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Stanley Market (赤柱)

After having our satisfying dim sum lunch, FL’s friend suggested to go to Stanley Market (赤柱). Frankly speaking, we didn’t plan to go to the Stanley market as it’s quite far away from town and we actually plan to go to some shopping center to shop. But since he kept saying Stanley market is worth to go (he stayed there for a week before he started work in HK), why not (it’s quite famous also mar).

We took the mini bus (small van) from the Central to the Stanley market. How long is the journey, it’s about half an hour or so (sorry, can’t really remember how long.. ). We used the octopus card to pay for the bus fare (can’t remember how much also, i think it’s HKD 17, i THINK.. :p). The bus is very clean and the air con is cool.

Mini Bus (小巴/van仔)

See the digit 54? It’s actually the speed of the bus, if the driver is speeding, you can actually complaint!! cool huh..

On our way to the ‘Chek Chu’, we passed by both ’sam shui wan’ 深水湾 and ‘qin shui wan’ 浅水湾. What’s the difference between these two places? One is for not so rich ppl and the other one is solely for rich ppl, ’sam shui wan’ a lot of outside ppl (the people there purposely take bus from town to go to the beach) where else the ‘qin shui wan’ is mainly for rich ppl (you can really see a lot nice cars there), the ppl who stayed there. According to our friend, a lot of famous firm star houses are in this area.

Nice sea view!

Is this sam shui wan or qin shui wan? I also dono, hehe..

The building with a whole!!

FL told me why this building is built with a hole in the middle. He said these ppl keep having problems when building this place so they decided to seek help from a feng shui sifu. This feng shui sifu said if they want to build the building, they must leave a hole in the middle so the dragon can go over. So there you go, a hole in the middle.. (also dono FL got bs or not.. hehe..)

Finally, we are here! This is the main street! A lot of foregners.

Stanley Market Road (市场道)

This is the famous stanley market? Not much ppl, not much things to see also.. not really worth the time to purposely come in here..

I’m actually quite disappointed with this place. There’s really nothing much to see or to shop. I also not sure why FL’s friend recommend this place to us. We’re basically done after half an hour and we decided to stop by and have a drink at McCafe (the mcDonald which sells only coffee but no burgers!).

If you asked me, is it worth to come, I shall say, if you got time, you can come, but if you don’t have much time, don’t come lar..

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