Mong Kok is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District and featuring many outdoor markets.
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Ladies' Street Market specializes in women's clothing, accessories, cosmetics.
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Many of the street markets are in the Mongkok district.
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Fresh delicious fruits are available for sale in Ladies' Street market.
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| Ladies' Street Market |
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Some shops sell fresh delicious fruits and also fruit baskets
to be offered as gifts.
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Egg tarts are a kind of pastry popular in Hong Kong cuisine and are available
in all Hong Kong local bakeries.
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Many accessories and various gadgets "made in China" are sold in Ladies' Street market.
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| Ladies' Street Market |
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Ladies Market is an outdoor street market with lots of stalls where local and tourists
can buy anything from copy watches to made in China souvenirs and clothes.
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| Ladies' Market |
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Mong Kok population density is extremely high. According to Guinness World Records, Mong Kok has the highest population density in the world, i.e. 130 000 per km2.
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Rising 42 storeys above Mongkok, the Langham Place Hotel is located in the vibrant
heart of Kowloon peninsula.
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Mong Kok has one of the largest red-light districts in Hong Kong. Several streets in the area are characterised by old buildings packed with dizzying neon signs of brothels and massage parlours.
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The district is characterized by a mixture of old and new multi-story buildings.
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Langham Place in Mongkok, Kowloon, is a very busy area on every
week-end as it is one of the shopping mecca in Hong Kong.
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| Langham Place |
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Urban decay and renewal is also ongoing in some parts of Prince Edward road.
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Lui Seng Chun, one of the city's oldest Chinese tenement buildings and the former home of Lui Leung,
a Kowloon Motor Bus founder, was built in 1931 by local architect W.H. Bourne. The ground floor used
to house Lui's Chinese medicine shop. The family lived on the upper floors. Lui's descendants lived
there up to the 1980s.
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The family donated the historic Prince Edward building to the government in 2003. It has been vacant since restoration in 2004. The Antiquities and Monuments Office said a consultancy was continuing on the best use of the shop-house. It is a grade one building.
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The ground floor of the building was occupied by a Chinese medicine shop,
while the upper floors became living quarters for the members of Lui's family.
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The Kwun Yam Temple in Mongkok is now stuck between two high-rises after
redevelopment.
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| Kwun Yam Temple |
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Kwun Yam deity is commonly known in the West as the Goddess of Mercy.
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| Kwun Yam Temple |
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