1. Lung, student.
Ocean Park is
bigger and cheaper.
2. Shella, tourist. Ocean Park. Because it is a place for adults. Disneyland is for small kids.
3. Peter, builder. Ocean Park. Because it has a greater variety of shows, including dolphin shows.
4. Pinky,
Disneyland. Because I have already been to Ocean Park.
5. Kise, student. Ocean Park. I still have more things to do in Ocean Park. I didn’t play enough there last time.
The Find: Metal box
Final Price: $6
Where found: HK Museum of Coastal Defence gift store The gift store at the HK Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan is an interesting place which offers up Swiss Army knives, military looking watches and camouflaged items for sale. Lest we forget though, it is a branch museum of the HK Museum of History. Accordingly, nestled among the more military themed offerings in its gift shop is this thoroughly civilian object that looks to have been originally brought out to coincide with the mother institution’s playing host to a special exhibition on Hong Kong’s Popular Entertainment.
For those of you who can recall a time in your life when you’d go and rent/buy some comics that you would then happily sit down anywhere to read, the scene pictured on the cover of this metal container – whose size and shape makes it well suited to be a pencil case – should send you happily strolling down Memory Lane. Others like me have to cast around for other associated memories or visual associations. (And should you wonder, the first thought that came to this film fanatic’s mind when I saw this bargain-priced find was a scene from The Kid, a 1950 Hong Kong movie which has Bruce Lee playing an orphan boy who, among other things, runs a make-shift stall that rents comics!)
It’s amazing to see how hard the government has tried to turn every corner of our city into a tourist attraction. Sham Shui Po, recognized as the poorest district with the highest ratio of elderly in Hong Kong, is a case in point. The infamous Apliu Street is where people, mostly men, look for their favourite toys – all sorts of electrical appliances including old radios, televisions and mobile phones. It is also a treasure trove for movie set designers or art directors to scrabble around in for props – be it an antique rice cooker as in Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love or second-hand LPs in those retro soap operas on TV. And Cheung Sha Wan Fashion Street is HK’s own Champs-Elysées or Fifth Avenue – only 100 times cheaper. Fakes and substandard goods (the kind we export to other countries) are all here in Sham Shui Po where we have everything for both sexes. Still, for a spot of genuine history, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, built in the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220), stands in contrast to the area’s general seediness.
It’s amazing to see how hard the government has tried to turn every corner of our city into a tourist attraction. Sham Shui Po, recognized as the poorest district with the highest ratio of elderly in Hong Kong, is a case in point. The infamous Apliu Street is where people, mostly men, look for their favourite toys – all sorts of electrical appliances including old radios, televisions and mobile phones. It is also a treasure trove for movie set designers or art directors to scrabble around in for props – be it an antique rice cooker as in Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love or second-hand LPs in those retro soap operas on TV. And Cheung Sha Wan Fashion Street is HK’s own Champs-Elysées or Fifth Avenue – only 100 times cheaper. Fakes and substandard goods (the kind we export to other countries) are all here in Sham Shui Po where we have everything for both sexes. Still, for a spot of genuine history, the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, built in the Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25-220), stands in contrast to the area’s general seediness. 
