Yuen Po Street - Bird Garden
The Yuen Po Street Bird Garden in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, is a unique Chinese-style park built to preserve the tradition of street bird stalls, featuring traditional architecture, ornate birdcages for sale, bird seed vendors, and elderly locals socializing with their pet birds, offering a fascinating glimpse into local life and craftsmanship. It's a popular spot for both bird lovers and tourists, showcasing beautifully crafted bamboo cages and the cultural phenomenon of taking birds for walks.
Stanley Street - Dai Pai Dong
Nestled in the heart of Central, Stanley Street serves as a dramatic visual bridge between Hong Kong’s colonial past and its hyper-modern present. The Dai Pai Dongs (Sing Kee),are located below the central escalators. The roar of high-pressure gas burners, the rhythmic clanging of heavy iron woks, and the dense "Wok Hei" steam that acts as a natural smoke machine for your shots.
Connaught Road West
Connaught Road West is a visual playground defined by industrial grit and linear geometry. For a photographer, its primary appeal lies in the dramatic interplay of levels. The Connaught Road West Flyover creates a massive concrete ceiling that carves the landscape into sharp, high-contrast zones of deep shadow and piercing sunlight, perfect for street photography and "chiaroscuro" effects.
Ap Lei Chau
Ap Lei Chau is rich in cultural and historical significance, offering insights into the coastal beauty of Hong Kong. Here, the lens captures a jarring yet beautiful harmony: salt-crusted fishing trawlers docked in the shadow of gleaming 50-story residential towers, and incense-filled temples standing defiant against the sprawl of industrial outlet malls.
Des Voeux Road West
Des Voeux Road West, famously known as "Dried Seafood Street," is one of Hong Kong’s most visually rich cultural corridors. For photographers, it offers a raw, cinematic look into the city’s past, where traditional trade thrives in the shadow of rising skyscrapers. A stroll along Des Voeux Road West offers a multi-sensory journey through one of Hong Kong’s most traditional neighborhoods, where history and modern commerce collide.
Street Markets in Jordan
Hong Kong is a treasure trove of amazing bargains and the best places to find them are at the city’s open-air street markets in Jordan. Aside from offering a wide array of wares — many of which make fantastic souvenirs — these marketplaces are also great for practicing your haggling, which adds even more fun to your retail experience. If you want to test your deal-striking skills, head to one of these street markets in and around the vicinity around Temple Street Night Market.
Sham Shui Po market
Sham Shui Po has many lively street markets, electronics outlets, fabric stores, restaurants and food vendors. It is famous for its Golden Computer Shopping Arcade for bargain electronics and accessories. This photo series focuses on the street life in and around the Sham Shui Po wet market.This area is ideal for street photography.
Pei Ho Street
Perfect place to experience Sham Shui Po like a local. The street is lined with stores and stalls that sell daily necessities.
Ki Lung Street
The quaint Ki Lung Street is a paradise for craft enthusiasts and DIY fashionistas. Exudes authentic urban charm, typical of the working-class Sham Shui Po district.
Shanghai Street
For the quintessential Hong Kong shopping experience, head to Shanghai Street in Yau Ma Tei, which sells everything you need to get serious in the kitchen
Nathan Road
Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants
Reclamation Street
Street is lined with old residential buildings, there's a wide range of wholesale and service type businesses with the fresh produce.
Woosung Street
Popular street on Jordan filled with ethnic south asian stalls lined up across the alleys. Adjacent to Temple Street.
Nanking Street
A walking Street in Jordan which runs across all the lanes. Local fares, small businesses selling clothes, souvenirs and daily essentials.
Argyle Street
A busy commercial road cutting across all the interesting alleys and streets of Mong Kok. Plenty to see, eat and shop.
Canton Road
Busy market street in Mongkok with sellers of fruits and other wares. Interesting walk down old shops. Great location for street photography enthusiasts.
Temple Street
Busiest market at night in Hong Kong. Lies in the Yau Ma Tei, Jordan part of the street.
Admiralty
District between Central and Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. Largely commercial, government offices, luxury hotels.
Lai Chi Kok
Lai Chi Kok is known for its wholesale and export shops, which are mainly located in Hong Kong Industrial Centre that hold hundreds upon hundreds of shops.
Lee Garden Road
Busy shopping area in the heart of Hong Kong Causeway Bay.