Because Ye Olde Bookseller has shop duty for this weekend’s San Po Kong Arts Fair/Walking Tour — Bleak House Books is a scheduled stop during Saturday’s events — he decided to go on his own walking tour through San Po Kong today. This photo essay is the result of that tour.
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- Pat Tat Street and Tai Yau Street
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- Looking north on Tai Yau Street toward Choi Hung Road
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- The second best part of my day: walking down Tai Yau Street to the bookshop
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- The streets in the industrial section of SPK all start with Chinese numbers — here are numbers four and five.
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- A taste of the new and the old
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- Lots of signs with old Chinese calligraphy — learn more about this at the SPK Arts Fair!
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- Self explanatory
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- A salvaged sign from Big Cliff Village, since razed to make way for a new MTR station
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- Not quite a street. Not quite an alley. These “roads” serve as loading zones and parking lots for the industrial buildings that back on to them.
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- Tai Yau Street and Tseuk Luk Street at lunchtime
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- “Lai Lai See See”
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- “Kept my owner company for lunch and all I got was this lousy menu!”
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- Fresh noodles!
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- Not sure what to make of this. Maybe better off not knowing where your roast pork comes from?
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- Lunchtime for students
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- The car repair shop next to Well Tech Centre. You’ll often find the boss sitting at the table there keeping tabs on his clients and their cars.
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- Often the site of a hive of activity on Pat Tat Street: the trash collectors’ hangout
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- Siesta in a cool spot
