San Po Kong

alternative Sanpokong

1. An area of Wong Tai Sin district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

   Sanpokong was airport land until about 1960: the industrial area at Kwuntong and part of that at Cheungshawan were reclaimed only in the 1950s.

   [1977, Frank Leeming, “Time, Place and Community in Hong Kong”, in Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City (East Asian Social Science Monographs), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 6

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   Before Hong Kong's new airport is completed, you may also have to put up with the roar of airplane engines in Kowloon City, where Lion Rock Road is a center for cheap sportswear and Angus International specializes in silk. Good silk from China can also be found in the airport area at Citi Garments and other outlets in the slummy San Po Kong.

   1991 October 11, Suzy Menkes, “Hong Kong's Fashion Bargains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2023

   In the image presented was the look of a district: that of the industrial quarter in Hong Kong called San Po Kong.[…] Massive sliding doors characterised these fearsome shops opening to the street. It was the pattern too with the other manufacturing premises continuing on along the narrow industrial thoroughfares of San Po Kong.

   2014, Michael Bishton, chapter 1, in The Island, Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36

   The electric car burst into flames 30 minutes after being parked in the city’s San Po Kong district on Sunday, the newspaper said, with three explosions seen on CCTV footage.

   2019 May 14, Donny Kwok, Shellin Li, Yilei Sun, “Tesla car catches fire in Hong Kong parking lot: media”, in James Pomfret, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2019, Technology News

   Bleak House ended up in San Po Kong, an industrial neighbourhood in Kowloon northeast of Kowloon City, quite simply because the right space became available at the right price at the right time.

   2019 December 9, Christopher DeWolf, “Hong Kong neighbourhood where spark for 1967 riots was lit, San Po Kong once again playing role in protest – as host of talks on freedom, and humour in hard times”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2019, Travel & Leisure