Stanley Market is located in the southern part of Hong Kong Island. The Market is full of Chinese featured gifts and some modern stuff. You can buy fake antique and roller-skates here. You may get a Chinese stone seal made with your Chinese name engraved on it. (Don’t have one? The vendor will give you one based on your native name’s pronunciation and its meaning.) There is a strip by the water with a row of bars and restaurants. Many of them have outdoors dining in the weekends when the street is closed off to motorized vehicles.
Taking bus to the region is a reasonable method. But it depends on which bus you take. The trip may take a good hour to get there from the Central / Admiralty area on the Hong Kong Island. You should go early because most stores in the market will be closed later in the afternoon. When you are on a bus, the upper deck will provides you a better view. Down the road you will get a full view of shopping malls, historical places and leisure ground. Next to the vendors, the beach is the location of dragon boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival. That is one of the most noisy but prosperous moment of a year.