China Moments from people who noticed the detail.

Temple Street works because it refuses to become a clean movie set. Market roofs run like a bright artery between apartment walls, laundry, air conditioners, signs and windows where ordinary life continues above the spectacle. The glamour and the pressure occupy the same frame. That is the Hong Kong I trust: compressed, commercial, domestic and cinematic without pretending those forces are separate. Go for the night market, but keep looking upward. The people living over the attraction are part of the city's truth. What did you notice above street level?