Hong Kong Street market

Fuk Wa Street

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Fuk Wa Street is a street in Cheung Sha Wan and Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Part of the street is a street market with numerous stalls selling varieties of goods like old books and clothes. Its section between Yen Chow Street and Kweilin Street where the famous Golden Computer Arcade is located.

It spans from Castle Peak Road to Tai Po Road. The street breaks into several parts by various building structures.
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* Kowloon Technical School, Cheung Sha Wan Factory Estate, Un Chau Estate and Cheung Sha Wan Catholic School, between Camp Street and Cheung Wah Street

Unlike the names of streets nearby, it does not follow the place names in China. Its name means blessing and prosperous while its brother street Fuk Wing Street glorious, prosperous .

Apliu Street

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Apliu Street is a street in the Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong . It runs parallel to Cheung Sha Wan Road between Yen Chow Street and Nan Cheong Street. An easy way to reach it is to get off at the MTR Sham Shui Po Station. Use the A2 or C2 exit and you will be ascending directly into Apliu Street.

Apliu Street has a huge flea market containing electronics, electrical components, and related items. A shopper can find both new and used merchandise in the area. Apliu Street is well known for Geek Shopping.

While Apliu Street is famous for electronic parts, the Golden Shopping Arcade found on the other side of Cheung Sha Wan Road is famous computer hardware and related items.

The Cantonese name Apliu comes from a village which was formerly located nearby but has long since been buried underneath the urbanization of Sham Shui Po.

Wing Sing Street

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Wing Sing Street , commonly known as Egg Street , was a street in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. A narrow street was famous for its egg market, dating back to early Chinese settlement on the Victoria City on the Hong Kong Island. The ladder of street filled the shops of all kinds of eggs. The market was erased from the map by Land Development Corporation for the re-development of the area bounded by Wing Lok Street, Man Wa Lane, Bonham Strand, Queen's Road Central and Wing Wo Street. The bounded area now erects Cosco Tower and Grand Millennium Plaza.

Wing On Street

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Wing On Street , commonly known as Cloth Street , is a street in , Hong Kong. The section between Des Voeux Road Central and Queen's Road Central was a cloth market. The market was moved to Western Market when Land Development Corporation decided to redevelop a skyscraper The Center.

Wing Kut Street

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Wing Kut Street is a border street of Sheung Wan and extended from Aberdeen Street on the Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is also a street market.

Tsing Yi Town

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Tsing Yi Town was a town on Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong. Many people at that time referred the town as Tsing Yi Main Street , namely the main street of the town.

The Chinese character Hui means market that people gathers at fix period, usually nine to ten days. However, the stalls and shops open every day in the town. It is the possible one of the reasons that people called the town ''main street''.

Transport

The town was by the Tsing Yi Bay and Tsing Yi Lagoon. In the early days, the town had no motor roads. Resident travelled on foot within island and external transport totally relied on sea. Taking sampan to Tsuen Wan was a typical example. Later Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry provided services to and fro Tsuen Wan. Later the service extended to .

Upon the completion of Tsing Yi Bridge, the motor roads were built to various places including Tsing Yi Town. Kowloon Motor Bus established bus routes to Tsuen Wan and Mei Foo.

Relocation

Upon the demolition of Tsing Yi Town, most of shops in the town were relocated to the re-sited villages of Chung Mei and Lo Uk near Sheung Ko Tan. Shops open on the ground floor of houses and form a market. The informal Chung Mei Market still operates as of 2006 and is busy every early morning.

Stanley Market

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Stanley Market is a street market in on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The street is a typical example of a traditional old open-air market in Hong Kong and has since become a major tourist attraction, well known for its bargains. Many of the stalls or shops in Stanley Market sell Hong Kong souvenirs as well as clothing - particularly silk garments and traditional Chinese dress - toys, ornaments, luggage, souvenirs, and Chinese arts and crafts. The market grew out of Chek Chu Tsuen, a village nearby.

