Day 1 (Friday): Mong Kok - shopping heaven..

Assalamualaikum...

Mong Kok means 'fluorishing/busy corner'. I've heard of Mong Kok from Din since i was still undecided of going to HK. It is one of the attraction in HK especially for those who want to buy bargained goods with low prices.
In short, it's like our Petaling Street, only much bigger and with more variety.
As a district, Mong Kok, had its name in Guinness World of Record as the highest population density in the world!

To go there, we used MTR (Mass Transit Railway) or subway, which only costed us HKD 5. The place/district where we stayed is called Tsim Sha Tsui, and from there we take the subway to Mong Kok.
I should tell you a little about MTR. It is the most common public transport in HK. And very efficient. Imagine our Putra LRT (2 long carriages/unit) and plus like another 12 same carriages, you will get MTR HK. Also, just like Putra, MTR also moves mostly underground. But picture a double story railway underground in certain places, and you will get the complexity and the modernized MTR in HK.

At 6.30 pm, it was very busy as people just got back from work. We waited for our train and jostling with them to get inti the train.
About 10 minutes and 3 stations later, we emerged unscratched at Mong Kok Station and started our walk to Mong Kok Road.
To show the sheer size of Mong Kok Roads, it was divided into couple numbers of roads, mainly Ladies' Street, selling women's things, Temples' Street or commonly known as Men's Street, Flower Market, Goldfish Market and so many others. Oh, there's also a Fa Yuen Street or Sport Shoes Street, which i didn't know until later.

If any of you plan to go to Hong Kong, Mong Kok is a must-place to visit. In the short visit that evening, i got a good bargain for a Diesel bag (Din help reduced the price from HKD 160 to only HKD 100), and also some key-chains and fridge magnets. The original plan was to just take a look at Mong Kok, before coming back on the final day i'm in HK to do the shopping. But who can resist such temptations of cheap and looking great things all around you, right...?!