Yau Ma Ti

See also: Yaumati

English

Proper noun

Yau Ma Ti

Alternative form of Yau Ma Tei
- 1986, Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy‎^[1], →OCLC, page 449:
  The assassin collapsed on the staircase as Bourne whipped out the cords and secured the killer to the steps and the railing, at the last yanking down the pillowcase, covering the impostor’s mouth and tying the cloth tighter. The nocturnal sounds of Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Ti and the nearby Mongkok would easily cover whatever cries Allcott-Price might manage - if he awoke before Jason awakened him, which was doubtful.
- 1994, Roger Grigsby, “Tour No. 3, Hong Kong: A Trip to the Outlying Islands—Hong Kong to Lantau Island and back”, in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike)‎^[2], The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 121:
  Get up early and work your way back up to Shanghai Street and Reclamation Road in the Yau Ma Ti District. This area is the scene of lively produce markets and wholesale fruit markets in the morning.
- 2009, Stanley S.K. Kwan, Nicole Kwan, “New China”, in The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)‎^[3], Hong Kong University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
  His knowledge of both Hong Kong and the Mainland made a deep impression on me during the hour we spent over lunch. Huang had learned Cantonese from his wife, who studied Chinese medicine in Guangzhou during the 1940s, and now owned a Chinese herbal medicine shop in the Yau Ma Ti district.
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