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Everbest Photo Supplies
This extremely reliable shop is where many of Hong Kong's professional photographers buy their equipment. Same day or next day China visas are an odd but useful sideline here.
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Festival Walk Shopping Centre
Kowloon Tong can claim Festival Walk, the territory's most luxurious shopping complex, and, in typical Hong Kong fashion, the centre boasts a fair few superlatives itself. Festival Walk has the largest cinema, bookshop and ice-skating rink in the territory.
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Flow Organic Bookshop
Quite what makes this secondhand and exchange bookshop 'organic' is anyone's guess, but it does have a focus on spiritual and New Age literature. On the 2nd floor are Chinese-language books and relaxation tapes and CDs. Enter from Cochrane St.
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Fook Ming Tong Tea Shop
Teas of various ages and propensities - from gunpowder to Nanyan Ti Guan Yin Crown Grade, and all sorts of tea-making accoutrements.
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Giga Sports
This vast sports superstore is Hong Kong's largest, stocking a wide range of sports equipment, backpacks, clothing and footwear. This place will help turn your game on.
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Golden Computer Arcade
This centre sells computers and components as well as software, VCDs and DVDs, all at the lowest prices this side of Shenzhen.
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Granville Rd
If you want to hunt for bargains and have the time and inclination to riffle through racks and piles of factory seconds, the dozen or so factory outlet stores along Granville Rd should reward you with prices at a fraction of store prices. It's pot luck as to what labels you'll find, although they tend to be familiar, slightly premium mainstream casual and leisure brands (both international and local).
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H&M
This Swedish chain has finally brought its inexpensive, of-the-moment clothing to Hong Kong. The appeal is discount prices with lines that track high-end fashion trends closely, partly with the help of fashion collaborations with the likes of Madonna, Stella McCartney and Kylie Minogue.
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Harbour City
This is an enormous place, with 700 shops, 50 food and beverage outlets and five cinemas in four separate zones: for kids, sport, fashion and cosmetics and beauty. There's also a large Lane Crawford department store. Every major brand is represented.
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Harvey Nichols
Britain's Harvey Nichols has brought its diverse, profuse and on-the-pulse range of couture and smart street fashions to Hong Kong, occupying four floors at the Landmark.
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HMV
This Aladdin's cave of music not only has Hong Kong's largest selection of CDs and DVDs, but also a great range of music-related literature. There are branches in Causeway Bay (2504 3669; 1st fl, Style House, The Park Lane) and Tsim Sha Tsui (2302 0122; 2nd fl, HK Pacific Centre, 28 Hankow Rd).
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Hobbs & Bishops Fine Art
This shop smelling of beeswax specialises in lacquered Chinese wooden furniture from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its taste leans towards the sleek and handsome rather than gilded and showy pieces.
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Honeychurch Antiques
This fine shop, run by an American couple for more than four decades, specialises in antique Chinese furniture, jewellery and Chinese export and antique English silver. There's a wide range of stock, from the early Chinese dynasties right up to the 20th century.
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Hong Kong Records
This local outfit has a good selection of Cantonese and international sounds, including traditional Chinese, jazz, classical and contemporary music. There's also a good range of DVDs and VCDs of both Chinese films and Western movies with Chinese subtitles. There's also a Kowloon Tong branch (2265 8299; Shop L1-02, Level 1, Festival Walk, 80-88 Tat Chee Ave).
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I.T
This shop and the women's-only b+ab shop nextdoor sell stylish mainstream fashion fairly typical of the type that abounds in Hong Kong, although it's a notch up in quality and price from the likes of Bossini. There are i.t shops in all the major shopping areas including in Causeway Bay (2506 0186; Shop 517, 5th fl, Times Square, 1 Matheson St).
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Ifc Mall
As if Central didn't have nearly enough luxury retail space already, they built this swanky shopping centre with 200 high-fashion boutiques linking the One and Two IFC towers and the Four Seasons Hotel. Outlets include Patrick Cox, Geiger, Lngchamp, Kenzo, Vivienne Tam, Zegna...we could go on. The Hong Kong Airport Express Station is downstairs.
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In Square
This landmark building in Causeway Bay houses dozens of reliable computer shops selling both hardware and software. There's also space to browse at leisure here, unlike the usual electronics warren.
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Indosiam
Hong Kong's first (and only) truly antiquarian bookshop deals in rare titles relating to Asian countries. It's particularly strong in Thailand, China and the former French colonies (ie Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos).
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Island Beverley
Crammed into buildings, up escalators and in back lanes are Hong Kong's malls of micro-shops selling designer threads, a kaleidoscope of kooky accessories and an Imelda Marcos of footwear. Island Beverley is where Hong Kong's youngest mall-trawlers shop for clothes and trinkets or just to capture their moment of retail therapy on sticker machines.
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Izzue
Simple, energetic and comfortable styles in this chain of bright, modern boutiques. There are 15 outlets throughout the territory, including a branch in Central (2868 4066; Upper ground fl, 10 Queen's Rd Central).
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Jilian, Lingerie On Wyndham
Swimwear and a vast range of French and Italian lingerie from gossamer, delicates small enough to swallow with a glass of water to rather outré corsetry with strings and stays and such. There's even a small range of men's designer smalls if you just can't put up with your man's industrial-sized underpants any longer. Labels stocked include Eres, Argentovivo, I.D. Sarrieri, Cadolle, Aubade, Revanche de la Femme, Rosa Cha and Grigioperla.
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Joint Publishing
This primarily Chinese-language bookshop has a good range of English-language books about China, and CDs and DVDs for studying the language. It's also strong in local and China maps. Most English-language titles are on the mezzanine floor. There are 15 other JP outlets, many in MTR stations, including a branch in Wan Chai (2838 2081; 158 Hennessy Rd).
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Joyce
This multidesigner store is a good choice if you're short of time rather than money: Issey Miyake, Alexander McQueen, Marc Jacobs, Comme des Garçons, Chloë, Pucci, Yohji Yamamoto and several Hong Kong fashion names are just some of the designers with wearables are on display. There's another branch of in Admiralty. For the same duds at half the price, visit Joyce Warehouse (closed Mon), opposite the Aberdeen waterfront.
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Karin Weber Gallery
Karin Weber has an enjoyable mix of Chinese country antiques and contemporary Asian artworks. She also gives short lectures on antiques and the scene in Hong Kong and is able to arrange antique-buying trips into Guangdong for serious buyers.
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Kelly & Walsh
This smart shop has a good selection of art, design and culinary books, and the staff know the stock well. Books for children are shelved in a handy kids' reading lounge. There's also a Central branch (2810 5128; Shop 305, 3rd fl, Exchange Square Tower I).
