In Hong Kong, shopping is very organized. There are big malls full of everything, but stores are organized into boutiques. A drug store has a Max Factor boutique with its own counter and staff. In the Lane Crawford department store, there is an Aveda boutique. Only tester samples are out for customers. If you want to buy something, a staff person will go get it for you. This may take a while, so in the better shops (like the Aveda boutique at Lane Crawford) you are offered a cup of tea while you wait. Yes, I know this from pleasant experience.
Outside of the malls, shopping is organized into districts and streets. There is the line of jewelry vendors on Nathan Road, where you waddle along with the crowds as men ask, "copy fake handbag watch?" There is the street of goldfish shops. One of the best is Flower Market Road.
As on all the best street shopping streets, the sidewalks are jammed with people.
And the shop aisles are jammed with people...
Another shopping challenge. These orchids are only let's see, $100 Hong Kong dollars divided by 3 divided by 7.78 to convert to US dollars...
I love this shop name.
One little bit of Cantonese that I have learned is that sum means heart. So these are are not just some flowers. These are heart flowers, flowers for the heart, maybe flowers from the heart. And dim sum is heart's delight, dumplings that touch the heart. And I think choy means leaf. That's it. The end of my lesson in Cantonese.
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