It’s a Small World After All
Sep 02, 2022
4 minutes
By Zabrina Lo.
Portraits by Affa Chan
or the month of July, the top floor of Central Market was turned into a wonderland in which everything had shrunk. There was a miniature Wan Chai Blue House with real-life details as intricate as the numbers and symbols marked on the wooden staircase and a criss-cross network of electrical wires mounted on the building’s exterior; a downsized Wing Wo Grocery on Wellington Street with more than 100 tiny bottles of vinegar, soy sauce and rice wine; a toy shop selling plastic “watermelon” footballs found in the 1970s; the now-closed Kam Kee Bakery, which used to sell old-style Chinese pastries; and the King of Kowloon with his calligraphy.
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