Tai O Promenade
Waterfront walk past stilt houses and shops selling shrimp paste, salted fish and dried seafood.
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This guide to Tai O Promenade in Hong Kong follows Cheng Kai-keung, whose family has made shrimp paste in this fishing village since nineteen twenty, through the long summer days of salt, shrimp and sun. It touches the Tanka boat families whose stilt houses line the water, and the fishermen who once supplied his trade. Best heard walking slowly past the waterfront storefronts, where the smell does half the telling.
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