Station 17- Langham Place (Mong Kok)

Hey, Ladies & Gentlemen! Today I am going to introduce a trendy place for you! It’s Langham Place Shopping Mall which is located in the very heart of Mong Kok. Comprising of an area of up to 600,000 square feet, the mall gathers a plethora of spending hot spots, including a myriad of international and local fashion brands such as MUJI, NIKE, H&M, etc. Also, it is opening in long hours and it can access to the area’s one directly and only 5 star hotel- The Langham Place Hotel.

Also, suspended on top of the Grand Atrium, spanning across the entire length of the mall is one of the

Langham Place’s most popular attractions: The Digital Sky. There are some rolling clouds that showed on the screen which we have never seen it in Hong Kong. A drama from TVB in long time ago that was taken by Langham Place. So it is very famous for the couples to go there also!

There are divided into 16 floors including the food court, clothes, cosmetics shops, shoes which are many shops there with famous brand name. The customers especially for the tourists, they can spend all day here for shopping. Moreover, a promotion for the tourists in Langham Place, if the tourists present the travel document to their Customer Service Ambassador, the tourists will receive a welcome gift card plus the “LP Card for Tourists ” to enjoy instant discounts and exclusive offers at more then 70 retail outlets of the mall.

Registration: L4 Customer Service Center

Service Hours: 11am-11pm

Tel: (852) 35202800

 For the coming X’mas, Lamgham place is setting up some decoration for the X’mas celebration. The theme of the decoration is London with Hello Kitty. Hey, Ladies! What are you waiting for??? I went there already; it was so amazing and beautiful!!!! Being a Hello Kitty’s Fans, dun want! Just do it with your beloved one. You must get some surprised from this event!

Langham Place is turning into the hometown of HELLO KITTY this Christmas!

Come and join HELLO KITTY to tour major landmarks of London

 including the Big Ben, London Eye, The Langham, London, Millennium Dome and many more.

11:00-23:00

(extended to 01:00 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays)
Location: L4 Atrium

By Didi*

Station 16 - SINO CENTRE[Mong Kok]

Hi, everyone! Wanted to find some enterinament? To book tickets to go to a concert in Japan?
This time I would like to take you back to Mong Kok Again!
Yes! Mong kok! I know some of my groupmates had alreadly tells you something about Mong Kok, but other then buying fashionable clothes and dressing accessories. I would like to introduce things that your can buy home for entertainment and share with your friends!

SINO CENTER is located in 582-592 Nathan Road, Mong Kok. This shopping center occupied four levels of the building. And each level of this shopping center have over 10 different kinds of small shops located there.A very popular place for shopping in Hong Kong for CDs, DVDs,any stuff related to comics and games, magazines and other things from Japan, photos of Asia popular singer & actor, special style of decorations, some hand made & needlework stuff and book a bungalow for a few days vocation in Sai Kung or Tai Po . Every weekend the whole shopping center is always full of people walking and looking around to find what they are intereded.

As I have mension above in the SINO CENTER you can buy CDs, & DVDs.You can find them on the basement level and on level 1.
Have you ever wonder why such a lot of people went there to buy CDs, & DVDs but "NOT" HMV?
Surely this is because the CDs, & DVDs are at a relatively low price. But that's not all, there are a lot of second hand CDs, & DVDs stores there, which you may be able to find some CDs or DVDs that will not be in big stores like HMV anymore, some very valuable CDs & DVDs, just up to you to explore!Who knows what you will find? What's more you can also make advance orders for  limited editions CDs & DVDs!

Looking for ways to book tickets for concerts in Japan? In the SINO CENTER there are stores that buy things form Japan for you on your behalf! All you have to do is to find out what you want from the internet and give them the infomation of what you want!They can help you to bid them or order them and provided you with transportation back to Hong Kong! You can find two of this store in the basement level and one on the second level.

You can also find any stuff related to comics and games here in the SINO CENTER!

Comics stores selling comics published by Hong Kong and Tai Wan , which is up to $3 to $5 dallors cheaper than those you bought from the street newspaper stores! Also there are a lot of games stores selling PSP,PS2,PS3,NDS,Wii, games and magazine that imported from Japan and Tai Wan. There are also stores selling animate figures and related things that you can't find anywhere, stores will also take advance orders for animate figures and things that you want! You can find them on level 2 & 3.

