Street sights in Hong Kong
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Nathan Road
Kowloon’s main drag is a bit of a traffic- and pedestrian-choked scrum of electronics shops and jewellery stores. It’s nonetheless an iconic Hong Kong scene stacked with seedy guesthouses rubbing shoulders with top-end hotels, and tenement blocks separated by patches of green. And it’s completely safe – which is just as well since you won’t be able to avoid criss-crossing it if you spend any time in the area.
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Tai Ping Shan Street
Shortly after the founding of the colony, the local residents in Central were relocated to this area. Traces of early Chinese settlements are long gone, but several temples founded in the 19th century are still clustered around where Tai Ping Shan St meets Pound Lane.Kwun Yam Temple honours the ever-popular goddess of mercy, Kwun Yam. Further to the northwest, the Pak Sing Ancestral Hall was originally a storeroom for bodies awaiting burial in China. It contains the ancestral tablets of around 3000 departed souls.
Near the southeast end of the street where it meets with Bridges St are a handful of up-and-coming galleries, cafes and lifestyle shops.
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Possession Street
A short distance west of Cat St, next to Hollywood Road Park and before Hollywood Rd meets Queen’s Rd West, is Possession St. This is where Commodore Gordon Bremmer and a contingent of British marines planted the Union flag on 26 January 1841 and claimed Hong Kong Island for the Crown (though no plaque marks this birthplace of colonial Hong Kong).
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