Short Sham Chun Street is a scene of a pandemic movie
Sham Chun Street is a short and old street with a traditional wet market in Mong Kok Kowloon.
Sham Chun Street is short.
The short Sham Chun Street lies across the busy Argyle Street.
It cannot reflect the fast and amazing development of the neighbor of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (“Sham Chun” is actually the old spelling of Shenzhen. It is now the Special Economic Zone, IT Center and financial Center in Mainland China.)
40 years ago, Shenzhen might look like Sham Chun Street. Now it is a prosperous city.
It is actually the scene of the blockbuster pandemic movie Contagion (2011).
Short Sham Chun Street is a scene of a pandemic movie
Two local Hong Kong movie stars even show up in the movie.
In the movie and the real world, vaccine is the dawn for people under the pandemic.
Frank the tour guide hopes everything can get back to normal step by step in 2021.
Urban redevelopment may change the environment of Sham Chun Street soon.
Travelers can come back to Hong Kong to TIY, tour Sham Chun Street yourselves, to see Kowloon’s busy, noisy and messy side.
Sham Chun Street is not very clean.
Travelers can take Frank’s Kowloon private car tour to see Kowloon’s beautiful side.
The infected waiter falls ill at Sham Chun Street in Contagion
The blockbuster Hollywood movie Contagion is directed by the famous Steven Soderbergh.
Matt Demon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet etc. co-star the movie.
Sham Chun Street is actually a wet market.
Hong Kong actor Tien You Chui acts the waiter, Li Fai.
Sham Chun Street’s cooked food shop.
He is infected in the Macau casino and brings the deadly virus to Hong Kong.
After seeing his sister (actress Josie Ho, who is the daughter of the then Macau casino tycoon, Stanley Ho, acts Li Fai’s sister), he leaves his home.
The busy, noisy and messy Sham Chun Street.
He falls ill and loses consciousness gradually.
At last he is knocked down by a lorry!
Li Fai falls sick at Sham Chun Street.
Li is knocked down by a lorry!
Li Fai is knocked down by the lorry at this spot in the movie.
The scene is the Sham Chun Street, which is busy, noisy and messy.
Vaccine is the dawn of returning to normality in the movie and reality
Similar to the movie, at the end of 2020, the Western, Chinese and Russian vaccines bring hope to the pandemic-stricken world.
Frank the tour guide hopes the vaccines can bring the world back to normal gradually in 2021.
Thus travelers can return to Hong Kong to TIY, tour Sham Chun Street yourselves, to see the busy, noisy and messy side of Kowloon.
Travelers can also take Frank’s Kowloon private car tour to see the beautiful side of Kowloon Peninsula.
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Kowloon cultural Highlights private car tour highlights
Kowloon cultural Highlights private car tour
Private car tour for cultural highlights of Kowloon. Tour programme includes…
- English / Mandarin / Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned sightseeing car with driver
- A local dim sum / Hong Kong style tea break
Hong Kong Island & Kowloon full day private car tour highlights
Hong Kong Island Kowloon full day private car tour
Full day private car tour for Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. Tour programme includes…
- English / Mandarin / Cantonese speaking private tour guide service
- Air-conditioned sightseeing car with driver
- One-way Peak Tram ride
- Sampan ride at Aberdeen
- One-way public ferry ride
- Local dim sum lunch
For further questions, please contact Frank