And you can find photos of Asia popular singer & actor and bungalow booking on level 1. Latest photos of famous Asia popular singer & actor, the photos of the latest event they attend , promotion & advertisment photo,cover photos of magazine, even those you haven't seen before.

Last but not the least are the special style of decorations, some hand made & needlework stuff. You can find them on level 2. Special style of decorations, some hand made & needlework stuffcan be bought here, like old street lamps, old style clocks, extra large size rubber and lighter, big cute cushion in different size and shapes, hand made metal decorations and a shop selling needlework product and lessons will be provide to those interesed customers.

And Now you know where to buy yourself  CDs, comics and some hand made stuff to entertain yourself, have DVDs to watch with your families and friends! Also you find somethings to decorate you house!

Let's have a nice week to spend with your families and friends while shopping in Hong Kong!


Warm reminder:
1.  Go there after 13:30!!!! Very Important!!! All shops open in the afternoon!!!
2. As there are some similar shops in the centre, try to walk around and compare the price

By Alice

Station 15- Maritime Square(Tsing Yi)

Hey! Ladies & Gentlemen! It’s me again! Today I am going to take you into another shopping paradise! It is Maritime Square in Tsing Yi!

Maritime Square is the first shopping mall in Hong Kong adopting ocean and navigation as the design there. Occupying a total of 500,000 square feet, the mall houses a superior range of shops and restaurants such as Clinique, Bank, Bossini. It’s very convenience for the local people and the tourist.

Maritime Square is right at MTR Tsing Yi Station. And it’s near the Hong Kong Airport. It can be arrived to airport within 15mins via Airport Express Line and MTR Tung Chung Line. It is not only just one station away from the Hong Kong Airport but also adjacent to the hottest tourist spots in Lantau Island including Ngong Ping 360.

Also, It have some promotions as the below poster! Pls have a look!

And it provide some customer services such as Locker Hire for the tourists, if u are shopping with many packages before you left, you can put the stuffs to your locker. Any details, you can contact to the customer service counter located at the ground floor. Moreover, there are a Chinses House Tea which located at the groung floor, the special thing of the tea house is its build up by a SHIP! so it is a  specially tea house and you can take a photo as you want!


Hope all of you will be enjoy shopping in Maritime Square!

Have a brief look in Maritime Square*

By Didi*

Station 14: Where to shop hand made goods in Hong Kong?

Hello, fellowers! As we all know, Hong Kong is not only known for the worldwide famous brand product, but also the hand made goods. If you are reaching for some, here is what you need to know :)

Strolling along the streets on Hong Kong Island, pedestrians hardly notice that in the quiet corners are the tiny workplaces of two distinguished craftsmen, striving for a living in the fast-changing city.
Crammed into a tiny 50-square-foot green booths on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wan, a middle-aged woman is carefully stitching and hammering a leather shoe with her skilful hands.

Only a few streets away from the shoemaker, on Peel Street, Central, is the tiny umbrella workshop of Ho Hung-hei. Every morning Ho, 81, travels to the workshop from his home in Kowloon.

 

 

 

 

“Repairing umbrellas is my greatest interest in life,” says Ho, who has been operating the shop since 1974, earning a living to bring up his nine sons and daughters.

The craftsman has designed, stitched and fixed more umbrellas than he could ever count. “This old shop is where my precious memories are stored,” Ho says as he recalls the most unforgettable experience in his life -- breaking the Guinness World Record in 1994 by making the world’s most expensive umbrella and selling it to an Englishman for £167 (HK2,088).

“The Englishman could find no one to work out his design and he finally sent me a box of ox skin from England for making the umbrella,” he says proudly.

So anymore hand made goods you need? Good luck with exploring it in Hong Kong.

 

By Cindy

Station 13 Kowloon Bay

Happy Halloween to everyone!
Today I would like to introduce you to Kowloon Bay!!!

This time I will take you to two places in Kowloon Bay!

The first one is the Telford Plaza.

