Meaning of Tsim Sha Tsui | Babel Free

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An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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“This arrangement will, however, be found to be of very little use until the Observatory is placed in direct communication with the telegraph offices in Hong Kong, as the connections between the police stations generally break down in bad weather,[…] In the course of the summer of 1884 the writer invented and started a system of meteorological signals, which continue to be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball tower at Tsim-sha-tsui.”

“Think of Tsimshatsui and you think shopping! This is Kowloon's internationally renowned shopping district, where anything can be bought at the right price.”

“But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.”

“Saturday’s march — the ninth weekend of sustained protests — deviated from a route authorized by police and went into the tourist-heavy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, which looks onto Victoria Harbor.[…] Tsim Sha Tsui is where dozens of Hong Kong’s luxury hotels and malls are located and is popular with foreign tourists.”

“The march ended in violent exchanges, with Hong Kong police firing tear gas canisters at protesters from inside a police station in Tsim Sha Tsui.”

“Shop rents on the upper section of Fifth Avenue in New York remain the dearest in the world, with the average up 7 per cent this year to $2,000 per sq ft. Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong, is the second most expensive area, with rents of $1,436 per sq ft.”

“Onlookers flocked to the waterfront neighborhood of Tsim Sha Tsui to take in the spectacle, as the flames made their way through the skyscraper and the scaffolding around it and explosions pierced the air.”

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