Must-see shopping in Hong Kong

  • Fish for sale at Tung Choi Street fish market, Mong Kok.

    Ladies' Market

    Kowloon

    The Tung Choi Street Market is a cheek-by-jowl affair offering cheap clothes and trinkets. Vendors start setting up their stalls as early as noon, but it…

  • Horizon Plaza

    Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island

    Tucked away on the southern coast of Ap Lei Chau, this enormous outlet housed in a converted factory building contains 100 shops over 25 storeys. Most…

  • Wattis Fine Art

    Hong Kong

    This upstairs gallery has an outstanding collection of antique maps, lithographs, photos and posters for sale. Rarely will you find such an extensive…

  • G.O.D.

    Hong Kong

    Goods of Desire – or G.O.D. – is a cheeky local lifestyle brand, selling homewares, clothes, books and gifts with retro Hong Kong themes. Fun buys include…

  • Yue Hwa Chinese Products Emporium

    Kowloon

    This five-storey behemoth is one of only a few old-school Chinese department stores left in the city. Products include silk scarves, traditional Chinese…

  • G.O.D.

    Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island

    One of the coolest born in Hong Kong shops around, G.O.D. does irreverent takes on classic Hong Kong iconography. Think mobile-phone covers printed with…

  • Kapok

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    In the hip Star St area, this Hong Kong–born boutique has combined two old shops to create a new 1500-sq-ft flagship. It stocks a fastidiously curated…

  • Fashion Walk

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    A mostly street-level fashion-shopping mecca spanning four streets in Causeway Bay – Paterson, Cleveland, Great George and Kingston. It's where you'll…

  • Pacific Place

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    A polished marble sea of high-end couture and accessories, posh Pacific Place manages to avoid the malady of mall fatigue via its expansive design,…

  • Shanghai Tang at Takashimaya Shopping Centre.

    Shanghai Tang

    Hong Kong

    This elegant four-level shop is a local institution, and one of the few places in Central that specialises in luxury Chinese style. It's the place to go…

  • Times Square

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    The hyperkinetic buzz at the heart of Causeway Bay, Times Square is retail nirvana for Hong Kong's shoppers, with mainstream brands over 13 floors (it was…

  • Kowloon Soy Company

    Hong Kong

    The shop (c 1917) for artisanal, naturally fermented soy sauce, premier cru yellow-bean sauce (Chinese miso) and other high-quality condiments; it also…

  • Chiu Kee Porcelain Studio

    Outlying Islands

    Chiu Kee (c 1970s) is one of the precious few places around that still makes hand-painted pottery. You'll see the works of its founders, the late Mr Lam…

  • K11 Select

    Kowloon

    In the K11 mall, this shop – like a mini department store – is a funky destination for clothing and accessories, much of it by Hong Kong designers. Matter…

  • Eslite

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    You could waste hours inside this swanky three-floor Taiwanese bookshop, which features a massive collection of English and Chinese books and magazines, a…

  • Edit x Editecture

    Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island

    This large office-shop-showroom belongs to two friends who have won awards designing everything from restaurants to clothes. The highlight here is the…

  • Apliu Street Flea Market

    Kowloon

    A geek’s heaven, this grungy flea market specialises in all things digital and electronic. The market spills over into Pei Ho St.

  • Rise Shopping Arcade

    Kowloon

    Bursting the seams of this minimall is cheap streetwear from Hong Kong, Korea and Japan, with a few knock-offs chucked in for good measure. Patience and a…

  • Pedestrian browses through a window at the Sogo Shopping Centre in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

    Sogo

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    The range is mind-boggling at this Japanese-owned department store, with 17 floors of high-end fashion and accessories, cosmetics, homewares and much more…

  • Shoppers amidst high-rise buildings at Island Beverley intersection, Causeway Bay.

    Island Beverly Mall

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    Crammed into cubicles, up escalators and in the back lanes of this unassuming mall next to Sogo are microshops selling local designer threads, garments,…

  • Interior of Arch Angel Antiques at Central 53-55 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong

    Arch Angel Antiques

    Hong Kong

    Though the specialities are ancient porcelain and tombware, Arch Angel packs a lot more into its two floors: it has everything from old ink drawings and…

  • Chan Wah Kee Cutlery Store

    Kowloon

    At this humble shop, octogenarian Mr Chan, one of Asia's few remaining master knife-sharpeners, uses nine different stones to grind each blade, and…

  • Wah Fung Chinese Goods Centre

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    This very local Chinese department store has everything from ginseng to silk baby slippers and acupuncture models to calligraphy brushes. Crowded, dusty…

  • Kevin Cheung

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    Product designer Kevin Cheung's workshop is also his home, occupying a lovely heritage unit in Wan Chai's Blue House cluster. Cheung collects Hong Kong…

  • Joyce Warehouse

    Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island

    Off-season items at Joyce's urban branches come to this warehouse outlet where they're sold at a discount of at least 20%. You'll find Ann Demeulemeester,…

  • Candle Company

    Hong Kong

    The flagship store for Hong Kong's Carroll & Chan brand of candles and diffusers sells gift-worthy products like ecofriendly beeswax candles, paper lotus…

  • Armoury

    Hong Kong

    The Armoury can help any man look like a dapper gentleman – the elegant shop is a specialist in refined menswear sourced globally. You can choose from…

  • Blanc de Chine

    Hong Kong

    This sumptuous store specialises in Chinese men’s jackets and silk dresses for women, both off-the-rack and made-to-measure. A gorgeous sequinned gown…

  • Cuffs

    Hong Kong

    The funkiest of Hong Kong's new generation of tailoring stores, Cuffs offers fashion-forward fabrics and custom-makes not only suits, shirts and tuxes,…

  • Only Alice

    Hong Kong

    In an area spoilt for choice with independent fashion, this contemporary Hong Kong brand stands out with its wearable clothing and reasonable prices…

  • Queen’s Road West Incense Shops

    Hong Kong

    At 136–150 Queen's Rd West, there are shops selling incense and paper offerings for the dead. The latter are burned to propitiate departed souls and the…

  • Soul Art

    Hong Kong

    This Běijīng import brings traditional Chinese culture to life in the form of handmade polymer clay and cloth figurines – and it's actually a lot cooler…

  • Initial

    Hong Kong

    This attractive shop carries stylish, multifunctional urbanwear and accessories with European and Japanese influences. The clothes are created by local…

  • Niin

    Hong Kong

    Ever wondered what happens to all the abalone shells thrown out by Hong Kong's restaurants? Some of them end up here, reimagined as beautiful pendants,…

  • Chan Shing Kee

    Hong Kong

    This shop with a three-storey, museum-like showroom is run by Daniel Chan, the third generation of a family that’s been in the business for 70 years. Chan…

  • Tai Yuen Street Market

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    Food, clothing, lucky cats, phone covers and fake watches can be haggled for at this bustling street market between Queen's Rd East and Johnston Rd. It's…

  • Giordano Ladies

    Hong Kong

    Giordano Ladies is a midrange Hong Kong brand that channels a Scandi-chic aesthetic with graceful clothing in a neutral palette. Its offering is a lot…

  • Hysan Place

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    This shiny 17-storey mall is filled with hundreds of ever-trendy Japanese, Korean and local clothing and beauty brands in a more upmarket environment than…

  • Two Girls

    Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island

    Hong Kong's first cosmetics brand has been selling fragrant, highly affordable creams, potions, perfumes and talcs since 1898. The pretty, retro packaging…

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