Wan Chai Market

Very good experience at Wan Chai Market! The place is clean and well-organized, making it easy to find everything I needed. The selection of fresh produce was impressive, I particularly appreciated the variety of products available. Overall, it’s a great place for quality groceries at reasonable prices!

Excelent market to visit in the heart of Wan Chai, an awesome district in Hong Kong.

Not the largest market, but it has everything that you could want on a daily basis, and items are very, very fresh!

Wanchai market is one of the best wet markets that I have been to in the entire world. Produce is fresh, especially before noon time. There is live seafood, live chicken, imported fruit, local vegetables, barbecued meat, Indonesian and Philippine shops, discount stores, fresh flowers and plants and much more. You will love to just roam around and look. Most items have fixed price so no bargaining. Most stalls only take cash, no octopus or credit cards.

Wan Chai market is tucked away right in the middle of a bustling modern commercial district in the heart of Hong Kong. In my opinion, this market competes with Sam Shui Po market at Kowloon but Wan Chai is cleaner and more organized for me. You can buy fresh produce here as well as meats and more and even live seafood but you can also buy dry goods, clothes and so much more. Pretty much anything under the sun

On Sept 28, 2023, I visited the market again after a lapse of many months. Many customers and I were attracted by the lanterns displayed in stalls. Business was good during lunch hour and on the eve of the Mid-autumn festival.

It is a good market to get all your daily needs. Starting from vegetables to meat to fish, you will get everything. Best part is you can chose variety of payment mode Starting from cash to octopus payment. Enjoy your stay.

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Some fruit vendors only sell by the case, but shop around and you'll find everything & some. Tons of fresh fruit and veggies. Japanese grapes and Australian mangos are ginormous. Definitely recommend if you're not grossed out by the smell of raw meat. Some vendors speak English or they're type it into the calculator for you to see.

So interesting to visit the Wan Chai Market with Jacky from This Is Asia Tours. Wan Chai was established in the 1930s as a wet market, or a local market for fresh fish, fruits, vegetables and meat. Today, you can still choose from a wide variety of fresh fish or other seafood. That is fish that are alive in a small tank swimming and thrashing. You choose your fish, or other amphibian dinner choice, and they kill, skin and scale it for you to take home and cook. Can't get much fresher than that unless you caught it yourself. Apparently they used to have poultry as well in the past. Fears of avian flu have made that market offering virtually obsolete. The selection of baskets and baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables was quite impressive. Rambutan. Longan. Durian. Cherries. Mangosteen. Water spinach. Choi sum. Grab some spices, too. There are also bakeries filled with egg tarts and pineapples buns (that don't have pineapple) and a shop that sells snake soup that does have snake. Did not sample that one. Shop like a local at the Wan Chai Wet Market.

Much different from the Temple St. Market. It is mostly meat and veggies. It was clean and didn't smell like you'd expect. Very friendly people. Loved our visit to Hong Kong and this was a definite highlight. Only downside was we visited here the last day of our trip so we couldn't buy anything to make at our Airbnb. Next time this will be on day ones to do list!

had the greatest time in 2016? Hong Kong is magnificent. visited Bruce Lee's movie studio and life was amazing. it's June 2020 and the world is burning. MLM. The market was a good hotspot for me, was welcomed and stared at the same time. But respect was shown and to speak English to make customers welcome is appreciated. Beautiful smiles from some of the most gorgeous young gals ever seen in this lifetime. Visiting China is a must this was one of my greatest Asia visits.Just nice.

This is the closest 'wet market' for me and one of the places I walk past most days. Sometimes, I don't buy anything at all, but it's on my way home and I enjoy the atmosphere so much I don't try to find side streets to avoid the crowd. Over the last years, supermarkets have risen in popularity with detriment to traditional markets which it's a shame. If something comes to everybody's minds when thinking of Hong Kong, that's its crowded authentic street markets. Wan Chai market's main building is located at the lower level of "The Zenith" building but the market has spread outside in the side streets too. Besides vegetables and fresh fruit, meat and fish, you can find all sorts of homecare and clothing stalls selling ladies and men's underwear and t-shirts. There are also a couple of Chinese bakeries. The market opens up at 6am and closes by 8pm. Obviously, food is fresher in the morning but you'll get the best deals by around 7 to 8, and the food usually remains fresh. Wan Chai market is mostly frequented by locals, but most vendors speak some English, which may be enough if you are talking about prices and quantities, but don't expect them to explain the origin or type of fish or meat. Price wise, within the market most stalls keep their prices within the same range, but I've noticed they are more expensive than other (not so central) wet markets and even supermarkets. And you want to know a little secret? Walking around these streets at night it's a complete different experience! The streets look so dim and quiet, you'll think you're somewhere else than Wan Chai.

Wan Chai Street market is surely one of the cleaner ones in hong kong. I don't regularly shop at wet markets just because they tend to be literally "wet" everywhere, and it's dirty, sometimes i imagine myself slipping and falling to the ground, i honestly don't know how i would react if that actually happened. I mean with any market, i am pretty sure i wouldn't want to slip and fall at all... but at least the wan chai street market doesn't reek of seafood and meats. I have only been here a handful of times, once was for a hot pot, and my friends sent me to get the food. They don't have a huge variety here compared to some of the other street markets i've been. What i like about it here though, is that everything is very neat. It almost seems like they've rented out a nice venue just to sell food.. does that make sense? It almost doesn't feel like a wet market. When I came, it was during the day on a weekday, so it was not very busy, you will see a lot of grannies and domestic helpers buying their groceries. the store attendants (especially one fruit stall) was very helpful. They don't have a huge variety of selection in terms of fruit but it was clean and fresh, which was enough for me. When you roam outside, apparently, that is part of the wet market as well. It is just one street that leads up to the main road, they have more livestock and seafood there.

If you need produce and meat, this is the place to go for fresh groceries. There are a lot of shops to choose from and it's pretty hard to compare all the prices between them but the shops on the outside seem a bit cheaper. Just go to where the locals are crowding around. Most shops start packing up around 18:30. Bring cash and definitely don't expect to get a receipt.

Wear shoes that don't make you slip. Sometimes the fish oily substance will leak and when you step on it with a bad shoe you might slip.