Wan Chai Market

Fabulous wet market with fresh fruits and vegetables. Though Welcome supermarket is cheaper but it feels good to support local small businesses

Fresh fruit and vegetables, so many options of fresh seafood and fish, lovely

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!

I'm very impressed with the fully air conditioned wet market. All wet markets in Singapore should be fully air conditioned too.

Bring you back to 40 years of HK life style ……. if you want to experience the history, suggest spend some times in the small grocery store, shops, but then you can also enjoy the modern tasty & delicacy just next street in few minutes ……

The Old Wanchai Market was constructed in 1937. It is located at 264 Queen's Road East, at the Wan Chai Road crossing, opposite Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island. It is a Grade III Historic Building. Its architectural style is influenced by Streamline Moderne (also known as Streamlined Moderne or Art Moderne) architecture, a popular style of building of the 1930s. It is often erroneously referred to as a Bauhaus-style building. Wan Chai Market, the wet market housed in the old market building since 1937, has moved into the new market complex on the lower levels of "The Zenith", a newly built residential development located just opposite to the market building, in September 2008. The Wan Chai Market was initially a wet place where merchants would sell their belongings. It was also used as a garage for Bullock Carts and thus was called the 'Wet Garage' (Chinese: 濕車庫). It was named in 1917. During Japanese occupation, the basement of the Wan Chai Market was used by Japanese soldiers for the storage of corpses.[2] In 1961, the Market underwent a renovation to improve its facilities and environment so that the Market could compete with other market places in the district.[2] The Land Development Corporation obtained approval from the Executive Council to acquire land in Wan Chai, including this site, for redevelopment as part of an urban renewal project. A consortium was formed comprising Chinese Estates (40%), Kwong Sang Hong (25%), Chi Cheung Investment (20%) and Peregrine Group (15%). Chinese Estates, controlled by Joseph Lau Luen-hung, agreed with the Urban Renewal Authority in 1996 to jointly redevelop the site into a luxury residential-commercial complex. Phase two of the project, which requires the demolition of the building, was scheduled to start early 2008 and be completed by mid-2011. In 2007, the Urban Renewal Authority and the Development Bureau jointly announced that the facade and the front part of the historic market building will be preserved in the redevelopment project; the front part will be used as a shopping centre. A residential building will stand at the back of the market building.

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.

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.

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.