Culture

To get to know Hung Hom, you should take a look the funeral district around Cheong Hang Road, Kowloon City Road, Lou Long Hang Street, and Beiket Street. This area has numerous funeral-related shops, including funeral parlors, coffin shops, and flower shops. Among them, the Grand Hall of the Universal Funeral Parlour is one of…

If you want to watch Cantonese opera, you can enjoy a variety of performances at the Ko Shan Theatre! Completed in 1983, Ko Shan Theatre boasts excellent facilities and is an ideal venue for cultural and artistic performances as well as community activities. To enhance its reputation as a dedicated venue for Cantonese opera, the…

On April 14th every year, you’re welcome to join the Songkran Festival in Kowloon City! For the Thai people, Songkran symbolizes the beginning of the new year, akin to our traditional Chinese New Year. They wear new clothes, bathe the Buddha, express gratitude for the Buddha’s blessings over the past year, and pray for peace…

Many people who have visited Kowloon City might have encountered Thai and South Asian on the streets, but do you know that Kowloon City was once a settlement for people from Fujian, too? It turns out that the present-day Fuk Lo Tsun Road was formerly known as “Fuk Lo Village,” inhabited mostly by immigrants from…

Lux Theatre in Hung Hom is a blast from the past — the interior design retains vestiges of the 1970s era, manual seating plans and surprisingly affordable ticket prices. Located on Bulkeley Street, the establishment first opened its doors in 1971, and underwent a major refurbishment in 2012. But traces of bygone eras remain, including…

If you’re visiting Kowloon City in the seventh lunar month, you won’t want to miss the remarkable Yu Lan Festival – the city’s intangible cultural heritage, which is annually held by Chiu Chow community in Hong Kong. Yu Lan Festival runs for the entire seventh lunar month is one of the most historic and popular…

Walking along Hoi Sham Park, you can experience a different side of To Kwa Wan waterfront – the sunset sea view of Hoi Sham Park as spectacular as the West Lake in China, the famous Fishtail Rock which brings you blissful love and marriage, the Jiuqu Bridge which offers you a colorful glimpse of Hong…

The Kwun Yum Temple in Hung Hom comes alive hours before the 26th day of the first lunar month, when the Kwun Yum Treasury is said to open. Armed with incense and offerings, more than 1,000 worshipers flood the halls of the temple to pray for good fortune in the coming year. The folk tradition…

Enjoy the fabulous parade to celebrate the birthday of Tin Hau! Since 1992, Kowloon City has been celebrating the birthday of the goddess Tin Hau on the 22nd day of the third lunar month, when Chiu Chow yingge folk dancers would lead a parade through the historical streets of the district as the Argyle Street…

If you want to witness traditional ancestral worship rituals, you need not have to trek to rural villages instead you can see it right here in Kowloon City! Every year on the 12th day of the 12th lunar month, descendants of the Kwok family from various places hold a worship ceremony to commemorate their ancestor,…