Fu Shin Street Wet Market — Local services in Hong Kong

This market might be old and shabby but was very important to the history of Tai Po. This market was historically known as ‘Tai Wo Market’ or ‘Tai Po New Town’ in contrary to the ‘Tai Po Market’ which situated on the Northern side of Lam Tsuen River. Tai Wo Market was developed in 1892 by the Tai Po Seven Alliance led by the Man clan of Tai Hang Village and aimed to break the monopoly of the Old Tai Po market formed by the Tang clans. From the map, you can tell that Tai Po is located at the centre of the New Territories and was at that time an important market town administrative centre. In 1910, Kowloon-Canton Railway stared its service and the Tai Po market station was situated next to Tai Wo Market. Up until 1980s, the station provide easy access to the market. However due to the electrification work on the train line, the Tai Po Market Station now move southward to now adjacent to the Uptown Plaza. The station next the Tai Wo market now becomes the Hong Kong Railway Museum. Though the train station has relocated, the wet market is still flourishing and full of people during day times. The Man Mo temple at the centre of the market is worth visiting. The balance in the temple was used to serve as a judge between sellers and customers. There are also a few bars situated around the market in case you wanna...

Or what we locals call it the old Tai Po Market (although "historically" this was the "New" market place and the newly renovated one where the library is is actually where the old market place used to be). Great old style market place that you can find just about anything from clothes to electronics to home wares, fresh vegetables and meat. You don't get many of these in Hong Kong nowadays...

Just note that if you're coming from the old railway station museum, the little shop on the right side that sells some electronic plug converters. Most work apart from the ones they sell for Europe purely because of the shape it's made (strange rectangular shaped) can't be fitted into the rounded plug shape in Europe. Tried letting the owners know nicely but then they got very angry and started yelling...

Apart from that the food produce is great in the market. Some sell local farmed produce and free range eggs which would be easier if you could read Chinese. You might also notice that some shops have cute cats roaming around. Don't be alarmed as they are the shop cat and very well...

One of the neat things to do in Hong Kong is visit a local street market where shops and street stalls are setup, selling vegetables, pork, seafood, dried sundries, candies and other consumables to local residents. You can find these type local markets through HK, including a really good example at Fu Shin Street in Taipo in the area of the historic Man Mo Temple and the Hong Kong Railway Museum.

The street is around two hundred metres in length and is very photogenic. Shop and stall-keepers don't mind you taking pictures of the food items. Lots of colourful and interesting foods that are popular locally but perhaps not something you will have seen in your home food and supermarkets. See...