I RETURNED to Hong Kong this December to discover, with sadness, that it has once taken another step closer to reaching the uniformity of other cities round the world.
Late-night shopping you can find anywhere. But Tsim Sha Tsui hawkers, with their colourful trolleys and breathtakingly cheap offers, you can only find in Hong Kong.
However, on my return, I searched for these stalls in vain, because the Hong Kong police keep chasing traders away.
Once you could find hundreds of these vendors and their stalls but now there are only a few shops, with frustrated owners and their staff standing on the street trying to drum up custom.
Shopping around Tsim Sha Tsui at night used to be an adventure and one visit was never enough. Now this is no longer the case.
Hong Kong's police officers should not chase away these hard-working hawkers from the streets. To do so is not in the interests of the territories' retail and tourist industries.
