Woke up this morning, turned on the TV, and had to laugh. They had a Korean TV station called Arirang broadcasting computer games.
Today's objective was to get lots of network cables and Jim from the Hong Kong office suggested I go to Sham Shui Po.
Sham Shui Po is home to the biggest computer market in Hong Kong, a place called the Golden Computer Arcade.
So I walked about ten minutes north to a the Tsuen Wan MTR train station to catch my first train.
At the station, I found myself some lunch at a take-away restaurant called Rice.
It was a strange roll with rice on the outside, and half meat and half spices on the inside.
Bought an Octopus card, which is a stored value card that you have to place on or near an electronic reader, and charged it up with 100 HKD. It's a bit like the Myki in Melbourne, except that it works. :-)
At Tsuen Wan station, there is only one line: the Tsuen Wan line, which goes towards Hong Kong Central, so I headed down the stairs to the platform.
Fortunately Sham Shui Po was 15 minutes away on the same train line as Tsuen Wan, so it was a great introduction to the train system.
All the train announcements were in Cantonese and English (and I've since discovered, Mandarin as well), so it was very easy.
Arrived in Sham Shui Po, put my Octopus card on the reader, which automatically deducted the fare (about 7 HKD/1.40 AUD), and headed up the stairs.
Circled the station trying to find the arcade, which I understood was quite close to the station.
It was pretty obvious when I got to the right spot!
Inside, it's enormous. I think there were at least three floors of hundreds of small computer shops.
Near the start, I bought an 8 GB USB memory stick for 105 HKD/21 AUD, then kept walking along looking for network cables.
Just when I was worried I wouldn't find the specific ones I needed, I found a shop called Intellitech, which had everything imaginable. Red, blue, yellow, green, gray, white, black, cat5e, cat6, long, short, and a few different reputable brands to choose from!
680 HKD/136 AUD later, and I was greatly relieved!
Finished having a look around the arcade, then headed home.
Also discovered that I had been pronouncing Tsuen Wan wrongly. When they announced the station name in Cantonese, they said it Choon Wahn. Definitely need to learn some Cantonese and figure out their romanization (the way they write Cantonese with English/Latin letters).
Computer games on TV
Today's objective was to get lots of network cables and Jim from the Hong Kong office suggested I go to Sham Shui Po.
Sham Shui Po is home to the biggest computer market in Hong Kong, a place called the Golden Computer Arcade.
So I walked about ten minutes north to a the Tsuen Wan MTR train station to catch my first train.
At the station, I found myself some lunch at a take-away restaurant called Rice.
It was a strange roll with rice on the outside, and half meat and half spices on the inside.
All the goodies from "Rice": a rice roll and an apricot soy drink
A rice, beef, pork, and spice roll from "Rice"
Bought an Octopus card, which is a stored value card that you have to place on or near an electronic reader, and charged it up with 100 HKD. It's a bit like the Myki in Melbourne, except that it works. :-)
At Tsuen Wan station, there is only one line: the Tsuen Wan line, which goes towards Hong Kong Central, so I headed down the stairs to the platform.
Fortunately Sham Shui Po was 15 minutes away on the same train line as Tsuen Wan, so it was a great introduction to the train system.
Map of the Tsuen Wan line
All the train announcements were in Cantonese and English (and I've since discovered, Mandarin as well), so it was very easy.
Inside the train
Arrived in Sham Shui Po, put my Octopus card on the reader, which automatically deducted the fare (about 7 HKD/1.40 AUD), and headed up the stairs.
Circled the station trying to find the arcade, which I understood was quite close to the station.
It was pretty obvious when I got to the right spot!
The start of the Golden Computer Arcade
Inside, it's enormous. I think there were at least three floors of hundreds of small computer shops.
Inside the arcade
Near the start, I bought an 8 GB USB memory stick for 105 HKD/21 AUD, then kept walking along looking for network cables.
Just when I was worried I wouldn't find the specific ones I needed, I found a shop called Intellitech, which had everything imaginable. Red, blue, yellow, green, gray, white, black, cat5e, cat6, long, short, and a few different reputable brands to choose from!
680 HKD/136 AUD later, and I was greatly relieved!
All the cables at Intellitech
Finished having a look around the arcade, then headed home.
Also discovered that I had been pronouncing Tsuen Wan wrongly. When they announced the station name in Cantonese, they said it Choon Wahn. Definitely need to learn some Cantonese and figure out their romanization (the way they write Cantonese with English/Latin letters).
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