Shopping: Causeway Bay in Hong Kong is Wasteland

Hong Kong shopping is the most amazing part if going to a financial capital in Asia because boutiques and pop up stores are scattered in the streets from low-end to high-end brands.

Causeway Bay is my wasteland part in Hong Kong, almost everything can be found there, except H&M. 

If you're a Marc by Marc Jacobs addict like me, go to Causeway Bay because they have the special items.

Special Items section, see the rain boots at the right corner? I bought one

How to go: From MTR, find the exit to Fashion Walk. Turn left, then once you saw Vivienne Westwood store, turn right. The heaven is located in front of Adidas Original store.

IKEA -- almost everything you need for your house, condominium pad, or office supplies are basically available in IKEA. This is a wasteland to people who ♥ to renovate, re-design, or conceptualizing their space in a much lesser cost than Italian furniture houses.

There are three IKEA stores (as far as I know) in Hong Kong; Megabox in Kowloon, Sha Tin, and Causeway Bay (picture below). The best place is the Megabox branch since they have the restaurant there.

Open from 10:30 am.

Don't leave IKEA without eating their famous meatballs... 

I really want this chair...hesitant to buy because of airport tax and I flew via budget airline

How to go: 

Causeway Bay -- Ride MTR to Causeway Bay and exit to Fashion Walk/Park Lane Hotel. It is located at the basement of The Park Lane Hotel.

Times Square -- This is a wasteland to shoppers who likes high-end and luxury brands. You will find brands such as; Salvatore Ferregamo, Burberry, Gucci, Bottega Veneta, etc. You can also find medium-end brands such as ZARA, Adidas, Massimo Dutti, etc. And you can also find here the wasteland for stationery lovers... CITY SUPER!!

Oh forgot to mention that luxury department store, Lane Crawford is occupying three or more floors of the building... I instantly fell in ♥ with.

Inside Times Square, promotion for Harry Potter movie..Hogwarts Market

Hong Kong Shopping Part 2

IKEA --

Photo from Google

IKEA! IKEA! IKEA! Fun, modern, affordable, high quality, and great designs, words I can only think to describe if I see or hear IKEA. If God will give me an opportunity to live in HK, I'll probably buy my furniture and kitchen stuff in IKEA. Where can you find modern and chic bed room, kitchen, living room, and even baby stuff from HK$10 and up? Only in IKEA!! I went to Causeway bay branch near the Fashion Walk building. I heard there's a new IKEA store in mega-box. Go na!

City Gate Outlet Mall --

City Gate Outlet Mall

Located outside the Tung Chung Station and before the entrance of the Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car. From Giordano to Burberry store, various brands are available in this outlet mall. Each outlet store sells up to 70% off from last season items. Few brands that caught my eyes were Nike, Puma, Mango, A/X, DKNY, Calvin Klein Jeans, Ralph Lauren, Bally, Cerruti, Lancel, CK underwear, The Body Shop, Burberry, Swatch, and Kate Spade. Oh speaking of Kate Spade, the bags are mark down up to 80% off. If your exhausted from walking, you can take a break and eat in Food Republic, we ate the Hainanese Chicken Rice there after the walkathon from Ngong Ping Village. I bought a watch in Swatch for HK$301 (PH 1800 if converted to peso). I want to go back and shop in Burberry because I saw good buys there.

Mongkok Night Market --

Mongkok Night Market

Are you looking for souvenirs, imitations from high-end brands, electronic stuff, laptop, cellphone, shoes, and etc that are very affordable? Mongkok night market is the right place to be. Although I didn't explore much the flea market because of an incident that I decided to shop in Langham Place and other retail brands scattered in Mongkok like Cotton On (which I absolutely like), Apple Store (clothing retail brand), H&M, Giordano Concept, Esprit, Giordano, IT outlet, and etc.

SOGO Department Store --

SOGO is a retail giant Japanese department store. There are two branches in Hong Kong, Causeway Bay which has 15 floors (WOW!!!) and Tsim Sha Tsui, both have access in MTR (Hong Kong train). SOGO sells various brands from athletic to high-end brands. If your lucky enough, you'll spot discounted items up to 70% off like Longchamps, North Face, and etc.

Hong Kong Part 3

Day 5 --

Woke up early and went to Ocean Park, we took MTR to Admiralty, then Bus 629 to OP (prepare HKD10.60 for the bus, but if you have the octopus card then swipe it!). We stayed and enjoyed the park until it closed around 6:00 pm (not recommended Ocean Park during holidays and weekends...kakaSTRESS DRILLON!). After OP, we went to Mongkok night market for shopping and ate street foods (YUMMYNESS!). We left Mongkok past mid-night (NGARAG NA PO KAMI!!!) and headed back to Taisan to rest.

Day 6 -- 

It was our last day in Hong Kong and we're scheduled to go to Nan Lian Gardens in the morning but decided as a free day! (YAY for me..means more shopping time!). We left the hostel past 10:00 am, since most of the shops in Hong Kong opens late. When we got to Causeway bay, I decided to separate from them to find my mission (Marc by Marc Jacobs and IKEA..more YAY!!). I went back to our hostel with my lunch (Grilled Chicken from McDonald's...CRAVING!!!!), IKEA stuff, and my new MJ tote bag. Since our ETD was 7:00 pm, we decided to chill-out for a bit. We checked-out Taisan and went straight to Hong Kong International Airport via Airport Express (rode free shuttle of airport express to kowloon in Kimberly road). When we arrived in HKIA, we strolled a bit and ate our dinner there. AGAIN, we almost missed our flight even though we were early....HK airport was huge! they even had a train!....We left Hong Kong past 7:00 pm and arrived Manila (NAY!) past 9:00 pm.