Quarry Bay

Western companies are also increasingly turning to more affordable locations such as Quarry Bay, at a time when Chinese companies are boosting their presence in the prime Central district, according to Tom Gaffney, a managing director at real estate services firm CBRE.

2017 June 19, Jess Macy Yu, Julie Zhu, Michelle Price, Michelle Chen, Gabriel Yiu, Katy Wong, Raffaele Huang, “Chinese bankers flock to Hong Kong as expats retreat”, in nne Marie Roantree, Bill Tarrant, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-02-09, ビジネス:

It was all the more shocking for its time and location: a sunny afternoon in Quarry Bay, a neighborhood in the northeast of Hong Kong Island.

2018 June 27, Tiffany May, “In Hong Kong, Where Guns Are Rare, Deadly Shooting Shocks Residents”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-27:

In Hong Kong’s eastern district of Quarry Bay, Vanessa Tai was among more than 40 people who stood in line at a DHL service point, many holding envelopes with application documents.

2020 June 1, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong blocks Tiananmen vigil; rush on for UK passports”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-11-24:

Priscilla Pun, a sales manager, got tested to give herself peace of mind. “I don’t see any reason not to do it, and this way I can let my family in Canada know that I am safe,” said Pun, who was tested at a center in the eastern Quarry Bay neighborhood.

2020 August 31, Zen Soo, “Hong Kong begins mass-testing for virus amid public doubts”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20, Business:


Sai Wan Ho

From Cantonese 西灣河 /西湾河 (sai¹ waan¹ ho⁴⁻²).

From Central take the MTR to Sai Wan Ho and change to Bus 14; get off at Tai Tam Road after passing the dam of Tai [Tam] Tuk Reservoir.

2006, “Hong Kong Beaches”, in The New York Times, Fodor's, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Travel:

The video shows a police officer in a white shirt and neon vest pulling his gun on a group of protesters surrounding him at an intersection in the Sai Wan Ho neighborhood.

2019 November 10, Elaine Yu, “Hong Kong Protesters Urge General Strike for Monday”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-10, Asia Pacific:

Early on Nov. 11, protesters began obstructing roads and disrupting train service as part of a general strike. The incident, in the Sai Wan Ho neighborhood, shows a police officer walking across the road toward a group of masked protesters.

2019 December 24, Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, Tiffany Liang, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “In Hong Kong crackdown, police repeatedly broke their own rules — and faced no consequences”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-24:


Shau Kei Wan

From Cantonese 筲箕灣 /筲箕湾 (saau¹ gei¹ waan¹).

Shau Ki Wan (alternative)
Sau Ki Wan (alternative)
Sau Kei Wan (alternative)
Shaukeiwan (alternative)
Saukeiwan (alternative)
Shaukiwan (alternative)
Saukiwan (alternative)

Lee Lan can see the lights from as far away as her home at Shau Kei Wan, and she never ceases to marvel at them.

1962 [1961], Ralph Herrmanns, translated by Annabelle MacMillan, Lee Lan Flies the Dragon Kite, 1st American edition, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/leelanfliesdrago00herr/page/n18/:

To reach Rennie’s Mill on her first visit there, Sister Annie boarded one of the green double-deck trams which run along the Hong Kong Island waterfront, and rode to the fishing village of Shau Kei Wan, near the eastern entrance of Hong Kong Harbor.

1966, Gene Gleason, chapter 6, in Joy to My Heart, 1st edition, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:

After the final whistle, the best way to explore the sights and sounds of Hong Kong is to hop on the ‘Ding Ding’ tram which runs from Kennedy Town in the island’s west to Shau Kei Wan in the east.

2010 October 14, “Travel Picks: Top 10 sporting event destinations for 2011”, in Belinda Goldsmith, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-18, Lifestyle:

Sampans and punts crowded the tight harbors of places like Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, and these fisherfolk cooked up the day’s catch for their customers on the most minimal of stoves.

2016, Carolyn Phillips, “The Coastal Southeast”, in All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:

In his boatyard on Hong Kong Island, in the eastern district of Shau Kei Wan, he points to photographs of wooden ships of all kinds that he has built since being apprenticed to an uncle at the age of 13: simple “walla-walla” motorboats and corporate junks that carry some design elements of the traditional junk but without sails.
Beyond the wood shavings, the harbor glitters in the sun. Fishing boats draw up outside to deliver their catch to the next-door Shau Kei Wan wholesale fish market.

2017 February 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “On Deck With China’s Last Junk Builders, Masters of an Ebbing Craft”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-26, Asia Pacific:

Ho made an appearance in the Shau Kei Wan neighborhood but residents shouted at him and told him to leave, RTHK said.

2019 September 21, Raf Wober, “Hong Kong protesters, police face off in renewed clashes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

The report lists three locations in the territory — Sai Kung Town, Aberdeen and Shau Kei Wan — where Hong Kongers are picked up by boats and taken to the Taiwan Strait, where they board another boat and are dropped off either in Hsinchu or Chiayi county, or Taichung, Tainan or Kaohsiung.

2020 June 26, Li-hua Chung, “New rules intensify distrust in China: academic”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-27, Taiwan News, page 3:


Aldrich Bay

In Aldrich Street’s translation story, English and Cantonese are creatively intertwined. Situated in Aldrich Bay, the area is named after Colonel Edward Aldrich, who was responsible for formulating the British defence plan and was known for his remarkable effectiveness in rectifying military discipline. When the bay was named after him in 1845, “Aldrich” was converted to 「愛秩序」(ngoi3 dit6 zeoi6) in Chinese, which means “loving discipline” and its Cantonese transliteration.

2022 December 25, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 1: Lost in translation, Hong Kong’s weird and wonderful street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, Hong Kong:

A neighbourhood of Shau Kei Wan, Eastern district, Hong Kong.

Tenders for the 75,950 sq ft site in the Aldrich Bay reclamation area will close at noon on Friday.

1998 May 20, Sandy Li, “Jakarta turmoil may hit Aldrich Bay sale”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-27, Latest:

Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island#English

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Shau Kei Wan, Eastern district, Hong Kong, now reclaimed.


Chai Wan

The grassroots scene is also expanding rapidly. While soaring rents have pushed many galleries to the Chai Wan and Aberdeen districts, you can see the burgeoning local scene on Hollywood Road in Central and in the trendy "PoHo" area in nearby Sheung Wan, where independent galleries are cropping up.

2013 November 29, Farah Master, “Trip Tips: Relax in fast-paced Hong Kong with great food, stunning hikes”, in John O'Callaghan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-06-30, Business:

“Score,” Mr. McNamara’s first work since “Meem” was honored at Performa 13 in New York, will not be shown at the convention center where the fair is being held or at a conventional gallery or studio. Instead, Mr. McNamara will work with local and New York dancers in a parking garage in Chai Wan, an industrial area on the city’s eastern edge.
Chai Wan is where artists, photographers and designers have turned warehouses into studios and, although it is against zoning regulations, into loft homes as well.
Katie de Tilly, an organizer of the events in Chai Wan, said neighborhood was so undeveloped that the parking garage would be cleared out for Mr. McNamara.

2014 May 15, Joyce Lau, “Hong Kong Nourishes Local Arts Scene”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-05-15, International Arts:

In Chai Wan, Hong Kong, under the heavy rain of 150 mm in one hour, the streets have turned into raging rivers!

2023 September 7, Washington Post Staff, quoting Jim yang (@yangyubin1998), “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-07, Asia:


Siu Sai Wan

From Cantonese 小西灣 /小西湾 (siu² sai¹ waan¹).

In the Chai Wan district, at the far eastern end of Hong Kong island, Lee was immersed not in the weighty issues of democracy and civil liberties, but the more mundane matters of everyday life here -- the need for a new bus stop and whether residents of the Siu Sai Wan housing estate could get an overhead walkway to avoid having to dash across a dangerous highway.

1997 September 13, Keith B. Richburg, “HONG KONG'S DEMOCRATS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-21:

Employers living in Siu Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island’s northeast side pay the lowest salaries in the city to domestic helpers, a survey has found.

2017 September 16, Raquel Carvalho, “Siu Sai Wan on Hong Kong Island labelled worst paying area for domestic helpers amid campaign for wage increase”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-16, Hong Kong economy:

Ms. Tang’s inevitable contact with people who are ill has started to worry her. It did not help when she learned that someone living in a building near her own, in Siu Sai Wan, had been infected by the virus.

2020 February 18, Isabella Kwai, “How a Pharmacy Handles Mask Hoarders and Coronavirus Fears”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-02-18, Asia Pacific:

A residential area in Eastern district, Hong Kong.


Pok Fu Lam

Pokfulam (alternative)
Pok Fu Lum (alternative)
Pokfulum (alternative)
Pok-foo-lum (alternative)

Battersea Power Station is among a host of world monuments that have been placed on a list of threatened heritage. It is one of 67 cultural sites in 41 countries deemed to be at risk from the forces of nature and social, political and economic change.
They range from Venice to the little-known village of Pok Fu Lam in Hong Kong, and include sites dating from prehistory to the twentieth century.

