With its car-free streets, understated low-rise houses and plentiful greenery, Peng Chau looks very much like many of Hong Kong's outlying islands. It enjoys a reputation as a rural idyll cut off from the city's hustle and bustle.
Islanders are widely thought to lead simple, reclusive lives. That is probably why Peng Chau made headlines recently, when news broke of flats trading hands at prices akin to those on Hong Kong Island.
But Peng Chau has never been merely a pastoral haven. Remote it may be, but the island once bristled with industrial activities. It hosted factories making more than 30 types of goods (such as teakwood furniture and textiles) and Southeast Asia's biggest match factory.
Chung Yuet-ngor's life echoes the changes that have swept over Peng Chau in recent decades. Born and raised on the island, the 57-year-old worked at an island knitwear factory during her teens.
Today she works as a cleaner in Discovery Bay, like many fellow islanders. It was one of the few options left as the factories closed and moved to urban Hong Kong and the mainland.
Peng Chau was once a self-sufficient community that rarely felt the need to be in touch with the outside world, Chung says. 'People rarely left Peng Chau, except for the vegetable growers who had to take their produce to sell in places like Central or Hung Hom.'