Everything about Tung Choi Street totally explained
Tung Choi Street is a street between
Boundary Street and
Dundas Street in
Mong Kok,
Kowloon,
Hong Kong. Its southern section is the most well-known
street market in
Hong Kong selling items of various kinds and is known as
Ladies' Market or
Ladies' Street (女人街). Ladies Market has many products for sale and you can haggle with the shop keeper. The products are not only for women. Many men's and children's products are for sale as well. Soft toys, clothes, bags, jeans, watches,... just to name a few. Its northern section features a market selling
goldfish and is called
Goldfish Street (金魚街) or
Goldfish Market.
After each section of Ladies Market there's a small width of road that must be crossed in order to reach the next section and luckily refreshments are available near those intersections. One very popular dessert shop located close to Ladies Market is Hui Lau San. They sell beverages like pearl tea, iced chocolate and lemon tea.
History
The street was built on
Ipomoea aquatica cultivation in a village, Mong Kok Tsuen (芒角村), in Mong Kok in 1924. The name Tung Choi is the Cantonese name of
ipomoea aquatica. As time goes by the village and fields were replaced by high-rise buildings.
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