Gutzlaff Street

Gutzlaff Street is a lane in the district of Hong Kong, China, crossing , , Gage Street and Lyndhurst Terrace.

One of the oldest streets in Hong Kong, it was dedicated to the 19th-century missionary Karl Gutzlaff, who also worked for the British East India Company and then the colonial Hong Kong government. Well-versed in several Chinese dialects, Gutzlaff is usually known as 郭實臘 or 郭士立 in Chinese documents, but these two Chinese names were not used to name the street.



Before the Second World War, the lane was known as "Red-haired Dame Street" by the locals, "red-haired" then being a common adjective for describing Westerners. One version goes that, in the old days, western women in Hong Kong were frequently seen near the street, as there were plenty of Chinese shoemakers, who were crafted in making western-style shoes, doing business in that area, hence the name and another nickname "Shoe Repairing Street" . Another version goes that some western brothels operated there during the early days of colonial Hong Kong, hence the name. Today the street isknown by some local gourmets, as one of the few surviving ''dai pai dong'' is located there.