I have never seen such a shop anywhere else in the world. It is a tailoring shop in the market building. Mostly black-robes cladded Middle Eastern women patronizing these shops. These shops and other garment shops occupy the 2nd floor of the market building. The first floor has mostly shops selling claypots and brooms. The top floor is an aircon hawker center, sort of reminded me of Singapore
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The dried shrimps in the shop are huge and fat. Not sure how the taste fairs compared to the Brunei's grade.
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Hong Kong is a crowded island. This is a view out of my bedroom window. It was only 11am at Time Square, one of the posch shopping areas in HK. But if you cast your view a few stone throws away, there were older and lower rises apartment. 
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Today I play Hong Kong housewife. Next to my service apartment, is a huge market for the local. I was like kids in the candy store checking out the fresh produces, jumping live fish and loads of fat dripping BBQ pork. Unlike KL, where vendors just have stalls, here everyone have shopfronts. The tofu shop has such a wide varieties of dofu, from soft to round, to flavoured and even fresh soya milk. I watched how a big tray of dofu was being cut up. Gingerlly the dofu vendor placed a flat broad piece of metal board on the soft silky dofu, and with a knife she cut along the edge of the metal board. With a zen like manner, she then cut criss cross into multiple square blocks. The chicken here is fat and I think expensive but fish and prawns are cheap. Cherries and strawberries are abundant and they are cheap too. The chili and ginger overhere are huge.
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I feel like immigrant Chinese packing their bag for the Big Apple. Here goes the long-maintained image of travel chic and travel light. Rice, red dates, longan, berries, a stew pot (which is yet to be packed inside the bag), oat meals and many other domestic household goods, waiting in line, to be packed into the luggage for Hong Kong. I am able to fly again. An apartment is waiting for me in Hong Kong, ready with kitchen, so that I can continue to drink my medicinal soups while working there.
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June 19 I accompanied my little misbehaving womb to an operating room to face the scalpels welding surgeon and needles ready nurses. June 30 stiches removed and my 5 inches zipper on my belly and me met for the first time. Doctor said no bikini this summer but next year Langkawi Swimsuit model contest I may stand a chance. Overall my recovery is thankfully very speedy and now two weeks after the surgery my sister thought I glowed over the webcam. I did not tell her it was the special effect of the Malaysian hazzy sky light.
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