2013 October 9, “Battersea Power Station ‘at risk’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-11:

When social worker Benjamin Sin Chiu-hang was posted to the Caritas office in Pok Fu Lam Village, he knew he had arrived somewhere special. “The people living there were somehow different from the people elsewhere in Hong Kong,” he says. “It’s a horizontal community, very vernacular and organic.”

2017 January 11, Christopher Dewolf, “Stories behind Hong Kong districts: Pok Fu Lam Village, once a rural idyll, unbowed amid uncertain future”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-13, Travel & Leisure:

The organiser of another fire dragon dance performance, which traditionally took place in Pok Fu Lam Village on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, said on the same radio programme that they were yet to receive a formal reply from the government as to whether the event can go ahead.

2022 August 30, Kelly Ho, “Hong Kong’s iconic Tai Hang fire dragon dance cancelled for third consecutive year amid Covid-19”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-08-21, Hong Kong:

A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Cyberport Management, landlord of the government-backed flagship hi-tech facility in Pok Fu Lam, will invest HK$100 million ($12.9 million) in the next three years to make the Cyperport an Asia-Pacific information and communications technology hub, said Chairman Paul Chow.

2010 December 15, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Dec 16”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-21, CONSUMER GOODS AND RETAIL:

When they bought a penthouse in Pok Fu Lam, a leafy neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong island, Will Toye and Nicole Schoeni wanted to make the most of their roof, which they use frequently for entertaining.

2011 October 17, Alec Frew McMillan, “Looking for Space in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-10-18:

An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.

2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2023-08-21, Local:

The woman went to the waterfall inside a park in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island on Sunday night with the suspect, but he rushed off alone in a taxi after staying there for about half an hour, police said.

2024 October 30, Kanis Leung, “A man is arrested on suspicion of killing a woman in a Hong Kong park”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2024-11-30, World News:

An area in Southern district, Hong Kong.


Ap Lei Chau

From Cantonese 鴨脷洲 /鸭脷洲 (aap³ lei⁶ zau¹).

Ap Li Chau (alternative)
Aplichau (alternative)

An island in Southern district, Hong Kong.

On Thursday night, five people were wounded when a corrosive liquid was thrown from a tower block at pro-democracy protesters who had gathered in the southern district of Ap Lei Chau.

2019 September 13, “Hong Kong protesters plan festival-themed hillside light show”, in France 24, sourced from Hong Kong (AFP), archived from the original on 2019-09-17:

The international property consultancy Knight Frank noted in a May 2021 report: “With almost no overseas tourists because of travel restrictions and lockdowns, prime retail rents have declined by over 50%.” Thanks to this trend, the founders of Young Soy were able to procure their first space in an industrial building in the Ap Lei Chau neighborhood, while fellow newcomer 13a New Street Gallery opened up in the Tai Ping Shan neighborhood.

2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22, Art & Design:

CK Asset will pounce when it spots rivals in distress. It was in talks with banks, including HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc, to take over most of the HK$10.2 billion project loan for The Corniche, a luxury residential building in the southern Ap Lei Chau district, built by Chinese developers Logan Group Co. and KWG Group Holdings Ltd.

2023 August 13, Shuli Ren, “‘Superman’ Tests Hong Kong’s Stressed Property Market”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-25, Energy:


Shouson Hill

Named after Hong Kong businessman Shouson Chow.

named-after

The Chinese believe feng shui, pronounced fung shway, can help blunt the ill effects to health and wealth brought on, for example, by the inauspicious jut of an adjacent building or hill.
It’s why the doors on Jardine House, headquarters of the colony’s flagship commercial firm, are slightly askew. It’s why property prices in the Shouson Hill area are lower than the ritzy neighborhoods next door. It’s why one McDonald’s used to have a fish tank by the door. Aquariums and mirrors make good ghostbusters.

1997 January 31, Charles Hutzler, “Leader’s office hunt a lesson in arcana and parking problems”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

Shouson Hill is a centrepiece of Hong Kong’s Island South area, rising above Deep Water Bay cloaked in lush greenery. There, magnificent luxury homes can be found tucked into the tree-covered slope amid meandering roads. A multitude of tycoons and celebrities have called Shouson Hill home, drawn to the residential enclave by the exclusivity, prestige and tranquillity it offers, yet still within easy reach of the city centre, elite schools and private members’ clubs.

2022 September 2, “Extraordinary work by film industry heavyweights Stanley Kwan and Victor Wong depicts the fusion of design and nature at ultra-luxury development No.15 Shouson”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-25, Interiors & Living:

Notably, Chow played a significant role in the attempted development of the land that eventually became Kai Tak International Airport, collaborating with Sir Boshan Wei Yuk and other Chinese businessmen. Upon his retirement, the Hong Kong government honoured his dedicated service by naming the hill where his residence stood Shouson Hill (壽臣山) and the surrounding road Shouson Hill Road (壽山村道).

2024 February 17, Diana Pang, “Foreign influence Part 4.: From wharves to wealth – how trade & commerce shaped Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-17, Hong Kong:


Wong Chuk Hang

From Cantonese 黃竹坑 /黄竹坑 (wong⁴ zuk¹ haang¹).

Mr Blair-Kerr went on to say that the place where the offence occurred was just off Brick Hill, or Wong Chuk Hang, near Aberdeen. The complainant, Chan For-tai, would give evidence that he, his wife, mother and two brothers, set off in their fishing junk about 2 a.m., on January 5 to fish. They sailed south from Aberdeen, then eastwards towards Wong Chuk Hang, and were heading for an island further south, Po Toi.
Off Wong Chuk Hang, the junk was stopped by a small sampan, containing four occupants. The Crown's case was that two of them were the accused in the dock.

1954 April 5, “Sequel To Raid On Aberdeen Fishing Junk”, in China Mail, number 35783, →OCLC, page 10, column 6:

Wong Chuk Hang is a neighbourhood in flux. What began as one of the earliest settlements on Hong Kong Island has gone from a quaint fishing village to a buzzing boat-building community, a manufacturing hub, and eventually a neglected, postindustrial backwater.

2018 January 6, “How to turn a new MTR station into a gateway to the south”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-09-23, HKFP Voices:

The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.

2020 July 10, Tiffany May, Austin Ramzy, “Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-10:

“Before I cooked the fish it was quite firm, but after I cooked it the texture changed to being like real fish,” Leung said of the culinary experiment that took place in the gritty Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood late last year.

2021 January 28, Marianne Bray, “Hong Kong cooks up lab-grown fish as appetite for 'clean meat' rises”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-01-29, APAC:

The female officer, who was attached to the patrol subunit at Central Police Station, was discovered cheating during the written test at the Police College in Wong Chuk Hang on Tuesday, a source on Wednesday said.

2022 August 18, Clifford Lo, Danny Mok, “Hong Kong police investigating after daughter of ex-assistant commissioner allegedly cheated on force exam”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-17, Law and Crime:


Repulse Bay

Uncertain. There is no evidence known for stories of pirates being repulsed or of a ship called the "HMS Repulse" being stationed there.

The judge disagreed with the argument that living at his residence in Repulse Bay meant Cheung did not feel sorry for his actions, saying that it could have been his wife who had insisted on living there.

2015 September 15, Karen Cheung, “Former ExCo Councillor sentenced to 160 hours of community service for failing to pay employees’ wages”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-11-17, Hong Kong, Law & Crime:

Real estate agents worry that in the future, developers might get more conservative in land bidding — not just in Kai Tak but in other areas, too, because of the government’s lack of commitment to earlier plans. Some now advise potential buyers to look at locations less accessible via public transportation, such as the Peak and Repulse Bay.

2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Business:

The more popular beaches, such as Repulse Bay, are busy day and night throughout summer.[…]
Repulse Bay has changing rooms, showers, toilets, swimming rafts, swimming safety-zone markers, and playgrounds.

2006, “Hong Kong Beaches”, in The New York Times, Fodor's, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Travel:

A large window was blown out of an office building in the Tseung Kwan O district, footage from broadcaster TVB showed. Photos posted on Facebook showed water levels at Repulse Bay beach surging several metres higher than normal level, partially submerging its landmark Tin Hau temple.

2023 September 2, Farah Master, Joyce Zhou, Tyrone Siu, Ben Blanchard, “Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau”, in William Mallard, Miral Fahmy, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-09-02, Environment:

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Repulse Bay, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Deep Water Bay

Possibly a calque of Cantonese 深水灣 /深水湾 (sam¹ seoi² waan¹, literally “Deep Water Bay”).

calque

Most of those properties are in the city's most exclusive areas, on Victoria Peak or the neighborhoods on the south side of Hong Kong Island, like Deep Water Bay. In those secluded areas, leafy lanes give way to gardens, pools and high-end houses. Luxury apartments in the same locations shared similar price leaps.

2005 April 22, Alex Frew McMillan, “Hong Kong is hot again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-05, Real Estate:

At Deep Water Bay the action starts at dawn every morning, all year long, when members of the Polar Bear Club go for a dip.

