Apliu Street () is a street in the

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area of

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Location

Apliu Street runs parallel to

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between

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and

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. An easy way to reach it is to get off at the MTR

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. Use the A2 or C2 exit and you will be ascending directly into Apliu Street.

Name

The Cantonese name "apliu" (鴨寮) comes from a village which was formerly located nearby but has long since been buried underneath the

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of Sham Shui Po.

Retail

Apliu Street is home to a bustling street market selling

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, and related items. A shopper can find both new and used merchandise in the area. Apliu Street is well known for geek shopping, and at one time it had an unsavoury reputation as a "thieves' market".Jason Wordie, ''Streets: Exploring Kowloon'' (

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, 2007), , pp. 146-150
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. While Apliu Street is famous for electronic parts, the

Golden Shopping Arcade Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui P ...

on the opposite side of

is famous for

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, video games, and related items.

Trivia

Apliu Street and Kweilin Street Junction

The shop ''Kong Wah Telecom (HK) Limited'' (near the junction of Kweilin Street) was a site of the Detour in the eleventh leg of the reality TV show ''

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''.

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