The Worrying Potential Demise of Mongkok Flower Market

Posted: January 29th, 2026 | No Comments »

The fragrant and charming Mongkok Flower Market is defined by its streets of low-rise, traditional street-level shops, just by some stunning art-deco on Prince Edward Road West. It’s a delightful, bustling local market.

So, of course, Hong Kong’s ever-meddling, rarely-improving, Urban Renewal Authority (URA) wishes to trash it with one of its invariably horrid “redevelopment plans”. Where you can still see small flourishing businesses, cafes, human scale life, they see yet more malls, bland indoor markets and fake canals. What a disaster, if it happens.

But for now at least you can wander the market, admire the shophouses and see the adjacent art-deco apartment buildings on my VoiceMap walking tour of Kowloon’s art deco treasures and hidden local gems….click here….

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