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Law Uk Folk Museum Review
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Law Uk Folk Museum
Museums / Galleries, Wan Chai
Fodor's Review:
This restored Hakka house was once the home of the Law family, who arrived here from Guangdong in the mid-18th-century. It's the perfect example of a triple-jian, double-lang residence. Jian are enclosed rooms -- here, the bedroom, living room, and workroom at the back. The front storeroom and kitchen are the lang, where the walls don't reach up to the roof, and thus allow air in. Although the museum is small, informative texts outside and displays of rural furniture and farm implements inside give a powerful idea of what rural Hong Kong was like. It's definitely worth a trip to bustling industrial Chai Wan, at the eastern end of the MTR, to see it. Photos show what the area looked like in the 1930s -- these days a leafy square is the only reminder of the woodlands and fields that once surrounded this buttermilk-color dwelling.
INFO
- Address: 14 Kut Shing St., Chai Wan, Eastern, Hong Kong, China
- Phone: 2896-7006
- Web site
- Cost: Free
- Open: Mon.-Wed., Fri., and Sat. 10 - 6, Sun. 1-6
- Metro: Chai Wan, Exit B
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