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Hi,
I'll be taking my family to Hong Kong for a few days next month. I have a mind to see if I can find an HTC Diamond Touch Pro, any recommendations on a good place to shop for phones in HK?
Any other recommendations for cool stuff to do in HK, good restaurants, or hotels with character are very welcome! Thanks!!
I'm from Hong Kong!
Yay! Another Hong Kong tourist.
Firstly (and most importantly, of course), there is a gadget heaven in a shopping district called Mong Kok (yes, feel free to giggle; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Kok ), a street called Sai Yeung Choi Street: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Yeung_Choi_Street
Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h....170265&spn=0.009627,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=addr
All the big shops there are legit and quite competitive, so don't forget to haggle!
Hotel-wise I don't know what your budget is, but the one that I usually put my clients in is the Royal Plaza Hotel, which is also in Mong Kok and is above a great shopping mall: http://www.royalplaza.com.hk/
If you're looking for a budget hotel, the Shamrock Hotel in Jordan (near Tsim Sha Tsui - another shopping heaven; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsim_Sha_Tsui
) would be a good choice: http://www.shamrockhotel.com.hk/en/index.html
Obviously you should try to book via travel agents, which will make it a lot cheaper.
Restaurant: if you can read Chinese, there's a fantastic online guide for HK restaurants. I've personally picked three, one of which I have been to before (the second one):
Super Star Seafood Restaurant 鴻星海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3391
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3391&mapType=1
East Ocean Seafood Restaurant 東海海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=690
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=690&mapType=1
Tack Hsin Restaurant 德興火鍋海鮮酒家:
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3423
(map) http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=3423&mapType=1
They are all in the Tsim Sha Tsui district - just an 8-minute underground train (we call it the MTR) journey from Mong Kok, and it is another shopping heaven. However, don't bother visiting those so-called "tax free" electronics shops, as we don't have value-added tax anyway plus they have many scamming tricks up their sleeves, just for tourists.
The buffet restaurant in the hotel is also very nice, and I think they do afternoon discounts which would be great for your family.
Other attractions and links:
Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong - my favourite shopping mall in HK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Walk
Central - a financial district with the skyscrapers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central,_Hong_Kong
IFC - a shopping mall in Central: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_International_Finance_Centre#One_International_Finance_Centre
Wong Tai Sin - a Taoist temple, very popular in Hong Kong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Tai_Sin
Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Tan_Buddha
Tai O - a fishing town on Lantau Island: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_O
Ocean Park - a theme park on Hong Kong Island with REAL animals (unlike our tiny HK Disneyland): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Park_Hong_Kong
Kam Shan Country Park - a nice walk with wild monkeys everywhere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kam_Shan_Country_Park
http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/country/cou_vis/cou_vis_cou/cou_vis_cou_ks/cou_vis_cou_ks.html
Repulse Bay - the best beach in Hong Kong, in my opinion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repulse_Bay,_Hong_Kong
Transport in HK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Hong_Kong
Feel free to ask me any questions.
Richard,
Wow, thanks for so much great info!! I'm planning the trip now and you have made my life a heck of a lot easier, my wife also thanks you for saving her from one of my "it will be an adventure..." trips!! I really appreciate the links to attractions, restaraunts, etc. Also thanks for the heads-up about the "tax-free" shops...apparently I was scammed last time I was there
You rock!
No worries
My pleasure. Enjoy Hong Kong!
More attractions
Just remembered some more places that I missed out:
Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden - beautiful countryside park, requires bus to get to but definitely worth it. It is something that you'd never expect to see in such a crowded city! http://www.kfbg.org/kfb/homepage.xml?lang=en
Mong Kok Computer Centre (again, for us lads really): http://maps.google.com.hk/maps?f=q&...4.17107&spn=0.004814,0.009656&z=17&iwloc=addr
Popular (and also my favourite) street markets, most are in Mong Kok: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/touring/popular/ta_popu_open.jhtml
Of course, you can always refer to the official Hong Kong Tourism Board's website - plenty of tips there: http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/index.jsp
Thanks again for all the help, I've got a pretty good-looking trip planned based in no small part on your advice. I did find a good website that has pretty good prices for hotels, www.agoda.com
Thanks!
Wow, that's a neat website. I'll recommend it to my friends in the future. Thanks a lot.
Just out of interest: which hotel did you pick in the end? Still in the Mong Kok area?
Yeah, I booked at the Prudential Hotel, which appears to be right on the border between Mong Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui, seems like a good place to be. I read about 100 positive reviews of the place on various travel forums, the MTR stop is actually in the basement of the hotel and supposedly you can easily walk to the markets. Which is good since I am traveling with two women who's primary goal in life is to die with the greatest number of shoes
Do you have any experience with this hotel?
Shamrock Hotel, which I recommended, is also directly above the same MTR station (Jordan). I don't know much about the hotel you've chosen, but the 100 reviews can't be wrong (unless they are fake, of course) so you should be fine.
