Yuen Po Street - Bird Garden
The Yuen Po Street Bird Garden in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, is a unique Chinese-style park built to preserve the tradition of street bird stalls, featuring traditional architecture, ornate birdcages for sale, bird seed vendors, and elderly locals socializing with their pet birds, offering a fascinating glimpse into local life and craftsmanship. It's a popular spot for both bird lovers and tourists, showcasing beautifully crafted bamboo cages and the cultural phenomenon of taking birds for walks.
Connaught Road West
Connaught Road West is a visual playground defined by industrial grit and linear geometry. For a photographer, its primary appeal lies in the dramatic interplay of levels. The Connaught Road West Flyover creates a massive concrete ceiling that carves the landscape into sharp, high-contrast zones of deep shadow and piercing sunlight, perfect for street photography and "chiaroscuro" effects.
Ap Lei Chau
Ap Lei Chau is rich in cultural and historical significance, offering insights into the coastal beauty of Hong Kong. Here, the lens captures a jarring yet beautiful harmony: salt-crusted fishing trawlers docked in the shadow of gleaming 50-story residential towers, and incense-filled temples standing defiant against the sprawl of industrial outlet malls.
Des Voeux Road West
Des Voeux Road West, famously known as "Dried Seafood Street," is one of Hong Kong’s most visually rich cultural corridors. For photographers, it offers a raw, cinematic look into the city’s past, where traditional trade thrives in the shadow of rising skyscrapers. A stroll along Des Voeux Road West offers a multi-sensory journey through one of Hong Kong’s most traditional neighborhoods, where history and modern commerce collide.
Street Markets in Jordan
Hong Kong is a treasure trove of amazing bargains and the best places to find them are at the city’s open-air street markets in Jordan. Aside from offering a wide array of wares — many of which make fantastic souvenirs — these marketplaces are also great for practicing your haggling, which adds even more fun to your retail experience. If you want to test your deal-striking skills, head to one of these street markets in and around the vicinity around Temple Street Night Market.
Sham Shui Po market
Sham Shui Po has many lively street markets, electronics outlets, fabric stores, restaurants and food vendors. It is famous for its Golden Computer Shopping Arcade for bargain electronics and accessories. This photo series focuses on the street life in and around the Sham Shui Po wet market.This area is ideal for street photography.
Aberdeen Harbour
Aberdeen is known for its floating islands where local fishermen can be seen plying their craft from their junks. The best way to experience Aberdeen Harbour is to take a cruise tour by sampan.
Sai Kung
Sai Kung is located in the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula in the eastern part of the New Territories. It has beautiful scenery and charming coast.
Tai O
Tai O is one of the few remaining fishing villages in Hong Kong. It located in Lantau Island, and the most authentic example of Southern China’s old fishing life and culture.
Wan Chai Road
Start your day in Wan Chai by exploring Wan Chai Road and the adjacent street markets. The area is filled with local provision stores, fruit stalls and fish mongers. Hustle through the crowded streets. Go shoulder to shoulder with the locals as they shop and bargain. Feel the pulse of Hong Kong in Wan Chai.
Lok Ku Road
Located in the Sheung Wan district adjacent to Cat Street, aka Lascar Road and Hollywood Road. The street is filled with interesting shops ranging from preloved, antiquities, cafes and art galleries. Explore this vibrant are as there is much to uncover along the alleys and the extended part to Tai Ping Shan. Drop into Blue Lotus Gallery to see the latest exhibits.
Goldfish Market
The Goldfish market runs along the northern section of Tung Choi Street, in the Mongkok area. Hundreds of brightly colored exotic fish species swim around tanks and hang in bags outside the shopfronts of this unique market. Of the many markets that bring colour to the streets of Hong Kong, the Goldfish Market is perhaps the most offbeat.According to Chinese tradition, fish are considered to be auspicious and believed to bestow wealth and prosperity.
Tai Nan Street
Bustling Tai Nan Street is a former manufacturing hub with a history of producing leather goods. These days, it brings the local community together over art, design and food. The street has also attracted young entrepreneurs, artists, and design enthusiasts who are injecting fresh energy into the neighbourhood with trendy art galleries, chic cafes and independent design studios.
Tai Ping Shan
A culturally vibrant and historic area known for its mix of colonial history, temples, and trendy new shops. Located at the north slope of Victoria Peak in Sheung Wan, the street starts east from a ladder street at the junction with Bridges Street and end west in Po Yan Street near Tung Wah Hospital. The street runs parallel to Hollywood Road
Kweilin Street
Taking a stroll down Kweilin Street is like taking a trip back in time. The long stretch is dotted with plenty of fascinating historic sites, including the Tin Hau Temple built in 1901, as well traditional tenement buildings (known as tong lau) that date back to the early part of the 20th century.
Man Mo Temple Sheung Wan
Man Mo Temple was built mainly for the worship of Man Cheong (God of Literature) and Mo Tai (God of Martial Arts). Located in Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.
Sham Shui Po
This part of Kowloon often comes to life as sun as the sun begins to rise. Filled with tradesman, second hand stores, flea markets and local businesses.
Pottinger Street
Pottinger Street in Central is also known as the Stone Slabs Street. since the street is paved unevenly by granite stone steps. It was named in 1858 after Henry Pottinger, the first Governor of Hong Kong, serving from 1843 to 1844.
Man Mo Temple
Man Mo Temple was built mainly for the worship of Man Cheong (God of Literature) and Mo Tai (God of Martial Arts). Located in Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Man Mo Temple is a declared national monument and is said to have been built between 1847 and 1862 by wealthy Chinese merchants.The Temple has imperative historical and social values to the territory, representing the traditional social organization and religious practices of the Chinese community in old Hong Kong.
Pei Ho Street
Perfect place to experience Sham Shui Po like a local. The street is lined with stores and stalls that sell daily necessities.