Hang Lung agreed in September to buy the property situated on a hill in the south of Hong Kong Island overlooking Deep Water Bay currently used as consulate staff accommodation. It plans to redevelop the site as luxurious detached homes, targeted for completion by 2024.

2021 February 18, Clare Jim, “Hang Lung says property deal with U.S. consulate to proceed after China's approval”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-06-11, World:

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Deep Water Bay, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Shek O

Shicko (alternative)
Shiako (alternative)
Sheko (alternative)

The bus drops you at the small bus station in Shek O village. Walk down the road to the roundabout and the beach is ahead of you, behind the car park.

2002, Jules Brown, Hong Kong & Macau, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 106:

Located at the end of a peninsula and only accessible via a narrow, sharply winding road, the little beachside village of Shek O is worlds away from the towers of Central.

2013, Simon Ostheimer, “Hong Kong's 'Must See' Sights”, in Hong Kong Tuttle Travel Pack: Your Guide to Hong Kong's Best Sights for Every Budget, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=X5DQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR8:

In the far east of the island, Shek O is Hong Kong's most remote and exclusive settlement – house numbers on Shek O Road refer not to location but to when the owner became a member of the golf club and therefore allowed to build there.

2017, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia On A Budget, Penguin, →ISBN:

Shek O, not far from Big Wave Bay, is almost Mediterranean in aspect. A wide beach with shops and restaurants nearby, it has refreshment kiosks, barbecue pits, lifeguards, swimming rafts, playgrounds, changing rooms, showers, and toilets.

If feeling a little tender in the morning and not up for a big climb, you can get a double decker bus to Stanley or opt for the flat walk, which snakes around the hills rather than going up and down. Dragon's Back hike in Shek O is another great alternative and better for those travelling with children.

2013 February 1, Farah Master, “Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Hong Kong for festive fun”, in Elaine Lies, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Lifestyle:


Cape D'Aguilar

Named after George Charles d'Aguilar, first Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong.

Just 10 kilometres in a straight line from Admiralty, Cape D’Aguilar is unforgettable. The southeastern tip of Hong Kong Island, it is one of the territory’s loveliest coastal settings.

1999, Edward Stokes, “The Countryside”, in Exploring Hong Kong's Countryside: A Visitor's Companion, 1st English edition, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Tourist Association, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2:

When Sunday afternoon rolls around and Monday looms on the horizon, beat the blues with a hike to Cape D’Aguilar. With its proximity to the city and sweeping sea views this hike above Shek O beach is perfect for beginners and families.

2021 December 11, Teele Rebane, “HKFP Guide: Hong Kong’s Cape d’Aguilar – easy hiking with historical curios and sweeping sea views”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2022-01-07, HKFP VENTURE:

A cape in Shek O, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Tai Tam

Local historians have launched a search for the family of a British sailor who fought to defend Hong Kong from the Japanese during the second world war, after his Royal Navy ID tag was found on a mountainside in Tai Tam.

2015 February 8, Hazel Parry, “ID tag found in Tai Tam sparks search for family of wartime British sailor”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-15, Hong Kong:

While Suen’s Facebook profile indicates that he emigrated to Vancouver with his wife years ago, a post dated April 17, 2016 expressed “a minor regret that we cannot stay in Tai Tam” during a short April visit back to Hong Kong.

2016 June 9, “Former official and wealthy businessmen ‘squatting’ gov’t land in prized Tai Tam area”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-12, Hong Kong:

“BECAUSE HONG KONG IS INCREDIBLY SAFE and has so much to offer in terms of everything from sports to culture, children start doing very sophisticated things from a young age,” says Chipman, who lives in the Southern district of Tai Tam and sent his children to the Hong Kong International School. “Education is very seriously emphasized and valued in Hong Kong.”

(Can we date this quote?), “Living the Hong Kong Dream”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-28, Paid Post:

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Tai Tam, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Big Wave Bay

Calque of Cantonese 大浪灣 /大浪湾 (daai⁶ long⁶ waan¹). Doublet of Tai Long Wan.

The red flag flies often at Big Wave Bay (on the south side of Hong Kong Island) because of the rough surf.[…]
Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong's most accessible surfing beach, lives up to its name and is frequently closed for swimming as a result.[…]
Shek O, not far from Big Wave Bay, is almost Mediterranean in aspect.

The most popular section of the 31-mile Hong Kong Trail, Dragon’s Back is in Shek O Country Park, located on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island. Its seven miles includes the undulating ridge — the dragon’s back — between Shek O Peak and Wan Cham Shan. The ridge overlooks the South China Sea and the hike ends at the quaint enclave of Tai Long Wan, “Big Wave Bay,” which is popular with both surfers and swimmers.

2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-07-08, Travel:

Residents of the coastal villages of Shek O and Big Wave Bay were cut off from the city for the second time in a week, after Thursday morning’s rainfall washed away emergency repair works along the only road providing access to the area.

2023 September 14, Mercedes Hutton, “Heavy rainfall halts schools in Hong Kong, as Shek O Road closed again after emergency repair works washed away”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-03-08, Hong Kong:

An area in Shek O, Southern district, Hong Kong.

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Shek O, Southern district, Hong Kong.


Mount Parker

Named after Sir William Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy).

named-after

Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone

Church members climb up to “Jacob's Ladder” on Mount Parker at Hong Kong's Quarry Bay to pray for peace and harmony in the city.

1993 June 1, Jinbong Kim, Dwight P. Baker, J. Nelson Jennings, Megachurch Accountability in Missions:: Critical Assessment through Global Case Studies, William Carey Publishing, →ISBN, page 79:

A picture caption on Feb. 2 with an article about hiking in Hong Kong misstated the location of the trail shown. It is on Mount Parker, overlooking Quarry Bay on the northeast side of the island - not on the Dragon's Back ridge on the D'Aguilar Peninsula to the southeast.

2003 February 16, “Corrections”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-02:

The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.

2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

The battalion moved quickly inland, ascending the north-facing slopes of Mount Parker. There are still old stepped paths that lead up from that part of the Island shore to the heights of Mount Parker.

2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=cPSiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137:

Rubble and water rushed down the side of Mount Parker near Chai Wan, where roads and parking garages sat under standing water. Huge rocks blocked roads in Shau Kei Wan.

2023 September 7, Meaghan Tobin, “Extreme rain in Hong Kong turns city streets into raging rivers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-27, Asia:


Happy Valley

Like much in Hong Kong, Sybil's apartment mingles a certain glamour -- old Chinese furniture and Asian textiles -- with a cold-water-only galley kitchen shared with ants and a plump gecko. Besides mastering its intricacies, I had to shop and do laundry and other errands in Happy Valley, which is where Hong Kong began to insinuate itself into my affections.
Happy Valley is, as Sybil puts it, ex-pat- friendly, and has been since the 1840's, when the British carved out a racetrack in the swampy north-central part of Hong Kong Island.

2001 April 1, Katherine Ashenburg, “In Hong Kong, the Heart Grows Fonder”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, Travel:

For decades, the Hindu cemetery in Happy Valley, tucked behind the community’s large temple on Wong Nai Chung Road, had fallen into disrepair.

2021 March 28, Rhea Mogul, “Hong Kong volunteers turn out to restore Happy Valley’s historic Hindu cemetery”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-03-28, Hong Kong:

A residential area in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.


Wong Nai Chung Gap

Adam had slammed down the telephone receiver and immediately given the order to abandon their position. Brigade Headquarters was at the Wong Nei Chung Gap, and the gap stood on high ground in the virtual centre of the island. If it fell into the hands of the Japanese, then they would have achieved a terrible tactical advantage.

[1988, Margaret Pemberton, chapter 12, in The Last Goodbye, Severn House, published 2007, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200:

The Japanese intended to slice through the Wong Nai Chung Gap to Repulse Bay and cut Hong Kong Island, and the British defences, in half.

2013 September 2, Mark Felton, “Christmas in Hell”, in China Station: The British Militry in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 133:

Moving southward along Sir Cecil's Ride, the 230 Rgt. unwittingly went straight into Wong Nai Chung Gap.

2014 July 1, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 198:

Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941.

2016 December 23, Lam Yik Fei, “World - Image”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

Wong Nai Chung Gap was a saddle through which the main road running north–south passed through the line of hills on the Island. On the north side of the gap there was a steep valley.

2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

These troops then reached Wong Nai Chung Gap, which separated Hong Kong Island into eastern and western halves . Jardine's Lookout was held by HKVDC No. 3 Company , reinforced by troops from the Winnipeg Grenadiers .

2022 February 10, Associate Professor of History Chi Man Kwong, Chi Man Kwong, Hong Kongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860-1997, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

A hill pass in Eastern district, Hong Kong.


Ma Wan

Mah-wan (alternative)
Mawan (alternative)

The developers, a group of Hong Kong construction professionals, said work would start on the park, on Ma Wan island, in late 2001, and will be completed in 2003.

