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Chungking Mansions is a maze of interconnected buildings in Tsim Sha Tsui that offers a huge range of ethnic food, shops and guesthouses. Tuck into affordable South Asian cuisine, pick up a piece of Indian clothing, or just wander its corridors for bargains.

Chungking Mansions is a building located at 36–44 Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Though the building was supposed to be residential, it is made up of many independent low-budget guesthouses, shops, and other services.

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Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong attracts a multicultural crowd to its maze of shops and restaurants, which offer some of the best Indian and halal food in Kowloon.

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Explore how Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions transformed from a gritty urban anomaly into a celebrated cultural landmark and global culinary destination.

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HONG KONG -- When Jeffrey Andrews started working at a refugee support center in Hong Kong's notorious Chungking Mansions 17 years ago, he kept his workplace to himself.

Chungking Mansions as a Complex Cultural Trace Why has Chungking Mansions developed into an ethnic enclave? For many outsiders of Chungking Mansions, the most observable phenomenon in the building is the gathering of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, mostly South Asians and Africans. This is made possible by three ways Hong Kong was, or is, politically and institutionally positioned in ...

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Chungking Mansions is a building providing some of the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong and functioning as a gathering place for ethnic minorities. In addition to the guesthouses, there are also hundreds of stores, restaurants and exchange offices.

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Chungking Mansions — The World Inside the Building - Works That Work