Mong Kok or Mongkok (Chinese: 旺角; the English name is a transliteration of its older name 望角 or 芒角) is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District on Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, China. Before a 1994 merge, Mong Kok was part of the Mong Kok District. Standard Mandarin – also known as Standard Chinese or Standard spoken Chinese – is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Cantonese is a major dialect group or language of the Chinese language, a member of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. ... Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. ... Sovereign state  Peoples Republic of China Administrative region  Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Location within the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Satellite image) District Council Chairman Chan Man-yu Constituencies 16 Area   â€“Land   â€“Water 6. ... The Kowloon Peninsula, commonly referred to as Kowloon, is a peninsula, in the south of the mainland part of the Hong Kong territory. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... Mong Kok District (Chinese: 旺角區) was one of the districts of Hong Kong, covering the areas of Mong Kok and Tai Kok Tsui in Kowloon. ...

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The district is characterised by a mixture of old and new multi-story buildings, with shops and restaurants at street level and commercial or residential units above. Major industries in Mong Kok are retail, restaurants (including fast food) and entertainment. Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld A restaurant is an establishment that serves prepared food and beverages to order, to be consumed on the premises. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... A stilt-walker entertaining shoppers at a shopping centre in Swindon, England Entertainment is an event, performance, or activity designed to give pleasure or relaxation to an audience (although, for example, in the case of a computer game the audience may be only one person). ...

History of Mong Kok

The area of Mong Kok was quite different from the present-day context. The heart of the present-day Mong Kok was Ho Man Tin whilst the proper Mong Kok was north of it, near present-day Mong Kok Station of KCR. With cultivated lands, it was bounded south by Argyle Street, west by Coronation Road (present-day Nathan Road), and east by the hills. To its south is Ho Man Tin and west Mong Kok Tsui. Stream from the hills east offered water for cultivation.. Ho Man Tin (何文田) or Ho Mun Tin is a mostly residential area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, part of the Kowloon City District. ... Entrance of Mong Kok Station. ... For other uses, see KCR (disambiguation). ... Categories: Hong Kong geography stubs | Streets and roads in Hong Kong ... Mong Kok Tsui (旺角嘴) is the western part of present-day Mong Kok. ...

Streets & Markets

A busy street in Mong Kok.

A busy street corner in Mong Kok

Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mong Kok

Mong Kok preserves its traditional characteristics with an array of markets, small shops, and food stalls that have already disappeared from other areas in Hong Kong over the past several decades of economic developments. As such, a few of these streets in Mong Kok have acquired interesting nicknames reflecting their own characteristics. Some interesting sites are: Mong Kok Scene -- photo taken by Johnny Bee Wong of Hong Kong File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Mong Kok Scene -- photo taken by Johnny Bee Wong of Hong Kong File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 429 KB)A busy street corner of Mong Kok (Taken by Tsui Sing Yan Eric) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 429 KB)A busy street corner of Mong Kok (Taken by Tsui Sing Yan Eric) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 650 KB) Summary Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1728, 650 KB) Summary Sai Yeung Choi Street South in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. ... A popular shopping in Sai Yeung Choi South Street A Picture of Sai Yeung Choi Street South Sai Yeung Choi Street (Chinese: ) are two streets in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, namely, Sai Yeung Choi Street South (西洋菜南街) and Sai Yeung Choi Street North (西洋菜北街). Although officially two streets, local people seldom... Look up Market in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

• Ladies' Street (女人街, Ladies' Market on Tung Choi Street) - This market specializes in women's clothing, accessories, cosmetics, and the like. It is open daily from noon to 10:30 p.m. at Tung Choi Street on the east of Nathan Road. Typically, where there is a market, there are also food stalls selling noodles, seafood, and congee for mid-afternoon or late-night snacks. A grocery market is also located in the vicinity, quite convenient for housewives to buy fresh vegetables and pantyhose on the same trip.

• Sai Yeung Choi Street South, (西洋菜南街) - A street full of shops selling consumer electronic products, comestics, and discount books, the last of which usually located on the lower floors above ground floor of buildings.

• Temple Street (廟街, sometimes referred to as Men's Street), extending into Jordan, is also in the area, however, the area famous for the Hong Kong specific goods are only in the section between Yaumatei and Jordan.

• Bird Garden - Hundreds of songbirds in exquisitely crafted cages can be seen at this market, which is on the other side of Nathan Road on Yuen Po Street. The garden is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is close to Mong Kok KCR station and Mong Kok stadium. Packed with booths selling birds, Hong Lok Street (Bird Street, 雀仔街) was closed as part of an urban renewal project in June 1998. The Garden was constructed by the government to accommodate some of the booths.

• Fa Yuen Street (花園街, sometimes referred to as 波鞋街, which means Sport Shoes Street) - This is a small neighbourhood with many small retailers which sell sports equipment and clothing. It has a wide diversity of sports shoes. Many shoes of rare or special editions from different places are available here.

