Fa Yuen Street is a street between Boundary Street

Boundary Street

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 and Dundas Street in Mong Kok

Mong Kok

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, Kowloon

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, Hong Kong

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. With over fifty stores selling sport shoes, the street is famous for selling sport gears and is known as Sport Shoes Street or Sneaker Street (波鞋街). Fa Yuen (花園) means "garden" in Cantonese

Standard Cantonese

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.

Fa Yuen Street is full of shops selling bargain-priced trendy fashion and casual wear for men, women and children and they usually open between 10:30 a.m. and 10:30 p.m. daily.

At one point of Fa Yuen Street, the road is closed off to private cars for the convenience of the fresh produce market, which sells a variety of exotic fruits and vegetables in the middle of the street. Directly adjacent to these produce stalls, located on the ground floors of the buildings lining Fa Yuen Street, are the cheapest clothing boutiques.

A much debated project of the Urban Renewal Authority

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 may modify the street substantially.

On 30th November 2011, a fire at a hawker stall spread to a housing flat resulting in 9 deaths and 34 injuried. The density of the market and residential buildings make this area prone to such fire tragedies.

See also

• Ho King Commercial Building
  Ho King Commercial Building
  Ho King Commercial Building and Ho King Shopping Centre are located at the junction of Fa Yuen Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Built in the 1980s, the lower levels of the shopping centre mainly sold video games and video game consoles in the early days...
  
  
• Tung Choi Street
  Tung Choi Street
  Tung Choi Street is a street situated between Boundary Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Its southern section, popularly known as Ladies' Market or Ladies' Street , is one of the most well-known street markets in Hong Kong, where various kinds of products are available for...
  
  
• List of streets and roads in Hong Kong