Aberdeen Harbour and the Fishing Community
Aberdeen Harbour remains a working maritime landscape where fishing boats, shipyards, markets and tour routes share the typhoon shelter.
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Back to the selectionMorning Routines by Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market
Aberdeen Promenade runs beside the wholesale fish market, where the harbour’s daily work and public waterfront meet.
A Theatre Built for the Festival
Bamboo poles and timber beams turn an open site into a temporary theatre, bringing performance and ritual into the heart of a community.
One Basin at the Centre of the Table
In New Territories village traditions, sek pun brings shared food into occasions of kinship, ritual and collective recognition.
The Blue House Cluster and Living Heritage
The Blue House cluster’s revitalisation retains residential use and hosts community cultural activity, placing daily life at the centre of heritage reuse.
From Wah To Hospital to a Wan Chai Tenement
The Blue House site was once home to Wah To Hospital, listed in the 1872 rate book, before the address became residential.
Boat Noodles and Aberdeen’s Fishing Memory
Lau Kee Boat Noodles, established in 1981, serves dried-flounder broth from a food boat in Aberdeen, where a broader fishing heritage is interpreted today.
Bruce Lee Beyond the Yellow Tracksuit
Books, letters and training objects at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum reveal the private work behind Bruce Lee’s public image.
From Quarantine Pens to an Arts Village
The former Ma Tau Kok animal quarantine depot moved from slaughter and inspection work to studios, exhibitions and a public arts park.
Tai Kwun and the Machinery of Colonial Law
Within one Central compound, barracks, a police headquarters, courts and a prison placed several instruments of colonial rule side by side.
The Praya Reclamations in Central
Two reclamation periods, from 1843–1865 and 1890–1904, pushed Central’s waterfront northward and left plaques as markers of the changing edge.
The Shape of a Hong Kong Cheongsam
Chalk lines, an iron and repeated fitting show how Hong Kong’s cheongsam tailors turn flat cloth into a dress shaped for one person.