Tellford Plaza, an 83,000 sq m shopping centre located at the heart of Kowloon East, is famous for its broad selections on stylish clothing and mouth-watering cuisines

 There are Six distinctive theme boulevards:

1.      Telecom Walk

2.      Sunshine Boulevard

3.       Ginseng Alley

4.        Telford Boulevard

5.       Electronic Zone and,

6.       Travel Expo

Surely you will find something you want and it is a perfect place for shopping and leisure!

There are free parking, and a Telford Plaza Privilege Program

Where they offer special shopping privilege to MTR Malls Privilege Card Holders and other organizations listed on the picture below:

For something extra, they are putting up some decorations of autumn and harvest!
Surely you won’t miss out the beautiful maple leaves and yummy fruits in autumn!

And today is Halloween so that the next place we go are something about that!

The second place is Mega Box!

It is also in Kowloon Bay, with Hong Kong’s largest single-storey book city, sports city, electrical/ electronic centre and the biggest collection of home improvement stores.

Although it is quite far away from the MTR station, a free frequent shuttle bus services are available to and from Kowloon Bay MTR station to Mega Box.

And for this Halloween, Mega Box is doing a really attractive cross over!
Halloween cross over with Horoscopes!!!!

 
Let’s go shopping and take photo with them!
And have a Happy Halloween while shopping in Hong Kong!

Warm Reminder:

Mega Box has been design for parents to bring their children there! There are a big book shop for parents to bring their kids there to look for story books. A level full of children related product, like clothes & toys!

By Alice

Station 12 Cheung Chau



Picture of Central Pier



Cheung Chau is a small island 10 km southwest of Hong Kong Island. You can take the ferry in Central Pier 5 to go to Cheung Chau. I like shopping in Cheung Chau, because you can left busy district to go to shopping more relax.

Slippers of Cheung Chau have thier own styles
and attract many tourists to buy it

There are a lot of souvenirs which you can buy. I admire the souvenirs which are the slippers of Cheung Chau. It has their own characteristic and you can not buy it on the other districts in Hong Kong. Of course, there are also many products which is worth to buy, such as accessories, clothes or handwork product.

New souvenir of Tai Ping Ching Chiu
in 2009

Tai Ping Ching Chiu is a Chinese cultural festival in Cheung Chau. In this festival, Cheung Chau will be livelily and will have many performances in there. And you can buy some souvenirs of Tai Ping Ching Chiu which sell only on this festival and unique. Therefore, if you have time, I will suggest you go to Tai Ping Ching Chiu in that time.

Bun Scrambling Competition
in Tai Ping Ching Chiu

Tips for shopping

Sometimes many people go to shopping in order to materialism, but I think that you can enjoy your life and experience the culture through shopping, such as shopping in Cheung Chau.

I hope all of you also can enjoy the shopping time in Hong Kong!

by Oscar

Station 11 - Tsuen Wan (Tsuen Wan Plaza)

Hey, Ladies and Gentlemen! Today I am going to take you to Tsuen Wan Plaza,

Tsuen Wan Plaza is the centre of Tsuen Wan. The accessibility in Tsuen Wan is high. There is a multi-functional Plaza such as the huge supermarket-JUSCO, and many kinds of restaurants there. It’s divided into 6 floor which are selling the clothes, restaurant, supermarket and necessity, etc. Also, there has a ReallD cinema which is the most technological the first cinema that came to Hong Kong. For the transportation, it’s near West rail MTR line, and it has a ferry to go to Noah’s Ark and Ma Wan Park, it’s very convenience for the tourist to go to Tsuen Wan Plaza before go to the Noah’s Ark.

There are providing shuttle bus service between Tsing Yi and Tsuen Wan Plaza (20mins per each) but at least you must go for shopping in Tsuen Wan Plaza that the amount of receipt need to over HKD$50, then you can go to the customer service counter and take for one boarding pass.

 

Moreover, there is a JUSCO Japanese Food Fair on 18-29/10 for celebrating the Halloween Festival which is located in L1 Promotion Area. Hey, Ladies and gentlemen, what are you waiting for? Hurry up! Go to Tsuen Wan Plaza and shop for something for your HALLOWEEN!!!

Reference: http://www.tsuenwanplaza.com.hk/index.htm

By Didi*