Step off the beaten path and meet the last artisans behind Hong Kong’s hand-carved mahjong tiles, neon signs, and flip clocks ...

A government crackdown on neon signs ... Hong Kong these days feel as if still in the pall of a plague, or a deep political malaise. Many of the tourists and resident foreigners are gone, the old ...

“The street was so colorful, picturesque and vibrant, but now nearly all colors have gone,” she said. The restaurant’s sign went to Tetra Neon Exchange, a nonprofit group in Hong Kong that ...

But it turned out that Chang had her own personal connection with Hong Kong’s street signs ... collecting old signs before they are taken away and destroyed. “It’s not that the government is targeting ...

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The neon signs that once illuminated Hong Kong have mostly gone dark ... He says that unlike the old neon masters, who largely made signs with just the name of the shop they advertised, he ...

For decades, Hong Kong ... both old and newer places can have interesting signs and art. Try to find hidden art that people might not usually pay attention to. Are there any neon signs near ...

There are illuminated neon signs everywhere in old areas of Hong Kong, and I adore them for the ... form of art since it blocks off sights of the road ahead and it could always be a hazard if ...

A fuchsia sign for a bridal shop, the Chinese "double happiness" character, a cool-blue flying dragon - luminous lights of dozens of neon signs removed from the streets of Hong Kong flickered on ...

It was never just about the neon, that cubist, consumerist razzle-dazzle cantilevered over Hong Kong’s ... bakery’s neon sign, dismantled last year. It was too big and too old, and not in ...