Mong Kok in childhood

I am a post-70s generation. Although my home is in Tai Hang Tung, I often went to Mong Kok when I was a child. The following are some of the landmark places in Mong Kok that I remember from time to time:

•Dragon Phoenix Restaurant: When I was a child, my family often went to drink tea. The restaurant is a four- or five-storey building with a layout a bit like the Lu Yu Tea Room in Central; one of the first floors has a horizontal column by the window for tea guests to hang the bird cages they brought. We usually don't go to this floor, but go to the upper floor to spend 1-2 hours.

• Qionghua Restaurant: not to drink tea, but to buy sachima, a kind of snack, on horse racing day.

• China Overseas Chinese Products Company: Parents go to buy shoes, clothes, china and other department stores.

• Hu Shesheng Xing: The top floor is the first revolving restaurant in Hong Kong.

•Shen Deng Seafood Restaurant: Because Dad likes seafood and stir-fry, he often goes to dinner on Sundays.

• Shanghai Street: Mom and Dad often take me to this street on Sundays. What impressed me most was a store that sold second-hand books.

• Transfer point: then to go to my grandmother's house in Lai King, I have to take bus No. 45 to Mong Kok; I have to go to Hong Kong Children's Choir in Oi Man Village on Saturday to learn to sing, then I go to Mong Kok to take a minibus.