2️⃣ Are you have been to Hong Kong? And the first impression of HK
3️⃣ SSP name deep water bay, district for the lower class people
4️⃣ U will not see the sky scrapers
5️⃣ So for today, the tour will last an hour
1st spots – cullinan west
1️⃣ Why so expensive USD800,000 ／ 200 ft apartment
2️⃣ Why still many buyers
3️⃣ Capital flight
4️⃣ RMB USD HKD
5️⃣ HK Shelter
Chitchat
1️⃣ask how many people are joining this session
2️⃣show the view of the margin area of the district
2nd spots -Fu Cheong Estate
1️⃣ rent USD250 , 3200 months/260 years for USD. 800,000
2️⃣7 years in HK to be the permanent resident and get the HKID card
3️⃣ maximum income limits 11830 (USD1500)
Total net asset limit 257000 (USD 32000)
4️⃣ Wait over 5 years average to get in
5️⃣ Very strict that government can check
Chitchat
1️⃣HK was British colony, has 3 region
2️⃣ opium war
3️⃣ Traffic jam
4️⃣show the Graffiti
3rd spots Tin Hau temple
1️⃣hk doesn’t has any official religion, Mainly Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism
2️⃣Tin Hau is a temple of Taoism, this temple built in 1901
3️⃣ Tin Hau is the goddess of the sea, incharge of the ocean.
4️⃣ In the past, she have the superpower to foresee the weather changing, which is good for fishman.
5️⃣ hK has more than 100 tin hau temple , so spot all the Tin Hau temple in HK, you can find the coastline of the city in the past.
6️⃣Cannot film inside, so we show pictures
7️⃣Incense burner, believers believe that there is an other would after we die. (Show slide)
4th Yat Ping
1️⃣the white building, call Yat Ping
2️⃣ As you can see it is near the temples, so in the past here is nearby the sea.
3️⃣The government develop this area in 1910s, one of the method is reclamation
4️⃣in 1920s whole street are full of 2&3 storeys height
5️⃣ Right now this is the only building that has 2-3storeys left in this street, do you know why❓
6️⃣1950 refugees come to Hong Kong due to Communist
7️⃣1955 gov ammended the law to rebuild the building from 2-3 to 6-7
8️⃣ Therefore the old ones must be built before 1955
9️⃣ Finally, this building is call Yat Ping and it was a company selling photo frames and painting frames which was closed in 2016.
🔟For now there are no plans for this building, but I am afraid in the coming future it will be torn down, so really recommend to come to HK to see this
Chitchat
1️⃣Covid19 vaccine (BioNTech, Sinovac ), variant virus, isolation for 21 days
2️⃣The prevention and control of Disease Ordinance
3️⃣Restrictions on wearing mask.
4️⃣Later on some of the occupation have to to the covid test compulsory.
5️⃣ The atmosphere of central area of SSP, this is very local and it’s for the lower class.
6️⃣ Some people afraid that the expensive building in the margin will increase the price and the daily cost of the SSP district, which will affect the local grassroots level.
5th wet market
1️⃣the wet market sells daily ingredients
2️⃣we will not go inside the building, but would like to have a glimpse from the entrance
3️⃣sell live chicken and raw meat
4️⃣ until 1940, full of streets vendors
5️⃣ Until 1950, a lot of refugees became street vendors
6️⃣ For those refugees who settled down in Hong Kong, they have capital and skills and develop the light industry of HK
Export toys,watches, clothes, plastic flowers to the world.
7️⃣1970 economic drop down, a lot of employees lost their Jobs and became the street vendors again, government established the first recongnised street vendors area, lady market, selling the lady’s goods.
8️⃣two categories, daily ingredients and goods.
Chitchat
1️⃣Show street vendors
2️⃣show vegetables
3️⃣see the local of HK
6th subdivided flat
1️⃣take photos
2️⃣ Lower class people cannot afford the rent, subdivided flats, for example, 600sq ft divided into 4 subdivided flat which each one is 150sq ft.
3️⃣ although the area is smaller but the rent is still expensive that cost USD650
4️⃣ HK housing burden has been named as the champions of the world for a decade in terms of the property price
5️⃣ people have to save the money of medium salary for 20.8 year without any expenditure including food, drinks travel and social lives
6️⃣And you can see, the second runner up is not even close even 11 years almost 12years are not a short time.
7️⃣the connection of today tour, do you still remember the expensive private building? Because of the currency exchange policy that causes a lot of the capital flight happen in HK, then the public housing is so difficult to get in, and a lot of people have to rent the subdivided flat because of the housing burden. So housing issue is a serious problems in HK.
7th pawn shop
1️⃣ What is pawn shop? When you are running out of money, you may bring your valuable stuff into the pawn shop to exchange some money. When you have the money back, you can com back to the pawn shop to get back your valuable stuff, by returning the money with the interest.
2️⃣ usually there are several kinds of valuable stuff, like the watch, the gold, the expensive stuff. In the old days, it is very common for people to exchange the quilt/blanket to the pawn shop. Because summer don’t need it, and no storage to store it and then the winter get it back .
3️⃣Pawn shop sign, in HK, if you see this sign, you know that this is a pawn shop
4️⃣the meaning of the sign, the lower part is a circle, which is a coins, the upper part is an up animal which is up sise down, could you please take a guess of what animal is it?
5️⃣for the bat, it’s pronounciation in Cantonese is Fok, and it is same as the pronounciation of Good fortune, and do you still remember that the bat is up side down❓ Why is it up side down? It doesn’t mean bad fortune, instead when the bat is up sign down, it’s mean the fortune is coming back, because the dou is same meaning as come back in Cantonese.
Sum up
1️⃣Sum up plus questions
2️⃣ Cantonese class
3️⃣ reminder have to wait until I leave the session
Hey Vincent, nice work! This is the feedback from the guest: Vincent was very organized, knowledgeable and engaging! He took the time to get to know us and what was important to us to learn and see. Vincent took his time explaining things to us and making sure we understood. He had a fun personality too! Thank you!
