Yuen Po St, off Prince Edward Rd, Mong Kok. Daily 7am-8pm. Mong Kok’s Bird Market is housed in a purpose-built Chinese style garden. There are two or three dozen stalls crammed with caged songbirds, parakeets, mynah birds, live crickets tied up in little plastic bags (they’re fed to the birds with chopsticks), birdseed barrels and newly made bamboo cages - minus bird these start at $60 or so, though the more elaborate ones run into the hundreds. Little porcelain bird bowls and other paraphernalia cost from around $10. It’s interesting just to watch the local men who bring their own caged birds here for an airing and to listen to them sing; taking your songbird out for a walk is a popular pastime among older Chinese men, one you’ll see often in the more traditional areas of Hong Kong.