Places off Tung Lung Street 4
The southern side of Russel Street , in fact was the outside wall of the Tramways depot. On the other side of the wall was where the trams were parked at night time, and at the daytime trams were repaired or had their maintenances done there.
On the Russel Street side, cooked food stalls 熟食大牌檔 were standing along the wall, from one end of the street to another. Different stalls had different working hours. Some started as early as 5am, and some of them closed as late as 2, 3 am.
In front of the shops at the building sides, there was a row of ‘fixed’ small stalls (3’x 4’). They were selling veggies, fruit, dry sea food, eggs….etc.
Not only that, early in the morning, hawkers put their stuffs right in the middle of the street waiting for business. You can imagine how busy this street would be. There were countless of people mucking around to buy their daily things, waiters of the cooked food stalls were walking around to serve their customers. Those customers were sitting at the tables 八仙枱 which were set around those stalls. Hawkers were standing in the middle of the street and yelling for attracting peoples’ attention. Customers were standing in front of those small fixed stalls choosing their favourites. Some people walked In and out of the shops through the gaps of these stalls.
I didn’t count, but it must take a long time to walk through the Russel Street from one side to another.
Talking about the floor, it was awful, there was full of mud, garbage and very wet. In those days, I wore thongs. When I walked passed Russel Street , the back of my legs were full of wet mud.
Further south to Russel Street was the tramways depot, which is the Time Square now.
Next blog I will talk about the west side of Tung Lung Street . Here was the place I spent most of the time of my childhood.
The southern side of Russel Street , in fact was the outside wall of the Tramways depot. On the other side of the wall was where the trams were parked at night time, and at the daytime trams were repaired or had their maintenances done there.
On the Russel Street side, cooked food stalls 熟食大牌檔 were standing along the wall, from one end of the street to another. Different stalls had different working hours. Some started as early as 5am, and some of them closed as late as 2, 3 am.
In front of the shops at the building sides, there was a row of ‘fixed’ small stalls (3’x 4’). They were selling veggies, fruit, dry sea food, eggs….etc.
Not only that, early in the morning, hawkers put their stuffs right in the middle of the street waiting for business. You can imagine how busy this street would be. There were countless of people mucking around to buy their daily things, waiters of the cooked food stalls were walking around to serve their customers. Those customers were sitting at the tables 八仙枱 which were set around those stalls. Hawkers were standing in the middle of the street and yelling for attracting peoples’ attention. Customers were standing in front of those small fixed stalls choosing their favourites. Some people walked In and out of the shops through the gaps of these stalls.
I didn’t count, but it must take a long time to walk through the Russel Street from one side to another.
Talking about the floor, it was awful, there was full of mud, garbage and very wet. In those days, I wore thongs. When I walked passed Russel Street , the back of my legs were full of wet mud.
Further south to Russel Street was the tramways depot, which is the Time Square now.
Next blog I will talk about the west side of Tung Lung Street . Here was the place I spent most of the time of my childhood.
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