There are several small Chinese restaurants in the marketplace and a small old Dai pai dong, one of the few left in Hong Kong. There are a variety of restaurants along the seafront too.

The nearby Stanley Main Street offers many larger restaurants, both Western and Chinese, and is a popular spot to see and be seen on the weekends.

Reclamation Street

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Reclamation Street is a street stretching from Yau Ma Tei to Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. As its name suggests, it was built on the reclaimed western shore of Kowloon Peninsula. The street is lined with old residential buildings, as well as a wide variety of businesses at the street level. The wholesale Fruit Market and abandoned Yaumati Theatre is located at the street's junction with .

Pottinger Street

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Pottinger Street is a street in , Hong Kong.

The street was named after the first Governor of Hong Kong, Henry Pottinger. The street was originally on the slope between Queen's Road Central and Hollywood Road. The street is also better known as the ''Rocky Road'' by the locals, after granite stone steps which is rare nowaday in Hong Kong.

The Central was undergoing several reclamations and thus the street was extends north from Queen's Road Central to Connaught Road Central. Several buildings like Man Yee Building, Wing On House, Chinachem Tower and Hong Kong Chinese Bank Building are on this section.

Pei Ho Street

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Pei Ho Street is street in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The street is also a market and full of hawkers. The former Urban Council had built a Pei Ho Street Municipal Services Building accommodating some stalls in old market.

Low economic profile and height limit of buildings on airway of former Kai Tak Airport helps Pei Ho Street to preserve buildings on the earliest planned town of Sham Shui Po in Western Kowloon. The style of Ke Lau , balcony with two front s, once popular in colonial Hong Kong prior to World War II are easily found on the street.

The end of the Pei Ho Street was the former Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier. The pier was an important ferry pier from 1920s to 1970s. Thousands of commuters took ferry to on the Hong Kong Island.

Name

Like many other streets in adjacent, the street is named after major trading city name in China. Pei Ho is a river in northern China, collecting water from other four rivers and runs to sea near Taku fortress, the gate to protect Peking.

Peel Street

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Peel Street is located in , Hong Kong, named after Robert Peel, the two-time .

Features

The street starts from the Queen's Road Central and spans uphills into the Mid-levels. At the lower end, there is a fresh food market. At the upper end, there are many eateries, both traditional and trendy. There is also the Ho Hei Kee Umbrella , run by Mr. Ho Hung-hei, which has attracted the attention of many mass media.

Redevelopment plan

Urban Renewal Authority declared Peel Street/Graham Street redevelopment project As the project is located at the historical Central street market, it aroused much attention on the conservation of culture.

Gallery

Lyndhurst Terrace

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Lyndhurst Terrace is a street in of Hong Kong. Building on the slope in southern Central, the terrace links Hollywood Road and on different levels. In the middle it meets the junction with Gage Street and Cochrane Street, also the Central-Mid-Levels escalators.

The native name 擺花 literally means flower putting. That is flower display and selling. It is a traditional market for selling flowers. Some stalls of florists turns into shops in surrounding streets.

The terrace was named after John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, an Assistant Magistrate.

Gutzlaff Street

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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.

Graham Street

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Graham Street is one of the oldest markets in Victoria City of Hong Kong. Located in , the street starts from Queen's Road Central and runs uphill and south to Staunton Street, crossing , , Gage Street, Lyndhurst Terrace and Hollywood Road.

The street is narrow but allow two rows of stalls on its two sides. Fresh food like seafoods, vegetables, meats and others can be found along the street.

Currently, the URA are planning to redevelop Graham Street. This will affect over 30 buildings in the process.

Gage Street

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Gage Street is a street in , Hong Kong. It is on the lower hill and between the junction with Cochrane Street and Lyndhurst Terrace, Graham Street and Aberdeen Street. The street is mainly a market.

It is named after William Hall Gage.