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lessismore  ·  4613 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Walled City Formerly Known as Kowloon
Looking at the pictures now, it seems quite dirty and oppressive, but while I was living in Hong Kong in the 1970's, it did not feel all that bad. Some of my most prominent memories of HK was buying snacks from the quasi-legal street vendors. I vividly recall "purchasing" a stick of fish balls from a vendor and before I could pay him, he took off running with his cart because he saw policemen coming.