LET’S VISIT OUR OLD TOWN CENTRAL Preview

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Tai Kwun

This building has already existed with nearly 170 years, and this is the former Central Police Station Compound. There is a site with 16 hertiage buildings full of work of architecture. The former Police Headquarters is also held with Roman-style. Currently there is the renewal project completed, there are workshops with art and culture style, restaurants, art galleries, retails shops.

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GRAHAM STREET MARKET

You can have a look of Graham Street Market, is one of the oldest outdoor wet markets supplies with fresh food for local people nearly 160 years. The name is generated from a British General. It is a place contained with Chinese and Western culture, there are rice shops, fruit shops and other western restaurants along the street.

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KUNG LEE SUGARCANE JUICE

A shop locates in traditional Chinese mansion with nearly 100 years. This is a place discovered with history of HK agriculture, Chinese herb tea culture for the HK society. There is telephone number in 5 digits marked on the wall. The shop generally sell with sugarcane juice, sugarcane pudding, Chinese herb tea. You can see there is agriculture tips of sugarcane showed on the wall, a Old fan with classical tile on the ceiling, also there are displayed with traditional clock, and traditional machine for making cane juice.

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PMQ

A place built in 1889. After wartime damage, the site was repurposed as quarters for married junior policemen. The PMQ consists of two blocks named Stauton and Hollywood. The two seven-storey buildings are now turned into shops and galleries. The building's residential units were turned into studios, shops and offices for creative enterprises and exhibition spaces. The former clubhouse has also been revitalized into a restaurant with its original designs intact.

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MAN MO TEMPLE

The Man Mo Temple Compound on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wan comprising three blocks – Man Mo Temple, Lit Shing Kung and Kung Sor – was built between 1847 and 1862 by wealthy Chinese merchants. Man Mo Temple is a two-hall-three-bay structure fronted by two granite drum platforms. A pair of screen doors is placed in the front hall. The magnificent Man Mo Temple Compound is a fine example of traditional Chinese vernacular architecture and is exquisitely decorated with ceramic figurines, granite and wood carvings, plaster mouldings and murals, all of which exhibit superb traditional craftsmanship. Man Mo Temple Compound was declared a monument in 2010.

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LADDER STREET

A street consists long history and built with stone steps in Hong Kong. It is a historic site in Hong Kong. It was nearby the Man Mo Temple on the Hollywood Road. Linkage with many sites in Central such as the oldest western hospital - Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong.

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YMCA BRIDGES STREET CENTRE

This place was full of western and Chinese culture and the architecture is both included with the Western and Chinese influence. This is a place completed in 1918 with 6-storey blend of Chicago School architecture and Chineses roofing techniques. It is a place now currently provided social facilities such as fitness centre, restaurants and a hostel.