2000 November 26, “BUSINESS: DIARY; Ski Hong Kong (You Read It Right)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-07-17:

In the post, Tam said that it had been more difficult to serve the residents of Ma Wan and Tsuen Wan, even though he received help from other district councillors and his team.[…]
Correction 23.8.2021: A previous version of this article stated that Roy Tam resigned from the Ma Wan District Council. He resigned from the Ma Wan constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council.

2021 April 21, Candice Chau, “Another democrat quits Hong Kong district council seat over new gov’t allegiance oath”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-10-27, Hong Kong:

Ma Wan, an island between Lantau and Tsing Yi in Hong Kong, is best known today for the Park Island residential development.

2022 March 21, Stuart Heaver, “The little island that could have been Hong Kong, but for a British naval officer’s bad weather day 230 years ago”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-20, Travel & Leisure:

An island in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

When I went there I couldn't find the main road to the village. Afterwards, I just asked some people to direct me to the village and lucky I find some people who can give me the right direction. The first person was really helpful and he gave me plenty of information about Ma Wan.

2019 April 30, Albert Wilson, Big Al Travel Companion: A Companion for You Getting the Best Values in Your Discovery into Festival, Culture, Food and Many Others, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

A village in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

A rural committee in Tsuen Wan district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Tsim Sha Tsui

From Cantonese 尖沙咀 /尖沙嘴 (zim¹ saa¹ zeoi²).

Tsimshatsui (alternative)
Chim Sha Tsui (alternative)

This arrangement will, however, be found to be of very little use until the Observatory is placed in direct communication with the telegraph offices in Hong Kong, as the connections between the police stations generally break down in bad weather,[…]
In the course of the summer of 1884 the writer invented and started a system of meteorological signals, which continue to be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball tower at Tsim-sha-tsui.

[1886 December 9, Dr. W. Doberck, “The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas”, in Nature, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 139, column 1:

Think of Tsimshatsui and you think shopping! This is Kowloon's internationally renowned shopping district, where anything can be bought at the right price.

[2003, Fiona Campbell, “Finding a Home”, in Setting Up in Hongkong: A Relocation Guidebook for Expatriates, 6th edition, FDC Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 84:

But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.

2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit:

Saturday’s march — the ninth weekend of sustained protests — deviated from a route authorized by police and went into the tourist-heavy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, which looks onto Victoria Harbor.[…]
Tsim Sha Tsui is where dozens of Hong Kong’s luxury hotels and malls are located and is popular with foreign tourists.

2019 August 3, Shibani Mahtani, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong protests spill into tourist district with tear gas and arrests”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-03, Asia & Pacific:

The march ended in violent exchanges, with Hong Kong police firing tear gas canisters at protesters from inside a police station in Tsim Sha Tsui.

2019 October 20, “Clashes as fresh anti-government protests hit Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-10-20, NEWS:

Shop rents on the upper section of Fifth Avenue in New York remain the dearest in the world, with the average up 7 per cent this year to $2,000 per sq ft. Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong, is the second most expensive area, with rents of $1,436 per sq ft.

2022 November 23, Tom Howard, “New Bond Street rents slip in 2022”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-23, Business:

Onlookers flocked to the waterfront neighborhood of Tsim Sha Tsui to take in the spectacle, as the flames made their way through the skyscraper and the scaffolding around it and explosions pierced the air.

2023 March 2, “Hong Kong Skyscraper Is Engulfed in Flames”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-02:

An area in Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Yau Ma Tei

From Cantonese 油麻地 /油蔴地 (jau⁴ maa⁴ dei⁶⁻²).

Yaumatei (alternative)
Yaumati (alternative)
Yau Ma Ti (alternative)

The contract has been let for the construction of a breakwater to provide a harbor of refuge for Hongkong’s shipping. This breakwater will extend 3 300 feet from a point near the Asiatic Petroleum Co.’s tanks at Tai-Kok-Tsui to a point opposite the Yau-ma-tei police station with an opening at one end of 400 feet.

[1910 November, “Hongkong's Typhoon Shelter”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume VII, number 6, →OCLC, page 216, column 1:

For Sheung Wan and Wanchai census districts on Hong Kong Island (Fig. 3) gross densities of 963 and 846 per aere were recorded, while the densities of population for the Yau Ma Tei and Mongkok districts of Kowloon were 568 and 545 per acre.

1971, D. J. Dwyer, “Introduction”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, Asian Urbanization: A Hong Kong Casebook [亞洲都市化:概况香港個案研究], Hong Kong University Press, →OCLC, pages 2-3:

亞洲都市化:概况香港個案研究

This doesn’t detract from the fun of bargaining at the variety of Hong Kong’s night markets (those who don’t like to haggle should stay away) that often thrum with shoppers till midnight. The best in town are the Ladies’ Market, for inexpensive women’s clothing, bags, and accessories, and the Temple Street Night Market, for an astonishing selection of everything from clothes and CDs to luggage and shoes—even fortune tellers—at the Yau Ma Tei end of the street.

2011, Patricia Schultz, “Hong Kong”, in 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, 2nd edition, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489, column 2:

On the other hand, boutique newcomers such as the Upper House, Kerry, Pottinger and Stage are shaking things up. I stayed at the Stage, near Nathan Road in bustling Yau Ma Tei, and — once I was over the initial shock that it sits next to a motorway flyover — fell for its aesthetically sleek charms and artsy vibe.

2017 July 1, Will Hide, “Hong Kong: hip hotels and gourmet food”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-30, China:

Police said that 289 people had been arrested, mostly for unlawful assembly. One woman was arrested in the Kowloon district of Yau Ma Tei on charges of assault and spreading pro-independence slogans, the police department said on its Facebook page. It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.

2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Asia & Pacific:

Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday that the lockdown had been a success and added that more could be forthcoming; officials announced one in nearby Yau Ma Tei soon after.

2021 January 26, Vivian Wang, Tiffany May, “Hong Kong’s First Covid-19 Lockdown Exposes Deep-Rooted Inequality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-26:


Yau Tsim Mong

c. 1990s, merger of two districts, Yau Tsim district and Mong Kok district. Ultimately from the first syllables of the three major areas in the district: Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Mong Kok.

The decline of the DP’s success rate was attributable to a number of factors, including (1) the shift of some DP incumbents to competition in other geographical constituencies, (2) the mutual distrust between some DP candidates and the local residents, and (3) the strong performance of the opponents of the DP candidates, especially the DAB candidates.³ Examples showing the failure of DP incumbents changing their constituencies included Ng Wing-fai in Yau Tsim Mong district and Ho Suk-ping in the Shatin district.⁴

2002, Shiu-hing Lo, Wing-yat Yu, Kwok-fai Wan, “The 1999 District Councils Elections”, in Ming K. Chan, Alvin Y. So, editors, Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141:

A company in Hong Kong’s southern Yau Tsim Mong District is at the forefront of Cung Le’s dispute with the UFC over drug testing.
The Hong Kong Functional Medical Testing Center (HKFMTC) resides in Hong Kong’s southern Yau Tsim Mong District, about an hour’s ferry ride from the Macau’s Cotai Arena where August’s UFC Fight Night 48 was held.

2014 October 7, Steven Marrocco, “UFC remains steadfast in Cung Le's test result, but lab failed to meet WADA criteria”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-12:

Mr. Ip, who was the chairman of the Yau Tsim Mong district council, became a target of protesters in July after he blocked debate on the extradition bill that incited the protests this summer.

2019 November 25, Austin Ramzy, Tiffany May, Katherine Li, Elaine Yu, “Here’s What 5 of Hong Kong’s Newly Elected Politicians Have to Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-11-25:

Bista Gandendra Limbu, 31, a Nepali who came to Hong Kong when he was 2, said the Yau Tsim Mong area, the first to come under a 48-hour lockdown last month, is a “mini Kathmandu,” fueling impressions that the entire Nepali community is carrying the virus.

2021 February 11, Theodora Yu, Shibani Mahtani, “Wave of coronavirus cases brings a tide of racism in Hong Kong”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-11, Asia & Pacific:


Sham Shui Po

Another proposal some years ago was for a line to be constructed from Canton to Sham-shui-po near the Cosmopolitan Docks in British territory, on the mainland opposite Hongkong.

[1900, J. Dyer Ball, “Railways”, in Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China, 3rd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 506:

The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.

2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-11:

Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-25:

Once largely insulated from the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong is facing a citywide outbreak, with businesses buckling and some losing patience with the government's "zero COVID" policies.
In the cluster of working-class districts in nearby Sham Shui Po, some residential blocks and public housing estates have been sealed off, crowds in malls and street markets have thinned, and once teeming diners known as dai pai dongs and stalls selling knick-knacks are quieter after dark.

2022 February 18, James Pomfret, Joyce Zhou, “Hong Kong working-class district reels as COVID runs rampant”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Karishma Singh, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-02-18, Asia Pacific:

On Au’s rooftop in the gentrifying neighborhood of Sham Shui Po, the metal hut traps heat inside the 300-square-foot space.

2022 September 12, Theodora Yu, Louise Delmotte, “Climate change in Hong Kong worsens housing crisis for city’s poor”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-12, World:

A person takes a rest on a hill in Sham Shui Po district, with public housing in the background, during the summer heat in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023.

