Lei Yue Mun ‘Carp Fish Gate’

Famous for its quarry, fisherman came to the bay to sell their catch to workers and locals.

In the 1960s the first seafood restaurants opened, the typhoon shelter filled with boats and the area developed as an industrial centre.

‘Indigenous dwellers’ who have lived there for 2 to 3 generations are descendants not a fisherman but of miners.

The appetite for seafood grew and soon thee area was attracting tourists to the new cluster of seafood restaurants.

Local residents living on land abandon their farms and started to sell fish.

By the 1980s the Hong Kong Tourist Board sung the areas praises with a postcolonial tourist push planned for beyond 1997.