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It is a major shopping area standing side by side with Causeway Bay.
Mong Kok is located in Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, in the middle of the Kowloon Peninsula. There are many old and new buildings; the floors of old residential buildings are mostly shops or restaurants. Bounded by Nathan Road, shopping malls are concentrated to the east and residential areas are to the west. The transportation in Mong Kok is very developed, with buses, trains, subways, and green minibuses running all night. The area east of Nathan Road is often crowded during holidays.
Mong Kok also has many characteristic streets, such as Sneakers Street (Fa Yuen Street), Ladies Market (Tung Choi Street), Goldfish Street (Tong Choi Street), Flower Market and Bird Garden.
History
Mong Kok was called Mong Kok in ancient times because the area was overgrown with miscanthus and the terrain resembled a horn extending into the sea. The place was called Mong Kok Tsui, and the nearby villages It was named Mangjiao Village. In May 2004, a large number of pottery and pottery tools from the Eastern Han, Jin and Tang dynasties were unearthed in a drainage site with a depth of only two meters at the junction of Tong Choi Street and Soy Street in the busy city. It showed that Mong Kok had already been Inhabited.
During the Qing Dynasty, Mong Kok (Mong Kok) was also known as Wang Kok. Beginning in 1860, Mong Kok was ceded to Britain along with the Kowloon Peninsula. By 1909, the Hong Kong government began to reclaim the sea and build typhoon shelters in the area, and wharves and roads began to be built nearby. In the 1930s, Mong Kok was renamed Mong Kok, taking its prosperous meaning, but the English name (Mong Kok) remained unchanged and is still used today. At that time, Mong Kok was an industrial area with many cigarette factories, cotton weaving factories and hardware factories.
To the west of Nathan Road in Mong Kok is land reclaimed from the sea. The current reclaimed land street was the seaside in the 1950s. Today, Mong Kok has become an extremely prosperous shopping and residential area.
Features
The population density of Mong Kok is extremely high. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mong Kok is the most densely populated area in the world, with an average density of 130,000 people per square kilometer.
There are many special streets in Mong Kok:
※Ladies Street - the section of Tung Choi Street running from Dundas Street to Argyle Street. It got its name because it sells clothing, cosmetics, furnishings and other women's products.
※Bird Street, also known as Connaught Street, is named after the street stalls filled with birds. Connaught Street was demolished due to urban renewal in 1998. The shop owners were arranged to move to Yuen Po Street Bird Park adjacent to Mong Kok Railway Station, and the comprehensive development area "Langham Place" was built on the original site. "Langham Place" includes the five-star "Langham Place Hotel", an office building and a large shopping mall with a height of more than ten floors, equipped with a cinema, department stores and many restaurants.
※Sneaker Street - a section of Huayuan Street, named after the many shops selling sports shoes.
※Goldfish Street - a section of Tongcai Street is named after the many shops selling farmed fish.
※Flower Market Road - named after the numerous shops that wholesale and retail flowers.
※Sai Yeung Choi Street South - Standing side by side with Ladies Market, there are many shops selling trendy clothing, electronic products and snacks. It is one of the popular shopping hotspots among young people in Hong Kong.
※Dundas Street - Bordering Ladies Market and Sai Yeung Choi Street to the south, the street is full of shops selling snacks and is one of the most popular places among young people in Hong Kong.
There are also many shopping malls in Mong Kok:
※Langham Place
※New Century Plaza
※Mong Kok Computer Center
※Sin Wo Center
※Hao King Shopping Center
※Kung Wah Center
※Xian Tat Plaza
Because there are many shopping malls in Mong Kok It sells trendy items suitable for young people, so young people who hang out in Mong Kok are called "MK boys" or "MK people", and "MK" is the abbreviation of Mong Kok.
Transportation
※Main traffic arteries
Nathan Road
Mong Kok Road
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West Kowloon Corridor
※Bus*** Transportation
MTR:
Kwun Tong Line and Tsuen Wan Line: MTR Mong Kok Station
p>Kowloon-Canton Railway
Kowloon-Canton East Rail: East Rail Mong Kok Station
Bus: KMB, NWFB, Citybus Cross-harbour Tunnel, Green Green Minibus, Green All-night Green Minibus Ba red public *** minibus