Kowloon shopping
I remember reading this article in Wired 10 years ago. And since then my imagination was full of all the wonders of pirate software and computer goods I would find at the Golden Arcade Shopping Plaza. In reality, years later it was just a mostly regular shopping mall like anywhere else there. We must have really looked lost, since a very nice woman came up to us and asked us if we needed help finding someplace, and pointed us in the right direction. There were a few stores with pirate software, but not that many. I WISH I could have had my camera out to take a picture of the fantastic signs in one of the pirate booths. Over the rack of photoshop and game copies for HK$5 the sign says basically “Do not steal these discs, police will be called” Oh, the irony! I looked all over for the rip-off versions of Final Fantasy 7 and Titanic for NES, but I couldn’t find them anywhere.
After the arcade, we grabbed some fantastic pork and berry buns from this store:
A seriously drunk guy, who was double-handing Smirnoff Ice sat down and stared at us, and gave us a napkin. So we left.
Note on Hong Kong:
Restaurants do not give out paper napkins. Some places will sell you a little package of tissues. So if you go, hoarde any napkins you can in your bag.