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Sai Yee Street () is a street in
Sai Yee Street () is a street in Mong Kok
Mong Kok (also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK) is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok.
Mong Kok is one of the major shopping areas in Hong Kong. The area is characterised ...
, Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
.
It runs south from Soy Street
Soy Street () is a street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It starts from Tak Cheong Street in the west, crosses several major streets including Nathan Road, and ends near Waterloo Road.
The section between Nathan Road and Sai Yeung Choi Str ...
and ends north at Boundary Street
Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It runs in an easterly direction from its start at the intersection with Tung Chau Street in the west, and ends at its intersection with Prince Edward Road#Prince Edw ...
. It is almost parallel to a number of other streets, including Tung Choi Street
Tung Choi Street () is a street situated between south of Sai Yeung Choi Street and Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the most well-known street markets in Hong Kong. Its southern section, popularly known as Ladies' Ma ...
and Fa Yuen Street
Fa Yuen Street () is a street between Boundary Street and Dundas Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. With over fifty stores selling sport shoes, the street is famous for selling sport gear and is known as ''Sport Shoes Street'' or ''Sneake ...
. The street runs one-way due north between Dundas Street and Argyle Street and two-ways between Argyle and Boundary Streets.
In 2019, the government planned to rename the street as Tiu Fu street (跳付街).
History
Where Sai Yee Street is located today was originally a small stream that served as the main irrigation source for watercress fields in what was then Mong Kok Village (). In the 1920s, the farmlands were leveled to make way for residential buildings. Some women living near the stream started to provide clothes washing services for the residents using the stream water. Residents called the trail along the stream Sai Yee Street ("Clothes-Washing Street" in English). In the 1930s, the government truncated the streams derived from Boundary Street and turned it into an underground sewer. The street was laid over the underground stream. The brook ceased to exist but the name Sai Yee Street remains.See also
*Argyle Street Waterworks Depot
The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot () was a building of the Water Supplies Department located in Mong Kok, Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong.
Location
The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot was located in Mong Kok, at the intersection of Argyle St ...
References
*External links
* Mong Kok Roads in Kowloon {{HongKong-road-stub