The Temple Street Night Market is a famous market in Hong Kong where you can get fake merchandise and other junk and bargain with the shopkeepers for even better deals. When I was there, I couldn’t help thinking of the quote from the Simpsons episode “Kamp Krusty” in which Jimbo is the slave driver for the campers and demands, “Come on, wimps! These fake Gucci wallets have to be on the streets of Hong Kong by Friday!” Well, here I was on the streets of Hong Kong looking at fake Gucci wallets. Top notch. The market runs down the middle of the street (the traffic is blocked off between 4 and 11pm) and shopkeepers setup along each side with a narrow pathway in the middle. Of course, it was jam packed. In truth, the market wasn’t that exciting because this famous market simply can’t compete with Luo Hu and Dong Men in Shenzhen, the knock-off capital of the world. And don’t even think of paying $5 US for a DVD in Hong Kong, are you crazy? The Temple Street vendors were friendly and low-pressure. Luo Hu, as you know by now if you’ve followed this blog, is anything but. Lou Hu is about 10 times the size of Temple Street. Dong Men is about 100 times the size.

This isn’t the Temple Street Night Market, but it’s virtually identical to this one (elsewhere in Hong Kong during the day):