World Wide House in Central is mostly known as a place where Filipina domestic helpers go to stock up on products from the Philippines. This means that there are a lot of shops here that sell Filipino snacks, beauty products -- including those ever-present and dangerous skin bleaching kits. Tsk!
However, World Wide House has a lot more things than just snack food and colonial mentality products. There are the usual shops selling clothing, jewellery and shoes, lots of tailors -- two of the best used to be housed here -- and even electronics shops. There are also lots of money remittance and foreign exchange places here with really good rates. Do have a look around, you'll find that they're very competitive. There are also a ton of door-to-door freight forwarders here.
You can also buy all sorts of phone cards for international calls.
World Wide House is also home to Chaip Coin, where you can buy almost any magazine you desire at a discounted price. Japanese, Korean, European...all kinds of magazines that you've never heard of talking about stuff you didn't think people would publish magazines about.
World Wide House also has this watch shop. This guy is quite famous for his hand-crafted watches. He's got some kind of special tourbillon technique. A fellow artisan! I hope to master my craft the way he has his.
And finally, World Wide House has lots of these little eateries with delicious Filipino food, a cuisine that I cannot believe most people have not tried. Filipino food is just plain fantastic. These eateries don't have the best kind, but they're a decent enough introduction. For HKD25, you get a scoop of rice and two viands of your choice.