With avian flu raging in Asia, chicken sellers working in Causeway Bay market were putting on a brave face yesterday.
'There's no need to be afraid of bird flu in Hong Kong,' said stallholder Mr Lam as he served a customer.
'It's all over there, in South Korea and Japan. They're so careful in Hong Kong - if these chickens were sick, I wouldn't be allowed to sell them.'
The market was quiet but well-scrubbed and dry, with only a handful of people roaming past the rows of fish tanks, disembodied pigs' feet and clucking poultry.
A woman stallholder, Mrs Ng, said: 'These chickens got jabbed [inoculated] twice before they reached the market, and they also did a blood test on some of them.
'I'm telling you, these chickens have it better than the humans who look after them!' she said.
