Hung Hom
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Etymology
From Cantonese 紅磡／红磡 (hung4 ham3).
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Hung Hom
- An area in Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit:
- But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.
- 2019 August 18, Stephen Vines, “Hong Kong to defy ban on protest as fear of crackdown looms”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on December 25, 2022:
- A smaller protest in Hung Hom, a district of outlet stores popular with mainland tourists, highlighted the growing tension between Hong Kong people and their mainland compatriots with protesters chanting, “Kick out the mainland tourists!”
- 2019 November 18, “HKFP Lens: Hong Kong PolyU engulfed in fierce police-protester battles, as officers enter campus”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 17 February 2021:
- Riot police entered the campus of the Polytechnic University in Hung Hom in the early hours of Monday morning following an almost day-long battle between demonstrators and police.