Shanghai Street

Today I had very little to do to prepare for our big move to the UK.  I decided to go to one of the places in Hong Kong that I discovered recently and always enjoy to get some pictures: Shanghai Street in Yau Ma Tei, which is just filled with all kinds of kitchen equipment for home and businesses.

I didn't technically discover it on my own but I have known about this street since we moved to Hong Kong three years ago.  I just never got around to visiting it.  Occasionally I would pass it in a bus or someone would mention it, but still I never went.  It was sort of like a foreign country, if I remembered it existed I really wanted to go, but usually when I had free time I had already forgotten I wanted to visit.

While my mother was here we did visit mainly because she and my father run a BBQ restaurant in Tennessee and she wanted to see the street filled with kitchen supplies.  I love kitchen supplies and to some degree I am glad I had not visited Shanghai Street earlier - I would have bought everything!

Bamboo baskets for steaming dumplings and buns.

Cats in the Cake shop 

Clay pots in all shapes and sizes, plus you can get your uniforms here too!

Because every shop in HK needs an Alter, there is an Alter Shop!

Cleavers, Cleavers - get your Cleavers here!
I totally want one of these but my husband says I will chop my hands off.

General kitchen supplies
Look at the size of those pots!

Woks of all sizes

I love cake too

More woks, but hanging this time.
By the way - the smallest Wok here is still too big for a home kitchen
The largest one is really massive!

Cutting boards - more like cutting tree stumps.

And lastly - today I went shopping at the Ladies Market in Mong Kok.  It was fun and I will miss some aspects of haggling and wandering down small allies in search of treasure.  All in all, though, I miss shopping in England and the US mainly because the clothing fits me!

If I have any more time before we leave I plan on putting some more pictures of general life in Hong Kong on here as well.  

All photos (except the first one of Shanghai St sign) copyright Me 2013.