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Earning a living on the streets

Photos by Cheng Ying
Text by Label Lee
     Streets are not restricted to vehicles and pedestrians, but are also the business world of hawkers. Ancient Chinese crafts can be seen practiced on street corners, and street sales thus seem to be a way for the craftsmanship to be preserved.
     Besides, trenches near food shops are convenient water sources.
     The vast amount of street business accounts for most of the rubbish that street cleaners have to contend with.

Some Chinese utensils are still handmade by experienced elderly workers.

Washing food outdoors beside a busy street.

Kerbside sales of Chinese herbal medicine.

Heung pin, shou mei, chasiubaau, fuhngjaau

        January 1998

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