Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

The biggest difference between

MONEY & TIME

You Always know much much MONEY you have

But You Never know how much TIME you have

Kowloon - This trip I stayed around Yau Ma Tei MTR station, one station from my last trip @ Mongkok station. Yau Ma Tei is one of Hong Kong's oldest and most diverse neighbourhoods, streets and buildings brings you back to Hong Kong of old times. Yau Ma Tei, formerly known as Waterloo (named after Waterloo Road).

It was a fasinating place, old man singing along street corners, street walkers everywhere and the famous Fruit market. The nickname Gwo Laan came later; gwo means fruit and laan refers to a wholesale market

Yau Ma Tei Fruit warehouse at night

Fruit market in the afternoon

The wholesale fruit market that has operated at the corner of Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street since 1913. Every night, workers get to work pushing and pulling boxes of pineapples, durians and all kind of fruts from around the world between warehouses and trucks. Stacks and stacks of fruit boxes piled high ready for the next morning.

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