Hong Kong’s iconic fabric market, the Yen Chow Street Temporary Hawker Bazaar, commonly known as Pang Jia, closed on Tuesday to make way for public housing. Photo: VCG

A shopper picks up some fabric on sale at the Pang Jia market on Saturday. The market was established in 1978 at the intersection of Yen Chow street and Lai Chi Kok road in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po neighborhood. It was once home to more than 190 textile stalls. Photo: Jerome Favre/IC Photo

Customers pack one of the market’s narrow lanes on Saturday. Photo: Jerome Favre/IC Photo

Fifty stalls remained open before the market closed for good on Tuesday. Some will relocate to the Tung Chau Street Temporary Market in Sham Shui Po. Photo: Hong Shaokui/China News Service, VCG

Sham Shui Po, one of the oldest districts in Hong Kong, is located in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula. The district is home to several historic streets and buildings. Photo: Xie Guanglei/China News Service, VCG

People wander past decorations for the Lunar New Year on Furong Street in Sham Shui Po on Jan. 18. It is also known as Hong Kong’s “Toy Street” and features merchants selling toys and games. Photo: Li Zhihua/China News Service, VCG

People walk past the Golden Computer Arcade in Sham Shui Po in August 2020. This leading consumer electronics market in Hong Kong was once a fashion wholesale shopping mall in the 1970s. Photo: Zhang Wei/China News Service, VCG

Customers dine at a restaurant serving snake in Sham Shui Po in April 2019. Photo: Zhang Wei/China News Service, VCG

In December, the Hong Kong government announced it would turn the former North Kowloon Magistracy in Sham Shui Po into a judicial education center under the city’s Revitalising Historic Buildings Through Partnership Scheme. The project is expected to be completed by 2026. Photo: Li Zhihua/China News Service, VCG

The police station in Sham Shui Po was built in 1925. It is one of the city’s Grade 2 historic buildings. Photo: Hong Shaokui/China News Service, VCG

The Romanesque-style Ex-Sham Shui Po Service Reservoir was built in 1904 on Bishop Hill of Sham Shui Po. Hong Kong’s Antiquities Advisory Board recognized the reservoir as a Grade 1 historic building in 2021. Photo: Courtesy of Hong Kong Reminiscence

Lights from stalls illuminate the streets of Sham Shui Po. Photo: VCG