San Po Kong
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Cantonese 新蒲崗 / 新蒲岗 (san1 pou4 gong1).
Proper noun
[edit]San Po Kong
- An area in Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-21[2]:
- Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.
- 2014, Michael Bishton, chapter 1, in The Island[3], Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
- In the image presented was the look of a district: that of the industrial quarter in Hong Kong called San Po Kong. […]
Massive sliding doors characterised these fearsome shops opening to the street. It was the pattern too with the other manufacturing premises continuing on along the narrow industrial thoroughfares of San Po Kong.
- 2019 May 14, Donny Kwok, Shellin Li, Yilei Sun, “Tesla car catches fire in Hong Kong parking lot: media”, in James Pomfret, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters[4], archived from the original on May 14, 2019, Technology News[5]:
- The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage.
- 2019 December 9, Christopher DeWolf, “Hong Kong neighbourhood where spark for 1967 riots was lit, San Po Kong once again playing role in protest – as host of talks on freedom, and humour in hard times”, in South China Morning Post[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-09, Travel & Leisure[7]:
- Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time.