Source: Think about Hong Kong
Author: Chen Kaiwen
Causeway Bay, who came to the Causeway Bay, came here to go shopping, usually at a Japanese -style department store near Dongjiao Road.At that time, Russell Street had not been relocated, and Times Square naturally did not exist, and the stage was not rebuilt. It was a market at the time.At present, the shops selling cosmetics downstairs are still vegetable stalls before. There is a tofu shop next to it. Times Square is built in fashion. The tofu flowers are good.I saw the pork guy carrying a pig and moved in it.As for the highest shop in the world, there were many scholars at the time. His father bought cigarettes every day at that shop. The boss of Shigo lived in the same building as us.
At that time, the middle class and white -collar workers would not run to the goose neck area, because in addition to the market, Russell Street also had a bunch of big sign next to the tram factory.Every night, there are a lot of emphasis on psychological workers, including hard work, three -row workers, tram drivers, and meat stalls, running there to eat there, and drink wine by the way.Family well -off families do not run there. It is not pure because there is no air conditioning, but also because of the poor sanitary environment. After all, the previous market will not clean up the washing land every day.Most of the upper helpers are heavy -duty workers. The long -term sweat will have a body taste, and the clothes are dirty. When they talk, they will be rough and rotten. Generally, white -collar workers naturally respect and stay away.
Of course, in addition to the hygienic environment in the 1980s, in addition to the hygienic environment, there are also public security issues.In the past, Hong Kong was not like the present. Although the ICAC has been established in the 1970s, the underground order still exists. As long as there is no large -scale fight, the police will not deliberately embarrass the people in the rivers and lakes except for the regular "washing the Taiping land".For this reason, there will be so -called rivers and lakes in any market or big -name file, and the confusion of tattooing. In addition to receiving protection fees here, it will also "fight" (lingering) here.Some can make wine crazy, and those who are confused will repairs them.One of the pastime activities when I was a kid was to hear the noise, the cat watched them fight beside the window.
Due to the mess of the night market, the mother was not allowed to run down at night, at most, to eat the sugar water in Fuming Street.Yes, as soon as I entered the night, there was no hawker management. Fuming Street, Liyuan Mountain Road, and even a section of Xie Feidao near the presidential theater all had any cooked hawkers.When Locke Road and Xie Fei Road, the goose neck bridge, many sparrow halls, sauna bathrooms, game console centers, and Japanese nightclubs and bars.Due to the more complicated flow over there, the family did not dare to take my child at night. I had to wait until the rebellious period, and under the leadership of a few friends who became confused, I saw the nightlife over there.
Every night, the life surrounded by fried dishes, fisting and noisy sounds ended, and it ended with the construction of the Times Square in the early 1990s.The government has gradually banned Russell Street and the big -name stalls of Ma Shidao, and placed them in a cooked food center in Goose Neck and Locke Road.The vegetable stalls around Russell Street have also completed with the completion of the Times Square and the market ecology.Bar, cafes and restaurants.As for Locke and Xie Feidao from the goose neck to Lubeidao, how it seems to be another story from a red light district to now.
The reason why the change in Causeway Bay, especially Russell Street, is mainly because some people have relaxed epidemic prevention measures in Hong Kong.There are still many people's activities in the past night. Many shops now close their closes early, so they proposed to imitate Taiwan and Thailand, add more night markets in Hong Kong to attract passengers to Hong Kong, while stimulating local residents to stay in Hong Kong for consumption.This proposal originally thought that some members said casually, but the response from the official seemed to be implemented. This article had to use its own experience to tell the past big names and nights in Causeway Bay, what impact will the local residents actually bringEssence
It is necessary to know that many so -called night markets in various places are usually lacking in urban management, or at least the result of not strict management.So the big name is simply distributed, so that the cooked hawkers are no longer flowing, and it is also convenient to monitor their food hygiene.However, as mentioned above, in addition to staining the streets, such big -name files will also bring local residents and bring sound disturbances and public security issues.
It can be said that in the past, the official launch a large number of manpower and material resources, put the big -name stalls on the cooked food center, crack down on mobile hawkers, and educate citizens through advertising. Do not patronize cooked hawkers.Great project.It is true that the big street stalls are in some population. What are the local characteristics of Hong Kong, but we are not like a foreign country.Do you feel?If we are in a downturn because of the so -called evening market, we plan to make the so -called night market come back, and make the market look back in the past.
Some people may say that the night market may not have to set up cooked food stalls, but some people say that if they want to imitate other places, they must not only sell goods without cooked food.What is even more worrying is that in order to engage in the so -called night market, after pushing down the past municipal management results, we still reluctant to come over in the past.After all, the freedom to come to Hong Kong before the epidemic and the black storm is mainly to come to Hong Kong to sweep Hong Kong goods and buy brand names. Now the main selling point of consumption in the north is that the local environment and service quality is no less than Hong Kong, and the area and space areas and spaceThe larger shopping mall than Hong Kong, as well as restaurants that are more disabled than Hong Kong.
If you make a so -called night market, even if you make it like the past, but the environment may be clean and hygienic?Can food prices sell more affordable than Shenzhen?If you eat beef hot pot in big -name stalls, the price is more expensive than eating in the mall north. The Mainland now has Hong Kong -style tea meals even in five -tier cities.Hong Kong consumption?In this question, I also ask the grandfather in the temple to think deeply. Don't be like a gourmet car proposed that year, it will be tossed for a round, but there is no help to the tourism industry.
The author is a member of the Xueji Society, a researcher at Fushan Think Tank, and a member of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association
