Tai Nan Street
The traditionally working-class neighbourhood of Sham Shui Po has really seen a revival in recent years, with various indie cafés and experimental art concepts cropping up to the delight of Hong Kong’s hipster crowd. Most people already know about the treasure trove of electronics you can find in Golden Computer Centre and Apliu Street, so head south instead to the energised and buzzing area near Tai Nan Street and Ki Lung Street.
Scattered in between old garages and hardware stores, you’ll find plenty of leather workshops and speciality stores—for example, we spent an inordinate amount of time in Muze Pens, which stocks fountain pens sourced globally and a dizzying array of ink. Vinyl record lovers will definitely need to pay a visit to Vinyl Hero, White Noise Records, and Tai Nan Records—all amazing stores that serve to fuel our addiction to analogue music.
We also love trawling through the shelves of lifestyle stores such as quirky homeware shop Foreforehead, vintage store Shop Little Two (where we once found an adorable mini accordion in good working condition!), Midway Shop for their clean and minimalistic Japanese-inspired ceramics and home products, and Terra House, with their beautiful taxidermy pieces of butterflies and other insects alongside a cute (and very much alive) shop cat.