Good. Thanks.
That's good! thanks. I used the sinohotel.com, booked the Shamrock Hotel.
Just a thread to see where are fellow xda forum members are at?
I'm in the USA! And right now I wish our dollar was more valuable then the euro so I could buy a Touch HD. . .lol
here here too
in a place called bournville....your know...
the place where cadburys chocolate was born
I'm in the same place as the op tito...Las Vegas, Nevada
Canada, Northern Ontario and is is damn cold here brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
Miami, Florida here.....hot as hell, as usual
Kocani aka Qualcomm city Macedonia. Only 2 hours and 26 minutes left for new year. Also here is too cold -10 °C
Hallo from Gorizia, deep Nord East in Italy,also here is to much cold for me... -6°!
In Southern California here; weather's great
Surabaya - Indonesia,.
Weather pretty screwed, sometime rain, sometime hot,. pff,.
Im in stourbridge, which is somewhere near the middle of England.
Weather here right now is freezing. Plus its half 2 in the morning. : /
Oh well
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UK here and right now you'd be better buying from us, given the state of the British Pound!!
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Hmmmmm, that would mean I would have to pay more?
I live in southern Sweden. That means cold but not so much snow in the winter.
Garches
West of PARIS, France.
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Probably one of the deans of this site.
you'll be surprised.
I'm posting the Last of the Summer Wine Country in the just outside of Huddersfield, UK.
Ta
Dave
Guadalajara Jalisco Mexico
-6 Hrs UMT, So I think im in the Occident side.
Always warm.. sometimes at 12 °C Heat comparison to others isnt it?
Always Drunk.. (well sometimes ) cause this is "The land of !!!!!!!!TEQUILA!!!!!!!!"
the top side I'd like to believe
Denmark flat windy rainy place with lots of fields
DaveShaw said:
I'm posting the Last of the Summer Wine Country in the just outside of Huddersfield, UK.
Ta
Dave
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+ Que PPC said:
-6 Hrs UMT, So I think im in the Occident side.
Always warm.. sometimes at 12 °C Heat comparison to others isnt it?
Always Drunk.. (well sometimes ) cause this is "The land of !!!!!!!!TEQUILA!!!!!!!!"
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MEXICO!!!!
i am from mumbai INDIA
"Scotland mountainous windy rainy place with lots of fields
Mike"
but you have wild nature around
things growing on their own and such
Ok,
It might sound odd but am curious. When you post an answer, post your reasons.
As far as I know Japan and Korea are technologically most advanced countries yet they are hard to migrate to. You need to learn a totally new language and the cost of living is formidable.
Estonia comes next. I know it's technologically advanced but I don't know anything else about it.
Last but not the least, US. It's not as advanced as Estonia or Japan/Korea but it's technologically advanced than most countries and it has a reasonable cost of living. However, immigration rules are strict.
Add your ideas.
UK? Services are cheaper tha us, and free hospitals etc And what do they have we dont ?
MacaronyMax said:
UK? Services are cheaper tha us, and free hospitals etc And what do they have we dont ?
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big roads?
Try Israel, it is technologically advanced, but you have to learn hebrew, or russian, you can do good with english but still need hebrew, they pay a lot for IT jobs, immigration is super easy if you are a jew (not sure how hard if you're not), you get to live call of duty if you go to gaza, however living is expensive there but and you pay more that 50% of your income as tax. also cheap health care and too many educated people
MacaronyMax said:
UK? Services are cheaper tha us, and free hospitals etc And what do they have we dont ?
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UK's cost of living is way higher than most other countries and UK is not that much tech savvy as US.
husam666 said:
big roads?
Try Israel, it is technologically advanced, but you have to learn hebrew, or russian, you can do good with english but still need hebrew, they pay a lot for IT jobs, immigration is super easy if you are a jew (not sure how hard if you're not), you get to live call of duty if you go to gaza, however living is expensive there but and you pay more that 50% of your income as tax. also cheap health care and too many educated people
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Israel is kind good I guess. But, as for me, I value my life more. I'm a Muslim. Israeli army would see a bullet through my head. lol
So let's go to USA
steph90 said:
So let's go to USA
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Like if it was so easy. lol.
I'm just wonder if there are little known countries that are easy to get in, have a decent quality of life with a touch of tech. Like for example, I didn't know Estonia existed till like last year when I saw the news about its internet infrastructure being attacked.
How is Estonia more advanced than any western country?
I got to agree that it's freaking hard to get toUS. I just got here last year, but worth it.
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nibras_reeza said:
Like if it was so easy. lol.
I'm just wonder if there are little known countries that are easy to get in, have a decent quality of life with a touch of tech. Like for example, I didn't know Estonia existed till like last year when I saw the news about its internet infrastructure being attacked.
