In Hong Kong, many shops still carry out an outdoor business such barbers, noodle stall, street food restaurants ("Dai Pai Dong"), fortune teller, sewer shop, refreshment shop and so on...
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Sheung Wan is famous for its small Chinese-style shops selling dried
seafood and medicinal herbs.
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| Dried Seafood outdoor shop |
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The Erhu, two stringed Violin, is one of the most widely used bowed instruments
in China.
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| Erhu player |
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Roadside food stalls or "Dai Pai Dong" are on decline.
This one is located near Central market. The future of "Dai Pai Dong" is at issue
because the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has stopped issuing new licences.
Only spouses or children of stall owners can inherit licences, so if
there is no spouse or child, the licence dies.
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| Dai Pai Dong |
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Famous roadside food stalls are Lan Fong Yuen, a 55-year-old "Dai Pai Dong" in Central that still brews tea beverage the old-fashioned way and Man Yuen, a 80-year-old noodle stall in Elgin Street that was forced to closed in 2005 after its licensee died.
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Hong Kong's 29 remaining "Dai Pai Dong" or roadside restaurants
are destined to die out along with the current generation of proprietors.
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| Dai Pai Dong |
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Dai Pai Dongs originated in the 1940s when the city was short of restaurants and filling up with refugees after World War II. The golden age of the "Dai Pai Dong" was the 1960s, when Hong Kong had nearly 3000 of them.
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Cardboard, aluminium cans and metal are treasures in poor districts.
Often elderly people can be seen pushing carts full of cardboards or
looking for cans in dustbins in order to sell those materials for ten or twenty HKD a day.
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| Collecting cardboards |
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Seing people pushing garbage cart and seeing them collecting paper cartons, soft-drink cans is quite common in Hong Kong and Macau.
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Many shoes repair outlets are still outdoor shops offering fast and efficent
repair services on the spot.
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| Shoes repair |
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Mr Tam Kwok Kwong's shoe shop is located on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wan.
It is opened for 40 years. Mr Tam Kwok Kwong still does customized shoes for a few
customers but nowadays his business is mainly shoes repair.
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| Mr Tam Kwok Kwong's shoe shop |
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Many fruit stores can be found all around Hong Kong. They sell delicious
and fresh fresh fruit juices.
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| Fruit store |
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Traditional Chinese medicine is thousands of years old.
Its practices include theories, diagnosis and treatments such as herbal medicine,
acupuncture and massage.
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| Traditional Chinese doctor |
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Many fruit stores can be found all around Hong Kong. They sell delicious
and fresh fresh fruit.
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| Fruit store |
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Small outdoor shops selling basic commodities stay open very late.
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| Outdoor shop |
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Chinese Chess is perhaps the most popular board game in the world, played by millions of
people in China, other parts of Asia, and wherever Chinese have settled.
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| Chinese chess |
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Many outdoor shoes repair can be found in Hong Kong districts.
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| Shoes repair |
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