Hong Kong - Buildings & Streets

Anyone who's walked around any city with me will know that I am a camera freak when it comes to traveling & exploring. I absolutely LOVE observing different buildings/shops/sceneries/street scenes...etc
So here are some shots I took as I was walking around and as I was traveling in a cab.

BUILDINGS

The building is.... PINK!!!!
Notice the laundries being dried outside the windows

Seriously, yay for the natural drier

Almost anywhere you go in HK, you will find some kind of construction/renovation going on.
Buildings in HK don't match the ones standing around them.
It seems like architectures don't really pay attention to matching the styles of the buildings
around the new one they are trying to build.

SHOPPING

If I learned ONE thing about HK, it's that the country is veeeeerrrry shopping-centric

There are shops EVERYWHERE and every tourist spot is

FILLED with (not just restaurants) but SHOPS!

STREET EXPLORATION

In the middle of a road, on the way to eat dumpling soup
For some reason, I just really like this photo

This street somehow reminds me of NY streets near Time Square

Have no clue what street this is supposed to be...
But I can read "books"???

Street market!!

HONG KONG THROUGH MY EYES
(What I noticed in HK)

Mickey D is seriously EVERYWHERE!

HK really is shopping-centric.

OMG Hong Kong has palm trees!!!

????? One thing I noticed about Hong Kong escalators:
(and I still dont know WHY - someone pleasssse explain this to me)
You have to circle around and go to the opposite side to keep going up (or down)
Unlike the Korean and US ones where the escalators going the same direction
are located right next to each other.
One thought I have is that people are forced to look at the shops next to them
as they walk around to the other side.

I really don't get it, can someone PLEASSEEEEE tell me?