Goldfish Market

We started off Boxing Day right by eating some super delicious tarts from the bakery across the street. 

The first thing we had planned was to go see the Goldfish Market because it is supposed to be a cool thing to see.  To get there we had to of course take the super convenient MTR. Wanna see what the subway system here looks like? 

This is a meer pebble in a sea of never ending hallways filled with moving walkways.   It's like a whole city under there.  And to the side there are tons of little tiny shops.  Some are fashion boutiques, some are 711.  Who knows.  

Shortly after emerging from the subway we stumbled across this shop:

Obviously, we had to go inside.   If you think the amount of inventory in this window is nuts, just hold your amazement until the actual store interior:

This is not a back storage closet that we snuck into, this is the ACTUAL STORE.  What?  How on earth do they keep track of inventory? How do people find what they are shopping for?   HOW DO PEOPLE WALK THROUGH THAT "WALKWAY"???  

After making some most excellent purchases we were on the way to the Goldfish Market.

The Goldfish Market is an entire street of little shops like this.  Not just fish stores.  Aquarium supplies, bunnies, puppies, kitties, random pet supplies, aquarium plants, basically this place was "Pet Store Street."   

My favorite thing here was the walls of bagged fish:

Shop after shop like this.   People holding fish bags in their hands and haggling a better price, it was madness.

We some some other weird things at the market:

Tub O' Albino Frogs, for all your Albino Frogs needs.   Also Tub O' Tiny Turtles, because heath codes aren't really a thing here.   

There were many tanks and displays on the street likes this with puppies, kittens, bunnies and other fluffy critters so people will be like AWW ADORABLE and then go in the shop.  Most of these displays had "no photo" signs up but apparently no one cares about the tortoises.  

After being fished out we headed back to the MTR to go to Central (downtown).  We popped out in some super fancy mall (Armani Junior and Gucci Baby are things that exist, people, I learned this)  which we immediately wanted to escape because seriously, Gucci Baby?   

There are many places in Central where you cross the street via an elevated walkway like above.  This particular one is crazy because there were several right by each out due to the all the offices and malls being connected by them.  They love making little hamster trails for themselves.