• Flower Market (花墟) - This is a street market near the KCR train station with lots of flower shops and street hawkers showing colourful displays, the sweet scents and the exotic blossoms of many houseplants.

• Goldfish Market - There are a dozens shops and hawkers selling various tropical freshwater or marine fish near the KCR train station. Different types of aquarium equipments can also be found there. This market opens very early in the morning.

• Tile Street - This is a section of Portland Street near Argyle Street and Butt Street with more than 50 retailers selling materials for construction or renovation, such as tiles, wall paper, window frames and bath tubs.

• Photocopy Street (影印街) - This small neighbourhood near Ho Man Tin is noted in the area because there are quite a few schools in the vicinity, and the students in these schools have a strong demand for photocopying -- remarkably the shops there are famous for photocopying copyrighted books in mass quantities.

• Portland Street (砵蘭街) - The best-known red-light district in Hong Kong.

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• Sino Centre Arcade (信和中心) – In this plaza, there are many products about Japanese cartoons, such as Video CDs, DVDs, and comics. Beside that, there are shops for selling pop singers' CD albums. They carry many music albums, including ones by Hong Kong, Japanese, and western pop singers.

• Ho King Shopping Centre (好景商場)- In this plaza, you can find many products having to do computer and video games. They are sold for relatively low prices compared with other shops. The fourth floor of the plaza is infamous for being formerly the biggest base of pornographic CDs and DVDs. These have recently been diminished in a large operation by the police and customs, although this action has driven some shops to the office section of the building, with the products and customers causing distress to female workers there.

Langham Place, 4th floor

• Grand Century Place (新世紀廣場) - This is a new plaza next to the Mong Kok KCR station. Most of the famous-brand and popular shops can be found here. The plaza is especially crowded on public holidays and Sunday in Hong Kong. Due to the fact that it is the Mongkok station for KCR, hordes of China travelers going to Hongkong often sit around here making it seem very disgusting. They block the paths and put their shopping luggage everywhere as if it's their home.

• Mong Kok Computer Centre (旺角電腦中心)- This three-storey computer mall has around 50 to 70 computer shops. They sell various kinds of products including laptops, software, hardware and computer accessories.

• Langham Place (朗豪坊)- This shopping mall/hotel/office complex opened in 2004 in central Mong Kok. Built according to the Hong Kong Government urban redevelopment scheme, and at 59 stories high, it is the tallest landmark in Mong Kok.

• Mong Kok Centre (旺角中心) - This is a centre next to the Mong Kok MTR station. Most of the clothes and shoes sell at low prices. This centre is crowded everyday.

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Food

The Mong Kok area has many curb-side "food-booths". Most of them sell traditional snacks such as fish balls, fried beancurd (tofu) and various dim sum. These snacks and "fingerfood" are very popular in Hong Kong, especially for folks on the run. A portable night-time Tex-Mex street-food stand outside the Helsinki railway station, Finland. ... Tofu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), also called doufu (the Chinese Pinyin spelling often used in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin[1], made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. ... Dim sum (Chinese: 點心; Cantonese IPA: dɪm2sɐm1; Pinyin: diǎnxīn; Wade-Giles: tien-hsin; literally dot heart or order heart, meaning order to ones hearts content; also commonly translated as touch the heart, dotted heart, or snack), a Cantonese term...

In addition to the food, there are many different kinds of cuisines, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Thai food.

Transport

Traffic Congestion in Mong Kok

• Part of Nathan Road is in this area.
• Four rail lines serve the district.
• The MTR Tsuen Wan and Kwun Tong lines have two interchanges in this area: Prince Edward Station to the north and Mong Kok Station to the south.
• The Tung Chung Line of MTR has a through station west of the area in Tai Kok Tsui, named Olympic.
• KCR East Rail also has a station in the eastern part of the area.

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Mong Kok in popular culture

Mong Kok was the setting for the 2004 hit film One Night in Mongkok directed by Derek Yee. The movie portrays Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated places on Earth, as a hotbed of illicit activity. Similarly, the district was also the setting of the 1996 film Mongkok Story (Chinese: Wong gok fung wan) directed by Wilson Yip which depicts a young man who becomes involved in a Triad gang. [1][2] shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Derek Yee Tung Shing (Chinese: 爾冬陞) is a Hong Kong film director who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. ... This is a list of film-related events in 1996. ... Wilson Yip (Yip Wai-Shun) is a Hong Kong actor, film director and screenwriter. ... Triad (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; literally Triad Society) or (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; literally Black Society, a general term for criminal organizations) is a term that describes many branches of Chinese underground society and/or organizations based in Hong Kong and Macau and also operating in Taiwan, mainland...

External links

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• The unofficial guide on Hong Kong: Mongkok
• Flickr: Photos tagged with Mongkok