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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2013 September 25, Aric Chen, “A Hong Kong Neighborhood That’s a Lot Like Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Food, Travel",
"text": "For a long time, Hong Kong’s frenetic night life scene has centered on fancy hotel bars and glitzy clubs swarmed with corporate bankers. Tai Hang — a quickly gentrifying area southeast of the city’s shiny Causeway Bay district — is now offering more laid-back options.",
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"text": "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.",
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