title Lan Kwai Fong Market, Hong Kong, China - 4th October 2006 intro After an aborted attempt to get a Chinese Visa in London fails because they don't mention on the website that same-day service closes at 11am, a plan is hatched to instead stop by in Hong Kong and do it from there. Luckily, this means that there's the best part of a whole day to roam around and re-visit some of the places previously encountered in 2001. As well as known places, there was also one picked at random off the English-Cantonese "please drive me here" leaflet that the hotel provided, but which turns out to be one of the more interesting parts of Central - Lan Kwai Fong. It's fairly early, and not many shops are open, but eventually Nosher happens upon one of Hong Kong's bustling street markets, and hangs out for a while as the crowds build up. imgp7447 Shopkeepers set up imgp7449 Stalls under the elevated walkways imgp7450 Some meat products are pushed around imgp7451 A portly woman looks in to a shop doorway imgp7452 Market streets imgp7454 Neon lights and vegetable stalls imgp7457 The crowds are out early imgp7458 An ad-hoc awning is lifted into place imgp7462 The teeming streets imgp7464 Meat is prepared in an open-air butchers imgp7466 Yiu Fat Seafood imgp7468 More people imgp7470 Two friends meet imgp7471 A plastic-covered supermarket imgp7476 Ice water is tipped out onto the street imgp7479 Crates of chilled sea food imgp7480 Inside the butcher's imgp7482 Bits of bloody fish, and dishes of things imgp7486 More seafood preparation imgp7487 There's a queue at the rib shack imgp7489 An old woman points at fish and shouts imgp7493 The fishmonger imgp7495 Silver fish imgp7498 The Let's Go Frozen Meat Supermarket imgp7499 There are open tanks of writhing fish imgp7501 A fruit stall imgp7502 Inside one of the many crowded and narrow shops imgp7503 Delivery van on a side street imgp7505 A street hemmed in by densely-packed tower blocks imgp7506 Carrots in a basket imgp7507 A view down the plants-and-vegetables street imgp7509 Some dude pushes a trolley laden with oil imgp7511 Walking around the market imgp7512 The tin dude reads the newspaper imgp7514 An old dude struggles up a hill imgp7516 More market mysteries imgp7517 A cat stretches, up on a balcony imgp7519 A final vegetable stall