Hong Kong's best shopping hotspots
AVOIDING shops in Hong Kong is like avoiding August typhoons. Both are driven by inescapable cosmic forces. They arrive in a tempest, full of passion and fury, but once they pass, they leave a strange calm that is a mixture of relief and triumph.

There are probably few people who don't feel the urge to shop when they visit Hong Kong. It is one of the great shopping centres of the world, but that is also one of its flaws – the city can seem like a giant shopping centre.

At times, wandering mindlessly past and through the 700 shops in Canton Rd's flagship Harbour City, I could have sworn I was at Melbourne's own fashion capital, Chadstone.