2023 October 13, Louise Delmotte, “AP PHOTOS: Hong Kong’s hottest summer fell hardest on most vulnerable”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-10-13, Climate:

An area in Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Tai Kok Tsui

Analysts said Sun Hung Kai had pre-sold several projects since the beginning of the year, including One Regent Place in Yuen Long, Avignon in Tuen Mun and Imperial Cullinan in Tai Kok Tsui, which would contribute substantially to the earnings in 2011/12.

2011 September 15, Joy Leung, Alison Leung, “SHK Properties annual core profit up 55 pct”, in Chris Lewis, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2024-01-12, Markets:

A construction elevator shaft on top of a housing development project in Tai Kok Tsui fell onto the roof of a nearby building during typhoon Mangkhut on Sunday.

2018 September 16, Kris Cheng, “Video: Construction elevator shaft falls from building as typhoon Mangkhut rips through Hong Kong”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-10-12, Hong Kong:

Every day, dozens of people post photos of their lunchbox, along with notes: The pork chops at a shop in the Prince Edward neighborhood were cold today, or the staff at this one in Tai Kok Tsui are especially friendly.

2022 May 2, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, “In Epicurean Hong Kong, a Humble $4 Lunchbox Is Now All the Rage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-02, Asia Pacific:


Cheung Sha Wan

From Cantonese 長沙灣 /长沙湾 (coeng⁴ saa¹ waan¹⁻⁴).

bor

A government-run affordable-housing development in Hong Kong’s Cheung Sha Wan district. Critics of the city’s government say officials want to avoid building more.

2019 July 22, Alexandra Stevenson, Jin Wu, “Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-22, Asia Pacific:

Lam was one of dozens of patients lying in the parking lot of Caritas on Thursday, after there was no more room inside the hospital that serves 400,000 people in the working-class district of Cheung Sha Wan on the Kowloon peninsula. Temperatures dipped to 15 degrees Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) amid some rain.

After all, Hong Kong’s builders have already started resorting to price cuts to boost their sales. Earlier this month, CK Asset Holdings Ltd. slashed its offerings by as much as 18% at Seaside Sonata in Cheung Sha Wan.

2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Business:


Hung Hom

But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.

2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit:

A smaller protest in Hung Hom, a district of outlet stores popular with mainland tourists, highlighted the growing tension between Hong Kong people and their mainland compatriots with protesters chanting, “Kick out the mainland tourists!”

2019 August 18, Stephen Vines, “Hong Kong to defy ban on protest as fear of crackdown looms”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-25:

Riot police entered the campus of the Polytechnic University in Hung Hom in the early hours of Monday morning following an almost day-long battle between demonstrators and police.

2019 November 18, “HKFP Lens: Hong Kong PolyU engulfed in fierce police-protester battles, as officers enter campus”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-02-17:

An area in Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Kowloon Tong

From Cantonese 九龍塘 /九龙塘 (gau² lung⁴ tong⁴).

At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.

2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-06-05, Asia Pacific:

The plot, located in the high-end neighbourhood of Kowloon Tong, has a site area of about 11,300 square metres, with a maximum gross floor area of about 40,500 square metres.

2018 January 16, Venus Wu, Joy Leung, “Hong Kong's Wharf Holdings sets new record for land in prime area”, in Jacqueline Wong, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-01-16, Markets:

Personnel on the roof of the barracks of the People’s Liberation Army in the Kowloon Tong neighborhood raised a yellow flag warning marchers they were breaking the law and could be prosecuted — the first time protesters have elicited a reaction from the Chinese military.

2019 October 6, Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, “Ignoring a ban on face masks, masked Hong Kongers march in huge numbers”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-07, Asia & Pacific:

A residential area in Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Ho Man Tin

Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.

2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere:

“Forgive me, the book you're reading ... Do you ... did you find it in Hong Kong?”
“Yes,” I replied. “At a second-hand place in Ho Man Tin. Have you read it?”

2016, Claire North, chapter 39, in The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Orbit Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

The plot, in the Kowloon neighbourhood of Ho Man Tin, sold for HK$6.4 million ($823,204) to a company owned by Goldin Financial Holdings Ltd.

2016 March 2, “Hong Kong residential plot sells for higher price than forecast”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-04-20, Financials:

Inspector MacLennan was to be arrested on the morning of 15 January 1980 on eight counts of gross indecency. An arrest party went to his quarters in Ho Man Tin.

2022, Stuart Wolfendale, “Two Reports”, in More When I Know You Better: The Life of Albert Sanguinetti, 1923–2009, City University of Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:

Live rounds were used twice during the 2019 protests and unrest. And in March 2009, Dil Bahadur Limbu – an unarmed Nepalese man – was shot dead by a policeman in Ho Man Tin. The incident caused a public outcry among the South Asian community after a coroner ruled his death was “a lawful killing.”

2023 January 27, Hillary Leung, “NGO raises questions over ‘racial and cultural insensitivity’ as Filipino man shot by Hong Kong police charged with assault”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-10-08, Hong Kong:

Police believe the accused men planned the killing because Choi was going to sell a luxury property in the exclusive community of Kadoorie Hill in Ho Man Tin.

2023 February 27, Didi Tang, “Abby Choi: Missing Hong Kong model’s skull found in soup pot”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-27:


Belcher Bay

On the Hong Kong side, the new Smithfield link at Pokfulam will connect Belcher Bay in Kennedy Town into Sai Ying Pun and the tunnel entrance. A series of specially constructed bridges will provide fast access to the Central business district, Wan Chai and North Point.

1997 April 30, “Opening keeps territory on the road to success”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-16, Latest:

The pier area has become particularly popular since it links a newly opened recreation area at Belcher Bay with the harbourfront promenade which extends to Central and Wanchai.[…]
Instead, the department said members of the public could visit other waterfront areas flanking the pier, including the Belcher Bay harbourfront and the Central & Western District Promenade.

2021 March 2, Rhoda Kwan, “Hong Kong’s popular ‘Instagram Pier’ closes to the public without notice”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-11-23, Hong Kong:

Central and Western
Central and Western#English

A bay of Hong Kong Island in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Morrison Hill

Where today are Caroline Hill, East Point Hill, and Morrison Hill on which Hong Kong's first western school was built? Where are the bays which formerly indented the coastline of Hong Kong?

1967, Gwenneth Stokes, The Extreme East: A Modern History:

East of Morrison Hill and the rice paddies of Belcher Valley (named after himself by a rather conceited Captain Edward Belcher) were the godowns of the Jardine-Matheson company, situated roughly where the modern Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay now stands.

2007, Michael Anthony Ingham, Mike Ingham, “"Suzie's World": from Wan Chai to Happy Valley”, in Hong Kong: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

Hong Kong's most renowned European brothel operated during the interwar years just across from Morrison Hill, at the far end of Queen's Road East, run by a stately lady of shadowy origins named Ethel Morrison - it was rumoured that she took her professional surname from the hill across the way.

2009 July 11, Jason Wordie, “Out and about”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-14:

When the project began, workers delivered the earth from Morrison Hill to the reclamation using small trucks that they pushed by hand.

2018 December 1, David Bellis, Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, volume 2, Gwulo, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 104:

A hill in Wan Chai, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.


Wan Chai Gap

The southern anchor moves from Wong Nai Chung Gap to Mount Nicholson, then Mount Cameron, and finally Wan Chai Gap and a little west. Further south is the 'central sector'.

2003 February 1, Tony Banham, Not the Slightest Chance: The Defence of Hong Kong, 1941, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 19:

The assortment of hikes radiating from Wan Chai Gap, in the middle of Hong Kong Island, ranges from flat Bowen Road to steep Wan Chai Gap Road. Wan Chai Gap gives you access to all of Aberdeen Country Park with its beautiful reservoirs and diverse trails.

2005 January 1, Alicia M. Kershaw, Ginger Thrash, Above The City: Hiking Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

Runners had a fun day out in Friday's HKLRRC Boxing Day Race at Wan Chai Gap with most of the participants dressed up in costumes and braving the chilly weather.

2014 December 26, Richard Castka, “Runners brave chilly weather in Boxing Day Run”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-25, Sport:

West Group, RA, under Major Crowe evacuated their HQ at Wan Chai Gap and established a new HQ at Victoria Gap.

2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

Peak Road is less than four kilometres in length, beginning near the Police Museum at Wan Chai Gap and terminating adjacent to Peak Tower.

2015 July 17, Eric Cheung, “Hong Kong’s Peak Road the most expensive street in the world – survey”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-09-28:

A mountain pass in Wan Chai, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.


Magazine Gap

From magazine (“ammunition storehouse”) + gap.

compound

Every winter, the birds move south to the city for warmer weather, food and shelter. The society estimates there are 1,300 black kites in Hong Kong. Magazine Gap in Mid-Levels alone is home to 800.

2011 January 12, Jennifer Lo, “Where eagles nest”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-03:

At 1330 hours 23rd December communication was re-established with HQ West Infantry Brigade at Magazine Gap and it was learnt that about 250 enemy were round St. Albert's Convent, that our troops on the Northern slopes of Mount Cameron were withdrawing and that Magazine Gap and Wanchai Gap were being heavily bombed.

