Posted by: keyenfarrell on: March 24, 2010
On my last day in Hong Kong, I paid a visit to the Chungking Mansions. Contrary to the name, there is nothing luxe about the Chungking Mansions. Situated across the harbor in Kownloon, it’s a bustling marketplace selling everything in Hong Kong that can’t be eaten. Want a new computer? Why buy a fancy Lenovo when you can hire a dude waiting outside who will buy a motherboard, disk drive and other parts, and assemble your computer. It even comes with a complementary ten-minute warranty. If the religion of Hong Kong is commerce, the Mansions are its temple. It’s a labyrinth of shops housed in an enormous and frighteningly dilapidated building. This place is the worst nightmare for sufferers of even mild claustrophobia and contains enough combustibles to make the Hindenburg look up-to-code.
