Fading Marketplaces：Midnight Market in Shum Shui Po, a market cannot be “found”

In Hong Kong, on the streets near Pei Ho street market in Shum Shui Po, a few hawkers set up their “stalls” at 10 p.m. every night. To reduce illegal hawking activities in streets, Hong Kong government will take enforcement action. So that, hawkers usually start trading after 10:30 p.m. and hoping that the Hawker Control Team will not take action that night. They sell secondhand goods and even things which found in trash. Still, people will buy those goods in low prices as many of them live in subdivided units and live on Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA). They like to hang around the market at that time, so as to relax and purchase some daily necessities. We interviewed a few “hawkers”, including teenagers, middle-aged women and students who first experienced to be hawkers. Those special stories will be shown
in this episode.