Yaumati

See also: Yau Ma Ti

English

Proper noun

Yaumati

1. Alternative form of Yau Ma Tei
   • 2003 December 14, Steven Knipp, “One Expert's Picks: Six Great Things to Do”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2023‎^[2]:

     Temple Street night market. Nowhere is the ambiance of old Hong Kong more potent than in Kowloon's Yaumati district.

   • 2009 April 1, Kabir Chibber, “Store Review: G.O.D. in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 January 2016, Travel‎^[4]:

     All of Hong Kong’s influences are there to be seen, with cricket sweaters sitting next to varsity jackets and silk ties with prints of tenement buildings in the Mong Kok and Yaumati districts.

   • 2016, David T. K. Wong, “A Dusty Road”, in Collected Hong Kong Stories‎^[5], Blacksmith Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 178:

     When the income proved insufficient to support herself and a child, she drifted into prostitution. As her looks went, she found herself on a downward spiral. She ended up in one of those low dives along Temple Street in Yaumati.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Yaumati.