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Technologically advanced. I heard that people don't even read news*papers* anymore in there. They read it online it appears. Plus, most Governmental affairs could also be handled online there it seems. Basically, you could live in Estonia without ever having to leave your home.
I haven't been there but it's called the technologically most advanced western nation for a reason I believe.
Here's a sample: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3673619.stm
Now, that was in 2004.
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Quoted the wrong item. This was for kytz who asked how is Estonia better.
nibras_reeza said:
Ok,
It might sound odd but am curious. When you post an answer, post your reasons.
As far as I know Japan and Korea are technologically most advanced countries yet they are hard to migrate to. You need to learn a totally new language and the cost of living is formidable.
Estonia comes next. I know it's technologically advanced but I don't know anything else about it.
Last but not the least, US. It's not as advanced as Estonia or Japan/Korea but it's technologically advanced than most countries and it has a reasonable cost of living. However, immigration rules are strict.
Add your ideas.
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1. Norway. They pay you to throw you into prison. From the pictures, Malaysians call it a four-star hotel.
2. Germany. Look at German engineering. Now look back at your mirror. You are nothing. Look at German engineering. This is perfection.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9551624.stm
Just been made, throws up some interesting games, i really wanted us to get France again so we could get revenge on them over the Thierry Henry handball which cheated us from taking part in last summers World Cup, from Ireland's group obviously Germany will be favorites to top the group and it'll most likely be between Ireland and Sweden for the 2nd spot but im confident we'll progress this time.
Our nearest neighbours England got a relatively easy draw too.
So who did your country get and what's the verdict?
Hello,
A a Colombian citizen I would like to know what you people think about my country
well I would say don't judge based on TV series as television tend to exaggerate things to gain audience
To be frank nothing really. Why would you even ask that? Each country in the world from Micro to Macro level is contributing to human lives.
Whenever someone reminds me of Colombia I always end up thinking of the Amazon & Colombian Rainforest
Doesn't Columbia have snow capped rocky mountains and is in South America. That's all I know/care about. But I live in Australia which is pretty far away.
I know a bit since there a lot colombians here in spain
Jesse72 said:
Doesn't Columbia have snow capped rocky mountains and is in South America. That's all I know/care about. But I live in Australia which is pretty far away.
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i will travel to your country next year
Pablo Escobar ; -)
I don’t know too much about your country. I only know about your football team and Shakira. James and Falcao are my favorite players.
Coffee
To be more precise, coffee plantations that produce crap, okay, good and really good coffee beans (something for everyone I guess).
Not much
But I could imagine the weathers real nice. Being the fact you guys are South America. Aint that like tropical climate are something. I personally would love that Weather year round. Where I'm at its cold about 6 months out of the year, kinda warm about 3 and then so-so for the other 3 months. This time of year is about Winter for us, but actually these last few days have been rather warm actually. Other than that Coffe, Shakira, Cocaine( could be Bolivia I'm thinking with that), and Nice weather are about what I think comes to mind when I think Colombia. I always thought they were warm over there. Didn't know they had snow capped mountains ( you learn something new everyday).
freestilesteve said:
But I could imagine the weathers real nice. Being the fact you guys are South America. Aint that like tropical climate are something. I personally would love that Weather year round. Where I'm at its cold about 6 months out of the year, kinda warm about 3 and then so-so for the other 3 months. This time of year is about Winter for us, but actually these last few days have been rather warm actually. Other than that Coffe, Shakira, Cocaine( could be Bolivia I'm thinking with that), and Nice weather are about what I think comes to mind when I think Colombia. I always thought they were warm over there. Didn't know they had snow capped mountains ( you learn something new everyday).
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Hello
Yes Have 2
Sierra nevada santa marta and Nevado del ruiz
Cocaine. Drug lords.
Than again I was born in Puerto Rico all I think of from there is Rum and lazy people.
Raised in the states. But everywhere has there stereotypes. I've heard it's a nice place.
Cool
Cool. Although I'd rather opt for the warmer parts. Don't really like the snow and the cold. got about three more months off this stuff left to go.
Braycel said:
Hello
Yes Have 2
Sierra nevada santa marta and Nevado del ruiz
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freestilesteve said:
Cool. Although I'd rather opt for the warmer parts. Don't really like the snow and the cold. got about three more months off this stuff left to go.
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Understand Here In Cucuta Temp Is Very Hot
even more of a reason for me to like it.
Love warm weather. I wish it could be like that all year here. I hate this cold part of the year here. Allergies, colds, flus and all that crap. I can't wait till these next three months fly by so it can warm up.
see on televisión is doing very cold in usa
Yup its that time of year over here.
Colombia, well i remember your national soccer team goalkeeper, it was a dude with a lot of hair . Ofcourse, Pablo Escobar and the well known coffee
The only thing I know about Columbia is that it's home to wicked drug lords that make billions and live in mansions and have pet tigers.
I would love to make a visit.. Can't judge something I havn't seen or felt.