Central 30 Houses Kaifong Yulan Association

• Photographer
  Lo Kin Man Ken

The trendy dining and shopping area of Hong Kong now generally referred to as SoHo – short for South of Hollywood Road – used to be named 30 Houses after a row of 30 stone houses that were once a conspicuous feature of the area. Today the name lives on in the sign at 62 Staunton Street for the Central 30 Houses Kaifong Yulan Association, a community group which organises the colourful annual Yu Lan or “Hungry Ghosts” Festival, during which paper craft offerings to deceased ancestors are traditionally burned.