Chinese Dried Food Shopping in Hong Kong

Woke up early to fulfil our daughter / daughter-in-law duties! ˭̡̞(◞⁎˃ᆺ˂)◞*✰

The moment Mama Chew heard that I am going to Hong Kong, she got all excited and told me she has a list of dried food stuff that she wants and if we can go and help her buy if it is on the way.. Well, turns out, Wany's mother also has a list for her and she said it is always a mandatory practice for them to give their mum a few hours to go and buy dried foods. And the reason why she always stay in Eaton Hong Kong cos it is walking distance to the dried food shop and her mother can go by herself early in the morning while her sister and her sleep in because they don't wanna spend a few hours hanging around the dried food shops. LOL! Great strategy!

This is the shop that Wany's mother always frequent!

The shop is quite empty cos we were very early, but after a while a lot of aunties appeared to buy bags and bags of stuff.

There are so many different type of dried foods!

Dried oysters! This was on Mama Chew's list.

There are so many bird nests and dried sea cucumbers! I think there must be at least HKD1,000,000 worth of items in the shop... maybe more. I don't know. Sea cucumbers are crazyyyyy expensive and they have so many types of different sizes and species. 

Wany said her mum usually chooses the items by herself but since we are 2 noobs, we had to ask the nice uncle to help us out. Hahahahahaha! He is super chill and the best thing is he is not those hard selling type of sales person who keep pestering you to buy more stuff. 

Headed back to our hotel to drop off the stuff cos super heavy ahhhh! I asked Wany why the uncle give us such a cute bag instead of the ugly plastic bags that the other aunties got when they bought stuff. Wany said we had to spend a certain amount to get the nice canvas bag. They usually give out those plain generic plastic bags.. but somehow both of us got 2 canvas bag each even though we did not spent the minimum amount to "qualify". She said it is because I am an Uncle-killer so they gave us the bags. LOLOL! (n˘v˘•)¬