Apliu Street, a great place for treasure hunts, satisfy men's shopping desires. It is famous for selling cheap electronic products. There are many small grocery stores, which are a famous street in Hong Kong.

Apliu Street, also known as Electric Street, is located in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. As early as the 19th century, there was no such street. Apliu Street was just a sea. The coastal area was farmland and fish ponds. The Hong Kong Government reclamation the land in order to increase the land. A lot of duck farming has been developed. Later, the Sham Shui Po District was included as an urban development zone. Many new roads need to be built, so this street was born. Apliu Street was named after many duck farms.

After 1930, Hong Kong's economy just started and the people's lives were not good. Therefore, many people would take out the old items in their homes and sell them to earn living expenses. Apliu Street began to sell second-hand goods at that time. In the 1970s, Apliu Street became a distribution center for electronic components and began selling audio equipment, hardware and electronics. In the 1980s, some electronics owners got rich, their business entered the Pearl River Delta in China, and the telecom industry in Hong Kong took off quickly, establishing billions of electronic enterprise groups market. With the economic take-off, audio has become a high-end product for men. At that time, as long as you talked about audio, you must mention "Ap."

The biggest feature of Apliu Street is these booths. In the early days, only booths and trolleys were placed in the center of the road. I have also operated these booths before. A booth is set up every day and the trolley will be pushed back to warehouses in the building at night.

In 2011, a fire broke out in Garden Street, Mong Kok. The government transformed all the stalls into small iron stores and divided them into more than 200 small iron stores.

All stores are only 120 cm x 90 cm. They are very small. Because the store is small, they can only sell small items. Now they sell special products such as some novel digital products, rechargeable flashlights, electronic parts and accessories, cameras equipment, cell phones, wire and battery cables, transformers, LED lighting, electric drills, used appliances, game consoles, vinyl records, travel phone cards, mini-controlled car planes, even some antique groceries, watches, old coins, old records and old magazines…

I am also a frequent visitor here, because the products here are popular, I often bought audio speakers in the 80s, walkman, CD player, MP3 player, and now I often buy some mobile phones and camera supplies, because there are a lot of special ones here, grey market mobile phones are rarely found outside. Many foreign tourists like to buy some camera equipment, mobile phone wiring, etc. because they are all $20 to $40 HKD, very cheap.

You will see some old people on the side street, they bring the old items to the ground and sell them. They are like the foreign garages sell, the items they find at home or in the garbage, so maybe you can find some antique treasures here.

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今日我一燈帶大家逛一逛鴨寮街，鴨寮街俗稱“鴨記”，是滿足男士購物慾望的好去處，專門售賣平价電子產品而聞名，這裏有大大小小的雜貨店鋪，是香港很有名的一條小街道。

鴨寮街又稱電器街，位於香港九龍深水埗，早在19世紀，原本是没有鴨寮街這條街道的，鴨寮街只是一片大海，沿海一帶為農田、魚塘，香港政府為了增加土地而填海，之後又發展了很多養鴨業，其後深水埗區納入為城市發展區，需要興建很多新道路，所以這條街就這樣誕生了，鴨寮街因為很多鴨寮因而得名。

1930年後，香港經濟初起步，市民生活水平不高，所以不少人會將家中的舊用品拿出來變賣，好賺取一角兩毛維持生計，鴨寮街開始便多人售賣二手物品了，曾被視為九龍的摩羅街。到了70年代，鴨寮街慢慢變成為電子零件集散地，開始銷售音響、五金、電子產品為主的市場，80年代開始一些電子產品的老板越做越大，業務去到珠三角，加上香港電信產業急促起飛，成就了一班市值幾十億的電子企業集團，經濟起飛，音響成為男士們的高檔玩意，當時只要講起音響就必定提"鴨記”。

鴨寮街其最大特色的就是這些檔攤，早期只是一些排檔及車仔檔擺放於馬路中心，我以前也經營過這些小排檔，"朝行晚拆”收檔後還要把車仔推回大廈裏面的一些小倉庫，因為2011年旺角花園街的奪命大火，為了減低火警風險，政府把所有排檔重建成小型的鐵皮鋪位，劃分成200多個小型檔口，所有店鋪只有120釐米乘90釐米面積，非常細小，因為店鋪細小，所以他們只能售賣一些小小小型的產品，現在售賣的東西都很特別，例如一些新奇數碼產品，充電手提電筒、電子零件配件、攝影相機器材、手機、電線電池連接線、變壓器、LED燈飾、電鑽、舊電器、遊戲機、膠唱片、旅遊電話卡、迷你遙控車飛機，甚至一些古董雜貨，腕錶、舊錢幣、舊唱片、舊雜誌等等，總之想到的有，想不到的都會有。

基本上我也是這裏的常客，因為這裏賣的產品比較大眾平民化，80年代經常來買的音響喇叭，由卡式機walkman到cd機、mp3機，到了現在也經常來買一些手機及相機用品，因為這裏有很多很特別的水貨手機，在外邊很少找得到的，很多外國遊客喜歡在這裏購買一些相機器材、手機接線等因為都是三四十元，非常便宜。

如果你細心留意一下就會看見橫街還有一些公公婆婆，他們就把一些舊用品放在地上售賣，就有如外國的車房擺賣，把自己家中無用的物品或在垃圾房撿回來的物品通通放在街上擺賣為生，所以說不定你可以在這裏尋找到一些古董寶物。

All pictures I took when I was in Hong Kong.

This is my entry in the #citystory competition this week by @sasaadrian

Shoot with my Asus zenfone mobile phone

I'm also trying to nominate a project of "1001 Places To Remember" by @archisteem

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