2015, John Grehan, Martin Mace, Disaster in the Far East 1940-1942, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:

Corrigan took his patrol up Coombe Road and reported to Lt-Col Frederick Field, RA, who was in charge of troops at Magazine Gap.

2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

The main route between Victoria Gap and Magazine Gap suffered severely, especially in the former area. Magazine Gap area, though continually shelled, fortunately suffered less and little damage was done to the cables, though subsidiary routes suffered…

2020, Victor S. Ient, These Valiant Men: The Story of Eight British Servicemen in World War II in the Far East, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 16:

It was at the top of Magazine Gap Road. The house was in a very exposed position, close to Magazine Gap, in an area that was subject to frequent shelling. Surprisingly, the house and its detached garage still remain.

2022, Philip Cracknell, The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=d3CJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT53:

A mountain pass in Mid-Levels, Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Leighton Hill

The erection of the following houses for senior officers was completed:-Two blocks each of four houses at Leighton Hill, three houses on Severn Road, one house for the Puisne Judge, and one house for a senior engineer, and, in addition, two contracts were let for two additional blocks of three houses each at Leighton Hill, and for one block containing six flats and four detached houses on the Homestead site, respectively.

1922, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Colonial Reports - Annual, page 17:

The remnants of the Grenadiers held Mt. Cameron, the Royal Scots held Stubbs Road facing Middle Gap and the northern slopes of Mt. Nicholson, the Punjabis, only 35 strong, held the Filter Beds and two weak platoons of the Rajputs, with elements of 1st Middlesex, from Leighton Hill to the western side of Causeway Bay.

1956, Francis Albert Eley Crew, The Army Medical Services: Campaigns, page 20:

A residential site at Leighton Hill in Causeway Bay is expected to sell for more than $3 billion when tenders close on Friday.

1998 April 15, Peggy Sito, Sandy Li, “Leighton Hill plum to point the way”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-13:

After taking Bennet's Hill and Leighton Hill, the troops facing the West Brigade would all push westward with the goal of taking, on Christmas Day, the high ground northwest of Wan Chai Gap[…]

2014 July 1, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 216:


So Kon Po

Not far from here in So Kon Po is the new Hong Kong Stadium, completed in 1994, where the annual International Rugby Sevens tournament in March brings in visitors from all over the world.

2007 June 18, Michael Ingham, Hong Kong: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

Miura was cremated in the Japanese crematorium at So Kon Po. A local historian has been in contact with his descendants back in Japan who provided photographs of Miura and his assistants in Hong Kong, and expressed amazement that his grave still existed in the Cemetery.

2011 February 1, Patricia Lim, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 525:

At the end of the year, in recognition of the fact that the villagers of Wong Nai Chung and So Kon Po had nothing to do, the Surveyor General issued a proclamation assuring them that contractors would consider them first 'when employing coolies on government works'.

2013 December 16, Christopher Munn, Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:

The Race Course Fire Memorial, which is located on the hillside above the present Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po near Causeway Bay, was erected in 1922 to commemorate the victims of a disastrous fire which broke out at the Happy Valley Racecourse in February 26, 1918.

2015 October 23, Karen Cheung, “Three locations including ‘High Street Haunted House’ declared as monuments”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-15, Community & Education, Hong Kong:


Middle Gap

While moving there they came under heavy fire from Doi's men on the hill and had to be withdrawn to Middle Gap, where they spent the night exposed to pouring rain and a cold wind – a cheerless prelude to a dawn attack.

1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 137:

The Japanese tunnels were crude, carved out of the hills. Mr Bruce said one could be found along the path running from Middle Gap to Middle Gap Road, another on a path near Queen Mary Hospital.

1997 June 1, “The secret sites of an underground war”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03:

The vehicle had been boosted from the public car park up at Middle Gap on the Peak of Hong Kong Island and kept out of sight in a lock-up garage in Kennedy Town until darkness fell.

2013 April 4, Steven Griffiths, In Gwan-Dai's Name, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Middle Gap is about halfway along Black's Link. It is the gap between Mount Cameron on the right and Mount Nicholson on the left. After passing Middle Gap, the righthand side of the track opens up while the left-hand side is protected by the slopes of Mount Nicholson.

2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=cPSiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT262:

A mountain pass in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.


Shek Pai Wan

From Cantonese 石排灣 /石排湾 (sek⁶ paai⁴ waan¹).

Adjoining Heung Gong Jai there was a walled village known as Heung Gong Wai, and next to it another village called Shek Pai Wan. Shek Pai Wan is now integrated into modern Aberdeen.

2007, Michael Ingham, Hong Kong: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 139:

An area in Aberdeen, Southern district, Hong Kong.

The path continues from here for a kilometre or so to the bigger beach at Shek Pai Wan on the southeastern coast, and then to Tung O, a minute settlement famous as the childhood home of Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-fat.

2019, David Leffman, Jules Brown, “Hong Kong guide”, in The Rough Guide to Hong Kong & Macau, Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 165:

And last November, the fans of Mirror’s Jeremy Lau – better known as “Jer” – celebrated his birthday with an exhibition of artwork and an excursion to clean up Shek Pai Wan beach on Lamma Island.

2022 May 21, Peter Lee, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, tram or billboard: Hong Kong superfans reflect their devotion”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Hong Kong:

A bay of Lamma, Islands district, Hong Kong.


Victoria Gap

From Victoria + gap, from Victoria Peak, ultimately named after Queen Victoria.

The Peak Hotel is situated at Victoria Gap, about 1,400 feet above the sea, and provides extensive accommodation on a most luxurious scale.

1899, The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c, page 278:

In the course of its journey from Garden Road to the Upper Terminus at Victoria Gap, the tram, like any neighborhood commuter train, stops - or more accurately hesitates - at Barker, Bowen, Macdonnell, Kennedy and May Road Stations.

1986 November 16, Sally Hassan, “A PARI OF HONG KONG CLASSICS”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-24, Section 10, page 9:

Thus, Peak Hotel owner and Scotsman Alexander Findlay Smith, planned to open up the area with a new tram system to connect Victoria Gap to Murray Barracks.[…]
On its opening day, a local journalist wrote that “there is nothing to cause the least of nervousness and the car rises smoothly and steadily to the Victoria Gap.”

2015 November 13, Hong Wrong, “HKFP History: A brief visual history of Hong Kong’s Peak Tram”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-12-30, Travel & Transport:

West Group, RA, under Major Crowe evacuated their HQ at Wan Chai Gap and established a new HQ at Victoria Gap.

2019, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

The main route between Victoria Gap and Magazine Gap suffered severely, especially in the former area. Magazine Gap area, though continually shelled, fortunately suffered less and little damage was done to the cables, though subsidiary routes suffered…

2020, Victor S. Ient, These Valiant Men: The Story of Eight British Servicemen in World War II in the Far East, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 16:

The line, connecting Murray Barracks to Victoria Gap, was opened by Governor Sir George William des Voeux in 1888

2021 June 11, Tracey Furniss, “The Peak Tram, an old Hong Kong icon: taking millions of tourists a year to Victoria Peak, what can we expect from its sixth and latest upgrade since opening in 1888?”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-11, Leisure:

A mountain pass in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


Tai Ping Shan

Tai Ping Shan (peace mountain) is, strictly speaking, not a mountain but a hillside district in Victoria situated to the south of Sheung Wan between Queen's Road and Caine Road.

2012, Qizhang Dong, “The Curse of Tai Ping Shan”, in Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76:

The committee recommended that if the Chinese moved to Tai Ping Shan, which would be leveled with streets marked out, they would have their arrears of rent excused and would enjoy a “rent holiday” for a period of five years, as well as $50 compensation.

2018, Moira M W Chan-Yeung, “The Reluctant Birth of Medical Services in Hong Kong”, in A Medical History of Hong Kong: 1842–1941, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

The cafe is atypically roomy, and a lovely place to pause after browsing the nearby Tai Ping Shan area. It's also popular for brunch.

2019, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Pocket Hong Kong, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page https://books.google.com/books?id=rRKbDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT181:

The international property consultancy Knight Frank noted in a May 2021 report: “With almost no overseas tourists because of travel restrictions and lockdowns, prime retail rents have declined by over 50%.” Thanks to this trend, the founders of Young Soy were able to procure their first space in an industrial building in the Ap Lei Chau neighborhood, while fellow newcomer 13a New Street Gallery opened up in the Tai Ping Shan neighborhood.

2023 March 22, Christy Choi, “Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22, Art & Design:

An area in Central and Western district, Hong Kong.


To Kwa Wan

From Cantonese 土瓜灣 (tou² gwaa¹ waan¹⁻⁴).

To Kwa Wan is an old area with most buildings constructed decades ago. Apart from blocks of flats, the area is criss-crossed by water pipes and gas pipes; the consequence if they were affected would be dire. Four gas pipes in the area have been affected by subsidence. A gas leak could cause an explosion just like four years ago in Taiwan. As a To Kwa Wan resident, I am concerned.

