Back in the blissful summer days of SHYC, when I was a much more scrawny, bronzed little thing (ah the good old days), my friends and I would walk down to the harbor to the Quarter Deck to buy beads and make bracelets or necklaces (any SHYC girls reading this out there?). I moved on from that hobby (mostly due to lack talent and patience), but like most girls I know, have always loved bead stores for their Willy Wonka-like atmospheres. Sham Shui Po, in Kowloon, is home to dozens of these stores. This is one of my favorite areas to walk around in in Hong Kong. That I was able to write about it for Timeout HK’s Best of 2008 year-end issue was added fun.
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