https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo JOUR7040 Multimedia Journalism en-us 2020-10-27 08:55:45 UTC 2025-05-17 00:26:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/725111389/0d562d295450c8413d3297302276d8b5/IMG_2098.JPG chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915263044 "Gwo Laan" experienced a century of historical changes from 1920. The architecture in Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market was recognized as a Grade III historic building in 1990 and changed to Grade II historic building in 2009 by Antiquities Advisory Board. Nowadays, we can still discover some of the buildings with pre-war styles inside the market like "Sau Wo Laan" and squatters. 

The Planning Department suggested urban renewal in the Wholesale Fruit Market in 1999, fruit wholesale industry rejected to leave Yau Ma Tei. So that, the valuable appearance of “Gwo Laan” can be retained until today.

People keep working for 24 hours from the retail period in the daytime to the wholesale period at the nighttime. By offering the market demand, many wholesalers changed their business model to retail from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. 

Although the wholesales declined to about 200, “Gwo Laan” also can represent how Hong Kong people adopt the new market environment. No matter how the people and market mode change, Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market also showed how Hong Kong people work with the combatant spirit in those long working hours.]]> 2020-11-12 06:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915263044 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915749826 Workers were still cutting the "Xinhui mandarins" peels in Waterloo Road next to the fruit market car park from the morning to the evening on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-12 09:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915749826 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915753502 Worker delivered the new stock from Waterloo Road for preparing the wholesale period at night on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-12 09:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915753502 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915761378 More people were shopping at the fruit retail shops in Shek Lung Street in the evening on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-12 09:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/915761378 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920907289 Retailers in Reclamation Street were cutting the peels of "Xinhui mandarins" and sell it to the customers on Nov. 5, 2020. Peels of "Xinhui mandarins" is a kind of Chinese medicine.]]> 2020-11-13 16:59:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920907289 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920910930 Wai-Kong Tang, a 59-year-old retailer from "Tai Chung Fruit Shop" in Shek Lung Street sold a bag of oranges to the customer on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:00:10 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920910930 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920914955 Kam-Luen Ng, a 50-year-old retailer from "Tai Chung Fruit Shop" in Shek Lung Street picked papaya in the warehouse for making the fruit hamper on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920914955 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920920194 Retailer was refilling the fruit when there were more customers come to Shek Lung Street in the evening on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920920194 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920922402 The retailer introduced different kinds of "Xinhui mandarins" peels to customers, more squatters can be found at the end of Shek Lung Street on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920922402 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920924922 The Waterloo Road's empty warehouse inside the wholesale shop with a logo of "Del Monte Quality" on the wall on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920924922 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920938059 "King of Golden Fruit" has the new decoration rather than other traditional retail fruit shops, but it is still a renovate construction under the Squatters. Sellers put different kinds of fruit for customers to pick during the retail period on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920938059 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920944111 Squatters still exist in the fruit market, the oldest temporary housing built by sheet metal and wood board in Hong Kong. This is the retail period in the fruit market during the day time on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920944111 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920948606 A worker used a folding trolley to deliver the "Xinhui mandarins" in Shek Lung Street, the peak season of "Xinhui mandarins" on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920948606 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920955383 The wholesale shops closed during the daytime in Waterloo Road, more graffiti can be found in the fruit market on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920955383 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920957949 The wholesale shop in Waterloo Road opened to arrange more empty spaces for accommodating new goods on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920957949 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920961570 There are more new stocks arrived at Waterloo Road, the wholesale period started on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920961570 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920963937 A worker finished several times of delivery and back to Waterloo Road on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920963937 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920965610 A truck stopped in Waterloo Road, workers packed many boxes of fruit and delivered them to the wholesale shop on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920965610 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920970209 All wholesale shops opened at the midnight, a lot of stocks in "Sau Wo Laan" were located at the junction of Reclamation Street and Waterloo Road on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/920970209 chankmayan https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/921101207 "Sau Wo Laan" is the Grade III historical building and the entrance of Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market where located at the junction of Reclamation Street and Waterloo Road on Nov. 5, 2020.]]> 2020-11-13 17:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/chankmayan/20443056_photo/wish/921101207