photo: Vijay Verghese. The bags are finely crafted and feature reversible designs with bright floral patterns on one side and elegant monochrome on the other, perfect for the office and apres- work play. You'll need to fork out around HK$3,5.
On the same street you'll pass The Body Shop, bauhaus, Apple Shop (jeans from HK$8. Mirabell, Joy & Peace, Staccato, Millie's and Le Saunda. This is a good small stretch of road for quality leather at a less- than- pinching price. Around the corner is Jipi Japa, and at 4. Jaffe Road is Milan Station with an abundance of colourful handbags.
Around the block on Hennessey Road walking towards Sogo are a Breitling watch store and Kiehl's skin care. East of the Sogo department store across Great George Street are homey quick turnover stores Giordano and Crocs, along with two boutique shopping malls for the young and trendy that only open at midday (Island Beverly, 1 Great George Street) and 1pm (Laforet, www. In their favour it must be said these youthful stores featuring bright Hong Kong designers remain open until 1. Laforet, up the escalator after Excelsior Hotel, serves up accessories, cheap cosmetics, shoes, bags and wigs. Drop by Time Silver(tel: 3. Sweet Poison (shop 1. But be warned, more voluptuously proportioned Western women may not find sizes that fit, as displays here are geared more towards svelte physiques and dainty feet.
Still, it has to be fun with shops named Sweet, Ice- Vanilla, Sugar and Gorgeous. Explore. Just a tad less cramped but also tightly packed into teeny corridors, Island Beverly provides some offbeat design and distraction that is always popular with discerning ladies. Pop by the basement Izzue and head up to the upper ground floor cubicle MAG (UG 8. HK$5. 99. Island Beverly shop MAG/ photo: Vijay Verghese.
They also have knitted tops and dresses. This rabbit warren of a mall is home to the likes of the sassy Hiroshima, Eden shoes (soft calf- leather boots for women at HK$8. Tippie's Corner for ladies' footwear from HK$5.
Around the corner, still on Great George, Causeway Place (www. Among the finds here could be cosmetic products from Two Girls, a Hong Kong brand that has been around since 1.
In this sliver of a building are women's sports shoes from HK$1. HK$1. 50. Across the street from here at the Causeway Bay MTR Exit E is Great George Building and the light spangled Fashion Walk (www. Paterson Street and Kingston Street). At Great George Building find crowd- puller Swarovski, Max Mara, A/X Armani Exchange, agnes b, Calvin Klein underwear, DIESEL, DKNY, I. T, Adidas, Stefanel, Burberry Black and Blue (aimed at younger twenty something shoppers), Vivienne Tam, double dott and a large Samsonite store for all your sturdy travel bag needs. Along Paterson and Kingston Streets spot Vivienne Westwood, an H& M Pop- Up Store, Patrizia Pepe, Francfranc, yet another DIESEL, and wild offbeat window dressing at the eye- catching Irregular Choice (1- 3 Cleveland Street, www.
Try on a Chuckles shoe with a gnome for a high heel, a . Think rainbows, ribbons, floral stick- ons and pricetags at around HK$1,0. Innis Free Korean cosmetics Causeway Bay/ photo: Vijay Verghese. Also make time for the I. T store (www. ithk. Kingston Street for a shopping buffet.
I. T is a Hongkong trendsetter and has a huge number of outlets around the city. Its brands include Comme de Garcons, Chocoolate, French Connection, Helmut Lang, Tsumori Chisato, Zadig & Voltaire, Mysty Woman and more. You’ll find I. T (and i. Why the upper and lower casing? The lower- case i. Then there's double- park for lifestyle streetwear.
This company is not to be confused with Far IT that handles retail outlets for mid to top- end brands like D& G, and Versace jeans. The last block towards Victoria Park on Great George Street ends with Style House (Park Lane Hotel Shopping Arcade) to the left and Windsor House to the right. Style House is perhaps best known for its large IKEA store with do- it- yourself home furnishings from Sweden with unpronounceable names, and a long serving HMV (www. F Pearl City around the corner at 2.
Paterson Street, and replaced by HSBC).