Set up on Mong Kok's busiest pedestrian street with tables and chairs borrowed from a nearby tutoring centre, Raymond Wong Wai-ming is offering free counselling. To his surprise, quite a few people sit down to talk about their concerns.
Wong, 45, caught public attention a few years ago after the press wrote about his decision to give up his job to care for his two children at home while his librarian wife, Gloria Ko Siu-fan, 44, provided for the family.
Few realise, however, that this is his second marriage. He married at 20 and had a son with his first wife, but they divorced after seven years.
'I was always trying to win, and pretended that tension didn't exist in my family,' Wong recalls. 'But eventually it surfaced. We went through periods of silence, arguments and fights ... at its worst I even hit my first wife. I still regret it.'
Wong and his wife got the idea to set up as roadside counsellors after seeing a photo exhibition by Falun Gong followers. Worried the pictures of persecution would weigh on stressed-out city folk, they decided to do something about it last month by offering Wong's personal experience as a way to help others.
'It feels vulnerable to open up to strangers on the street, but I feel compelled when I see so many people turning their emotional burdens into madness,' he says.