“Hong Kong is becoming more like China. There was a big difference between this street before and now. It’s just for selling jewelry to China now” said Lawrence Chan, a 25-year-old swimming teacher who had to go to work at 9 a.m. It was 2:30 a.m. when he spoke to a reporter.
“This road is very important,” said Kay Chan, 18, in her last year of high school. With oversize glasses, a sizable gold coloured necklace, and the scent of alcohol on her breath, she said that Mong Kok was “the heart of Hong Kong, the pulse of Hong Kong,” feeling the pulse of a reporter to make her point clear.
“We have thousands or tens of thousands,” she said of the superior numbers of the occupiers. When reminded of the fact that the site was cleared that morning because only a few dozen were present to guard it, she conceded that “yes, because we have to go to work in the morning.”
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