2018 August 14, “Hong Kong MTR must come clean on safety risks to assure To Kwa Wan residents”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-05, Letters:

The veteran 1a Space, in a former slaughterhouse in the To Kwa Wan area, organizes shows, residencies and a mentorship program for art critics, and is starting a performance festival.

2021 May 21, Andrew Russeth, “Expansive Thinking Sustains Hong Kong’s Independent Galleries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-21:

She inhabited an entirely different world than the one known to expats, starting out cloistered in a working-class area called To Kwa Wan on the Kowloon side of the harbor, where, she recalls, “I don’t recall ever running into a single white person.”

2022 February 11, Keith Richburg, “From a local and an expat, two stories of Hong Kong — and similar worries”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Feburary 2022, Outlook:

Hong Kong’s urban renewal body has announced plans for a HK$1 billion redevelopment in To Kwa Wan affecting 180 households and 20 stores.

2024 August 9, James Lee, “Hong Kong redevelopment body announces HK$1 billion To Kwa Wan redevelopment project”, in Hong Kong Free Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-09, Hong Kong:

An area in Kowloon City district, Hong Kong.


Kowloon Tsai

From Cantonese 九龍仔 /九龙仔 (gau² lung⁴ zai²).

Yonghua was founded in 1947 by Li Zuyong with assistance from Zhang Shankun to make Mandarin films in Hong Kong and was its first large-scale private enterprise film company; after creative differences about running the company, Zhang left in 1948; that same year, the company organized an artistic committee. The studio, first located at Kowloon Tsai, was managed by Lu Yuanliang, and was the largest and most modernized, state-of-the-art, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

2007, Lisa Odham Stokes, “Yonghua Film Company”, in Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 536:

Yau Yat Chuen’s stylish villas overlooked the shacks of Tai Hang Tung; to the east, a squatter camp in Kowloon Tsai was described as “intolerable” by British Labour Party MPs who visited in 1969. Shanty towns were prone to fire and both Kowloon Tsai and Tai Hang Tung eventually burned to the ground, their residents given shelter in resettlement estates.

2018 November 5, Christopher DeWolf, “Kowloon Tong history: Hong Kong’s original garden city and its unusual path”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-11-21, Travel & Leisure:

When the Hong Kong government developed the then-barren area of Kowloon Tsai into a residential area in the early 1950s, the streets were also named after English counties, such as Oxford Road (牛津道), Cambridge Road (劍橋道), and Durham Road (對衡道).

2023 August 27, Diana Pang, “Foreign Influence Part 3: Around the world in a day with Hong Kong’s street names”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, Hong Kong:

An area in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Lee Garden Hill

Ultimately named after Hong Kong businessman Lee Hysan (利希慎) (1879-1928).

named-after

Lee Hysan, a wealthy opium trader bought a piece of land on a hill (later known as the Lee Garden Hill) in the early 20s to be used for his business.

1993 July 3, Kevin Kwong, “The party's over for the friends of heartbreak hotel”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-13:

Early this century his grandfather — the famous Lee Hysan bought the entire hill which later became known as the Lee Garden Hill and established a base for the family in Hong Kong.

1997, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chinese University Bulletin:

The Mitsukoshi Department Store in Hennessy Centre, on the area of levelled Lee Garden Hill, 2006. The building was later rebuilt into Hysan Place.

2019 July 18, 鄭寶鴻, 香港歷史考察之旅：港島區 (overall work in Chinese), 商務印書館(香港)有限公司, →ISBN, page 189:

The Foolish Old Man's Hut Poetry Club, later known as North Hill Poetry Club, was established by Mok Hok-ming (莫鶴鳴) and Choi Jit-fu (蔡哲夫) at the residence of a deputy manager on Lee Garden Hill borrowed from Lee Hy-san (利希慎); it was disbanded in 1925.

2022 June 30, Hong Kong Chronicles Institute, Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview & Chronology, 聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）, →ISBN, page 190:

A hill in Causeway Bay, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.


Mount Butler

The first reached its objective but, attacked by superior numbers, was forced back next morning. The second found that the enemy was already holding Mount Butler and withdrew under heavy fire; the third held the road junction throughout the night despite heavy fire from Jardines Lookout.

1957, Stanley Woodburn Kirby, The War Against Japan: The loss of Singapore, page 131:

The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.

2014, Kwong Chi Man, Tsoi Yiu Lun, “The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941”, in Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

Responding to more orders from Maltby, who already seems to have been quite out of touch with reality, at about 0230 hours on the 19th Colonel Sutcliffe sent his A Company, under Major A.B. Gresham, to try and re-take the Lookout and make another attempt on Mount Butler.

2016, Brereton Greenhous, "C" Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, Dundurn, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

A typical day for her begins at 4:30 a.m., when she slips out of her employer’s apartment for a “sunrise jog,” a five-mile round-trip run to the summit of nearby Mount Butler, a 1,430-foot peak.

2019 May 25, Mary Hui, “‘Not Just a Maid’: The Ultra-Running Domestic Workers of Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-05-25, Asia Pacific:

First, there is a sharp descent, with the quarry on your left, then a steep set of stairs up to Mount Butler, which has a great view of its own. Head down Mount Butler and turn left down the wide tarmac road, which winds to Quarry Bay and finishes near exit A of the MTR.

2020 May 13, Mark Agnew, “The best hikes with views of Hong Kong – take in the skyline from a new and unique angle”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-14, Outdoor/Trail Running:


Wong Tai Sin

From Cantonese 黃大仙 /黄大仙 (wong⁴ daai⁶ sin¹, literally “great immortal Wong”).

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The term was popularized by a TV show called “Below the Lion Rock,” which first aired in the 1970s and explored the lives of working-class people in Hong Kong, particularly those who had fled mainland China to settle in the former British colony. The show depicted the lives of people living around Lion Rock in areas such as Wong Tai Sin and Kowloon City, known for their slums and dense public housing developments.

2014 October 23, “Pro-Democracy Banner Occupies Hong Kong’s Iconic Lion Rock, Spawns Memes”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 2019-12-05:

Officers also fired tear gas in the Wong Tai Sin area Saturday evening; the police said the action was a response to protesters obstructing roads and aiming laser pointers at officers.

2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “In Hong Kong Protests, Tear Gas and Violence End a Period of Calm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-24, Asia Pacific:

In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island’s steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.

2019 October 30, James Pomfret, Jessie Pang, “THE WINDOWS OF WONG TAI SIN”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-10-30:

In Wong Tai Sin, a lorry driver was beaten and kicked by a group of protesters after he tried to remove roadblocks while in Kai Tin, a woman was sprayed in the face with black paint after she got into an argument with protesters.

2019 November 11, Didi Tang, “Hong Kong protesters branded ‘people’s enemy’ after day of bloodshed”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-09:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Wong Tai Sin.

An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

In the 1995 Legco elections, DAB leader Tsang Yok-shing originally wished to compete with LP leader Allen Lee in Tai Po district. As a result of political compromise, Tsang decided not to run in Tai Po and opted for Wong Tai Sin district.

1997, Shiu-hing Lo, “Citizen Participation: From Pressure Groups to Political Parties”, in The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

The district of Wong Tai Sin to the north of Kowloon City is known for two things: its enormous and faceless housing estate and one of the most active and interesting temples in the territory.

2010, Andrew Stone, Piera Chan, Chung Wah Chow, “Neighbourhoods & Islands”, in Hong Kong & Macau City Guide (Lonely Planet), 14th edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114, column 1:

Located in Kowloon, with an area of 9.36 km², Wong Tai Sin is the only district in Hong Kong that is totally landlocked. It has a population of 420,183 (2011) and a high density of 44.891/km².

2020, Eunice Mei Feng Seng, Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=4mLcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT228, columns 1, 2:


Diamond Hill

Calque of Cantonese 鑽石山 /钻石山 (zyun³ sek⁶ saan¹, literally “stone-mining hill”).

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Hong Kong’s Diamond Hill was once home to a mix of gamblers, thugs and movie stars. Over the last 20 years, the government cleared away much of the squalor (and history) to make way for a subway stop, generic high-rise housing developments and the cacophonous Hollywood Plaza shopping center.

2010 February 24, Julie Makinen, “A Green and Gold Gem in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-04, In Transit:

After a brutal knife attack killed two women at a mall in Diamond Hill this month, Hong Kong police held a press conference which spelt out the shockingly indiscriminate nature of the assault.

2023 June 25, Lea Mok, “Series of knife attacks underscores mental health shortcomings in ‘happy Hong Kong’”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-06-25, Hong Kong:

An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Hong Kong.


San Po Kong

From Cantonese 新蒲崗 /新蒲岗 (san¹ pou⁴ gong¹).

Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.

1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21:

In the image presented was the look of a district: that of the industrial quarter in Hong Kong called San Po Kong.[…]
Massive sliding doors characterised these fearsome shops opening to the street. It was the pattern too with the other manufacturing premises continuing on along the narrow industrial thoroughfares of San Po Kong.

2014, Michael Bishton, chapter 1, in The Island, Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:

The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage.

