Ngau Chi Wan
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cantonese 牛池灣 / 牛池湾 (ngau4 ci4 waan1).
Proper noun
[edit]Ngau Chi Wan
- An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2008, “Residental”, in Matt Davies, editor, P & T Group: 140 Years of Architecture in Asia (The Master Architect Series)[1], The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
- Arising from a limited design competition, this winning scheme for residential accommodation at Ngau Chi Wan is located on a narrow strip of sloping land in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2017, Scott Tong, “Lost and Found: Grandmother's Voice on Cassette”, in A Village with My Name: A Family History of China's Opening to the World[2], University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:
- With hindsight, the decision of Mildred and then her children to escape to Hong Kong was a no-brainer. […]
They settled in a sordid shantytown known as Ngau Chi Wan, alongside thousands of other mainlanders.
- 2017 November 7, Christopher DeWolf, “The stories behind Hong Kong districts: Ngau Chi Wan and Choi Hung – from lively rural village to the first low-cost housing estate”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2017, Travel & Leisure[4]:
- It’s late afternoon in Bo Fuk, a neighbourhood cha chaan teng in the East Kowloon village of Ngau Chi Wan, and a crowd of regulars has assembled for tea. “We’ve been coming here for about 10 years,” says a man sitting with his son. Why? He laughs. “It’s cheap!”
- 2022 February 14, Hillary Leung, “‘It’s a mess’: Covid-19 cases at dozens of Hong Kong care homes as elderly quarantine facilities overwhelmed”, in Hong Kong Free Press[5], archived from the original on 10 March 2022, Hong Kong:
- At the Wan Luen Home for Elderly (Yen Chow Street) in Sham Shui Po – where at least four residents were earlier infected – employees who tested positive using rapid antigen tests waited for up to six days to be sent to a hospital, HK01 reported.
Residents at Choi Wan Elderly Home in Ngau Chi Wan also experienced similar delays.