Western Market
Edwardian red-brick market building from nineteen-oh-six, now housing fabric vendors and cafes with a ballroom upstairs.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Western Market in Hong Kong follows Chan Sun, a tailor's-cloth merchant who began as an errand boy at a shop called Lee Loy Piece Goods and ended up with a single upstairs stall in this red-brick building. Along the way you'll hear about the market's 1906 construction, the bricks it was built from, and the fishmongers who once worked the floor above. Best heard standing outside, where you can look up at the corner towers.
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