March 16, 2010 | Hong Kong

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Issue #826: Farewell Wing Lee Street
Hiking Book

Still Standing - Catch them before they go.

Still Standing - Catch them before they go.

September 26th, 2008

Catch them before they go. Photos by Kay Yuen.

85. Have a French toast at China Cafe
86. ...And wash it down with an iced milk tea
87. Still feeling hungry? Walk down to Mido Cafe for a baked pork chop rice
88. ...And watch the day go by on their first floor terrace
89. Have another nostalgic cha chaan teng experience at Cheung Lee Cafe
90. Try some tea and talk about tea culture with the owners of the 77-year-old Pang Yue Tai tea shop
91. Break your knees and get them fixed by the bonesetter at Leung Choi Shun
92. While you’re there, buy a bottle of medicine oil to ease muscle pain
93. Get spooked in the haunted Nam Koo Terrace
94. ...or spook someone else there
95. Pet a cat and enjoy the sunlight at the Old District Office North in Tai Po
96. Coming down with a cold? Get some herbal medicine at Tai Wo Tong
97. Chat to the old lady still living in a 100-year-old house in Tai Hang
98. Hide from the junkies at the Sham Shui Po Public Dispensary
99. Visit the oldest printing press in Hong Kong at old tenement houses on
Wing Lee Street
100. Brave the guard dogs to admire the colonial-style mansion Jessville
101. Get your fortune told by a bird on Temple Street before the government tears down the area to build a highway
102. Don’t trust the bird? Go to the stall next-door next for palm reading
103. ...Or get a tarot reading across the street
104. Visit the Tai O Culture Workshop to understand the Tai O fishing culture
105. While you’re there, try the sweet dumpling snacks
106. ...After a fresh seafood meal
107. Try the freshest, cheapest pomegranates from the Graham Street Market
108. Get a permit to go inside the closed border area in Sha Tau Kok
109. And walk around the 1910-style buildings there
110. And don’t forget to take a peek at the other side of the border
111. Buy fresh seafood off a fishing boat in Sai Kung
112. Walk up the stairs of the worn-down pre-war buildings in Sham Shui Po
113. Find more of them in Tai Kok Tsui
114. Walk through the pre-war buildings and eat in the streets in Kowloon City
115. Think about those old blue buses we used to have at the Old China Bus depot
in Aberdeen
116. Sneak into the now vacant St. Mark’s School in Shau Kei Wan and graffiti the walls
117. Play mahjong with the villagers at the iconic “Eight Houses” in Stanley
118. Say a little prayer at the 120-year-old Main Cathedral on Caine Road
119. Wrong religion? Walk down Garden Road to St John’s Church
(built 167 years ago) instead
120. Still got it wrong? Go to Jamia Masjid, the 93-year-old mosque on  Shelley Street
121. Or Visit the Ohel Leah Synagogue, which has been on Robinson Road for 107 years
122. Stop at the Lin Fa Kung Temple in Tai Hang
123. Or the Wong Tai Sin Temple
124. Trek along Hong Kong Island to look for traces of the City of Victoria circa 1913, which is marked by seven boundary stones. Find the first one in the playground at
Kennedy Town.
125. The second one at the junction of Pok Fu Lam and Hatton Road
126. The third one is on Bowen Road
127. Then walk up to Old Peak Road for the fourth
128. Before heading to Magazine Gap Road for the next
129. The last one is on Wong Nai Chung Road (the seventh has been removed)
130. Admire the way the URA have preserved the pawnshop at 60 Johnston Road,
and enjoy a meal at The Pawn.
131. Then take a turn down Wedding Card Street to see the damage they have done

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