Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market — Attraction in Hong Kong

Very busy place in Hong Kong especially in mid night when all the ship loaded their goods into truck and distribute to this wholesale fruit market. Many stacks of food everywhere on the road makes 3 routes combine into 1. Seems people are getting used to it, car, trolleys and pedestrians are moving slowing and gently.

Wholesale prize is difference everyday depends on numbers of stocks, quality and seasonable hot sale. I bought a box with 9 bundles of grapes with HKD$1450 last week, this week is HKD$1350. Maybe due to current situation in Hong Kong.

Bargaining is the only skill you needed in this area, the strategy should be target a type of fruit you wanted to buy, ask the prize with condition (such as if I buy few boxes) and walk around with same questions on other shop. Pick a shop you like their attitude and try to do a final bargain like less HKD$100 or HKD$50, then BINGO and walk away with your fruit.

We came here today to buy some fruit to share and give to the village’s elders at a night after Mid Autumn Festival which called “Chasing Moon” , we walked for an hour and bought:

4 boxes of Taiwanese grapefruits 1 box of banana 1 box with 9 bundles of grapes 2 boxes of dragon fruits

(I didn’t take photo of the fruit, let me supplement later if my...

The Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market is a Grade II historic building (designated in 2009) that is spread out over several blocks along Reclamation Street and Waterloo Road in Yau Ma Tei. The market was founded in 1913 as a food market. However, over time vegetable and seafood traders have long moved out, making this almost exclusively a fruit market at this time.

You can walk along the market small shops and stalls and see a nice range and variety of regional fruit as well as those grown in countries further afield. The market can be rather busy at times but makes for attractive viewing and nice picture taking for those interested in seeing a local food market here in Hong Kong. The market is open from 6am...

Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market consists of a rectangular site packed with market stalls and shophouses, one and two stories high. Originally the upper floors were living accommodation but now most upper floors are used for storage and rest rooms. They are largely built of brick or stone with covered pedestrian walkways or arcades formed by projecting balconies of upper floors.

The most distinctive feature of the Market is the unusual use of Dutch Colonial gables and pediments, and the carvings of traders’ brand names on pediments or tablets of the gables. In spite of their similarity in structural material, width of shop front and storey height, they formed a symbol and characteristic of the...