Tsim Sha Tsui

alternative Tsimshatsui · alternative Chim Sha Tsui

1. An area of Yau Tsim Mong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

   The march ended in violent exchanges, with Hong Kong police firing tear gas canisters at protesters from inside a police station in Tsim Sha Tsui.

   2019 October 20, “Clashes as fresh anti-government protests hit Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 20 Oct 2019, NEWS

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   This arrangement will, however, be found to be of very little use until the Observatory is placed in direct communication with the telegraph offices in Hong Kong, as the connections between the police stations generally break down in bad weather,[…] In the course of the summer of 1884 the writer invented and started a system of meteorological signals, which continue to be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball tower at Tsim-sha-tsui.

   [1886 December 9, Dr. W. Doberck, “The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas”, in Nature, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 139, column 1

   Think of Tsimshatsui and you think shopping! This is Kowloon's internationally renowned shopping district, where anything can be bought at the right price.

   [2003, Fiona Campbell, “Finding a Home”, in Setting Up in Hongkong: A Relocation Guidebook for Expatriates, 6th edition, FDC Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 84

   But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.

   2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023, In Transit

   Saturday’s march — the ninth weekend of sustained protests — deviated from a route authorized by police and went into the tourist-heavy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, which looks onto Victoria Harbor.[…] Tsim Sha Tsui is where dozens of Hong Kong’s luxury hotels and malls are located and is popular with foreign tourists.

   2019 August 3, Shibani Mahtani, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong protests spill into tourist district with tear gas and arrests”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2019, Asia & Pacific

   Shop rents on the upper section of Fifth Avenue in New York remain the dearest in the world, with the average up 7 per cent this year to $2,000 per sq ft. Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong, is the second most expensive area, with rents of $1,436 per sq ft.

   2022 November 23, Tom Howard, “New Bond Street rents slip in 2022”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2022, Business

   Synonyms: TST