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Origins of HK street names<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n

HONG KONG is a city of streets. Many names were created during the British Colonial era<\/strong>, such as Kennedy Road, and some have interesting stories behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of Tsat Tsz Mui Road, when the place was just a shoreline<\/strong>, there was a group of rocks known as Tsat Tsz Mui, or the \u201cseven sisters\u201d. These sisters are part of a local legend about a group of girls who died on the same day, but then the same number of rocks appeared in the water the day after. Sadly, the shore was reclaimed<\/strong>, so the rocks are buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone Nullah Lane refers to a stone channel<\/strong> that was built around 1841 to divert<\/strong> water from Victoria Peak down into the harbour. A street was built next to it later, named after the stone nullah. But, in 1959 the channel was moved underground, so it is not really a \u201cnullah\u201d \u2013 the Indian English term for a channel of water \u2013 anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yee Wo Street gets its name from Ewo Hong, a very successful merchant<\/strong> group in Guangzhou, and \u201cYee Wo\u201d began to appear in Hong Kong when local Jardines company used it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, no one can agree how Rednaxela Terrace got its name. A common story is that the street belonged to a man named Alexander, and when Chinese locals recorded it, they copied the letters in the wrong order: English is read from right to left, but Chinese is read from left to right<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits: Issue 06, 3 November 2022 (Thursday) by Quest from hkej<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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