2019 May 14, Donny Kwok, Shellin Li, Yilei Sun, “Tesla car catches fire in Hong Kong parking lot: media”, in James Pomfret, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-05-14, Technology News:

Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time.

2019 December 9, Christopher DeWolf, “Hong Kong neighbourhood where spark for 1967 riots was lit, San Po Kong once again playing role in protest – as host of talks on freedom, and humour in hard times”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-09, Travel & Leisure:


Ngau Chi Wan

From Cantonese 牛池灣 /牛池湾 (ngau⁴ ci⁴ waan¹).

Ngauchiwan (alternative)
Ngau Shi Wan (alternative)
Ngaushiwan (alternative)

Arising from a limited design competition, this winning scheme for residential accommodation at Ngau Chi Wan is located on a narrow strip of sloping land in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

2008, “Residental”, in Matt Davies, editor, P & T Group: 140 Years of Architecture in Asia (The Master Architect Series), The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:

With hindsight, the decision of Mildred and then her children to escape to Hong Kong was a no-brainer.[…]
They settled in a sordid shantytown known as Ngau Chi Wan, alongside thousands of other mainlanders.

2017, Scott Tong, “Lost and Found: Grandmother's Voice on Cassette”, in A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

It’s late afternoon in Bo Fuk, a neighbourhood cha chaan teng in the East Kowloon village of Ngau Chi Wan, and a crowd of regulars has assembled for tea. “We’ve been coming here for about 10 years,” says a man sitting with his son. Why? He laughs. “It’s cheap!”

2017 November 7, Christopher DeWolf, “The stories behind Hong Kong districts: Ngau Chi Wan and Choi Hung – from lively rural village to the first low-cost housing estate”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-10, Travel & Leisure:

At the Wan Luen Home for Elderly (Yen Chow Street) in Sham Shui Po – where at least four residents were earlier infected – employees who tested positive using rapid antigen tests waited for up to six days to be sent to a hospital, HK01 reported.
Residents at Choi Wan Elderly Home in Ngau Chi Wan also experienced similar delays.

2022 February 14, Hillary Leung, “‘It’s a mess’: Covid-19 cases at dozens of Hong Kong care homes as elderly quarantine facilities overwhelmed”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2022-03-10, Hong Kong:


Tsz Wan Shan

The exceptional vitality of Mongkok, the capital city of all this vast industrial territory, owes something—perhaps very much—to the comparative deprivation of Tsz Wan Shan.

1977, Frank Leeming, “Time, Place and Community in Hong Kong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 7:

He suffered hand injuries and was treated by an ambulance crew at the scene in Hong Kong's Tsz Wan Shan district on Saturday, the newspaper said.

2004 August 2, “World News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2004-10-13, World News, page 7:

Shum has been living alone in a property in Tsz Wan Shan following her husband’s death and her children’s marriages.

2015 June 19, Paul Benedict Lee, “Widow sues son over property ownership”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-07, Hong Kong, Law & Crime:

One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.

2020 August 18, “Empty spaces in Tsz Wan Shan amid Hong Kong’s third wave of coronavirus”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-06:


Kai Tak

Ultimately named after Kai Ho and Au Tak, the two original developers of the area.

The present airport, at Kai Tak, in Kowloon, which has one runway, will be closed when the new one opens.

1990 January 7, “TRAVEL ADVISORY”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-25, Travel:

Some residents of Kai Tak said they would consider organising protests, which would pose a significant headache for the government, and seeking a judicial review. They said the scheme ran contrary to plans to build a second central business district (CBD) in the area and could affect home prices.
"This is a matter of confidence in the government (planning)," said Cheung King-fan, a district councillor of Kai Tak area.

2023 February 10, Clare Jim, “Hong Kong's Lee faces stern test over $3.4 bln bid to ease housing shortage”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-02-10, Asia Pacific:

Members of the media gather at a land plot for light public housing in the Kai Tak area of Hong Kong, China, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. Hong Kong plans to spend about HK$26 billion ($3.3 billion) on temporary apartments to help reduce the wait times for public housing in one of the world’s most expensive real estate markets.

2023 February 22, Shuli Ren, “Hong Kong’s Penthouses Face China’s ‘Common Prosperity’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-16, Business:


Kowloon Bay

The nearest neighborhoods — Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay — are somewhat rundown, and until planned public transportation connections are completed in the coming years, the terminal building’s rooftop gardens will be tough for ordinary visitors to reach.

2013 June 11, Bettina Wassener, “Hong Kong's Old Airport Reopens as a Cruise Ship Terminal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-06-11:

At 8:39 a.m. last Friday, the 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong, was as busy as always.

2015 October 6, Yanan Wang, “A homeless woman who died in McDonald’s was among Hong Kong’s legions of ‘McRefugees’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-06:

An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.


Kwun Tong

From Cantonese 官塘 (gun¹ tong⁴) or an earlier equivalent.

The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.

2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-24, Asia Pacific:

The construction of the fountain in the city’s Kwun Tong district went ahead despite the district council passing a motion to halt the project last year.

2021 April 26, Candice Chau, “Water margins: Hong Kong music fountain with a HK$50 million price tag opens to underwhelmed public”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2023-09-15:

During her 38-year tenure, Winnie Poon made history as the first popularly elected female council member in Kwun Tong district and witnessed the councils become more democratic.

2023 December 7, KANIS LEUNG, “Hong Kong’s new election law thins the candidate pool, giving voters little option in Sunday’s polls”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-12-08, World News:


Ngau Tau Kok

From Cantonese 牛頭角 /牛头角 (ngau⁴ tau⁴ gok³).

An old Hakka woman, who was married into the Hakka stone-cutters’ settlement of Ngau Tau Kok in East Kowloon at the age of 9 in 1897, recalls that her sister-in-law bought hemp in Kowloon City market and brought it home to weave, took it back to Kowloon Street to be dyed and later brought it back to the village to make into clothes for the family. Making bedclothes and mosquito nets was also mentioned. Most items were dyed black in colour. Her husband’s family were Hakkas from near Taàm-shui and they had then been in Ngau Tau Kok for three generations.

1983, James Hayes, “Itinerant Weavers and the Cultivation of Hemp and Indigo”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 189-190:

Deep in the working-class housing district of Ngau Tau Kok, Mr. Tong and his three officers were exasperated. They had visited 10 likely sites for sellers of pirated music CD's but had come up empty-handed.

1995 February 27, Edward A. Gargan, “Pirate's Bazaar Thrives in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, Business Day, page 1:

The inferno at the Amoycan Industrial Centre in Ngau Tau Kok was brought under control at 7.38pm, more than 80 hours after it broke out on Tuesday, killing two firefighters over two days.

2016 June 24, Christy Leung, Emily Tsang, Phila Siu, “Killer Ngau Tau Kok fire tamed after 80 hours”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-06-26, Law and Crime:

The first phase of LPH scheme includes projects on Yau Pok Road in Yuen Long and Choi Hing Road in Ngau Tau Kok, with units available from the first quarter of 2025.

2024 July 15, James Lee, “Hong Kong ‘light public housing’ scheme receives 9,600 applications for 4,400 flats”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-07-15, Hong Kong:


Sau Mau Ping

Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.

2006 March 20, Andy Cheng, “Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-04-02, Hong Kong:

The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.

2017, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 137:

More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.

2023 March 7, Lea Mok, “Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-02-02, Hong Kong:

A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.

2023 December 5, “14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 2023-12-07, Local:


Lam Tin

Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.

1977, Frank Leeming, “Kwuntong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 127:

The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days.

2021 February 1, Candice Chau, “In Pictures: Hong Kong imposes third overnight Covid-19 lockdown, no cases found after 400 tested”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon. A taxi carried out a “careless lane change” and the other vehicles could not stop in time, causing the collision, senior police inspector Lee Pok-kit said.

2023 March 24, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21, World:

A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Yau Tong

When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.

2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:

“When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”

2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-10, Asia Pacific:

On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island.

2019 July 11, Joyce Zhou, John Ruwitch, Tyrone Siu, Felix Tam, Vimvam Tong, “Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-07-11, World News:

Hong Kong saw one of its first protests since Covid-19 restrictions were eased, as a group of environmental activists protested against the illegal operation of a concrete plant in Yau Tong on Saturday.

2023 February 4, Candice Chau, “Environmental protesters rally against illegal concrete plant in Hong Kong amid heavy police presence”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, Hong Kong:


Kwai Chung

The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.

2007, Hong Kong 2006, Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied peacefully during heavy rain at a sports stadium in the Kwai Chung area of the city on Sunday.

2019 August 25, “Hong Kong: Shot fired, water cannon deployed after petrol-bomb attack”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-09-14:

A police officer on July 30 aimed a shotgun at protesters during a clash in the Kwai Chung district, where residents usually catch the bus. The Hong Kong Police Force later said the weapon had been loaded with beanbag rounds, and that the officer drew it only after protesters attacked him.

2019 October 31, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong’s Jarring Protests: Clashes Fade, Then Flare Up Again”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-31, Asia Pacific:

An area in Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.