Apliu Street

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File:Apliu Street Shops 201506.jpg

File:Road Sign of Apliu Street.jpg

Apliu Street ({{Lang-zh|t=鴨寮街|s=鸭寮街}}) is a street in the Sham Shui Po area of Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Location

Apliu Street runs parallel to Cheung Sha Wan Road between Yen Chow Street and Nam Cheong Street. An easy way to reach it is to get off at the MTR Sham Shui Po station. Use the A2 or C2 exit and you will be ascending directly into Apliu Street.

Name

The Cantonese name "apliu" (鴨寮) comes from a village which was formerly located nearby but has long since been buried underneath the urbanization of Sham Shui Po.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.apliu-street.hk/history |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=www.apliu-street.hk}}

Retail

Apliu Street is home to a bustling street market selling electronics, electrical components, and related items.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.apliu-street.hk/history |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=www.apliu-street.hk}} A shopper can find both new and used merchandise in the area. Apliu Street is well known for geek shopping, and at one time it had an unsavoury reputation as a "thieves' market".Jason Wordie, Streets: Exploring Kowloon (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), {{ISBN|978-9622098138}}, pp. 146-150. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AyfPeYnp3-oC&q=apliu&pg=PA147 Excerpts available] at Google Books.

While Apliu Street is famous for electronic parts, the Golden Shopping Arcade on the opposite side of Cheung Sha Wan Road is famous for computer hardware, video games, and related items.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.apliu-street.hk/history |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=www.apliu-street.hk}}

Trivia

File:Apliu Street and Kweilin Street Junction.jpg.]]

The shop Kong Wah Telecom (HK) Limited (near the junction of Kweilin Street) was a site of the Detour in the eleventh leg of the reality TV show The Amazing Race 27.