Goldfish Street

This guide to Goldfish Street in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district starts with a pun: in Cantonese, goldfish sounds almost like gold surplus, which is why families here treat a fish bag as a lucky purchase. It traces the market's roots to vendors who migrated here in the 1960s and how feng shui beliefs turned goldfish into a citywide industry by the 1970s. Walk the rows of hanging bags and see how many colors you can count.