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Mei Foo Sun Chuen
Regular blocks of Mei Foo Sun Chuen
Chinese
美孚新邨
Literal meaning
Mobil New Estate
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Měifú Xīncūn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Méih fū sān chyūn
Jyutping
Mei5 fu1 san1 cyun1
Map of Mei Foo Sun Chuen
Mei Foo Sun Chuen or simply Mei Foo is a large private housing estate in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Mei Foo Sun Chuen was the first large scale private housing estate in Hong Kong and at the time of completion, the 99-tower complex was considered the largest private housing development in the world,[1] accommodating some 70,000 – 80,000 people in 13,500 apartments.[1] It is considered to be one of the world's largest privately financed residential condominium projects.[1]
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cluster of high-rise buildings, with its own market or shopping mall. MeiFooSunChuen, built by Mobil, is the earliest (1965) and largest by number of blocks...
conditions of grass-roots families in this district remain a social issue. MeiFooSunChuen in Lai Chi Kok, built in 1968–1978, was Hong Kong's first large-scale...
high by the mid-1960s. The private housing estate began in 1965 with MeiFooSunChuen. The first major private construction came from Swire properties in...
Victoria Harbour. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait to the east, MeiFooSunChuen, Butterfly Valley and Stonecutter's Island to the west, a mountain...
Freddie Wong Kin Yip and started as a small real estate agency in MeiFooSunChuen, Kowloon. It was listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1995. Its main...
Shek Kip Mei, originally known as Shek Kap Mei,[citation needed] is an area in New Kowloon, to the northeast of the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong. It...
Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (石硤尾). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui Po District...
Kowloon and New Kowloon), from the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east to MeiFooSunChuen and Lai Chi Kok Bay in the west, are collectively known as "Kowloon"...
the film officially began during Chinese New Year. It was filmed in MeiFooSunChuen. Production was wrapped on 6 April 2011 after two months of filming...
Kok Lai Chi Kok MTR Station MeiFooSunChuen Sham Shui Po Nam Cheong Estate Shek Kip Mei Stonecutters Island Yau Yat Chuen Wong Tai Sin District Diamond...
The Shek Kip Mei fire (Chinese: 石硤尾大火) took place in Hong Kong on 25 December 1953. It destroyed the Shek Kip Mei shanty town of immigrants from mainland...
rainstorms occasionally. Buildings are arranged from south to north MeiFooSunChuen, the largest private estates in Hong Kong, with 99 residential buildings...
Shek Kip Mei (Chinese: 石硤尾; Cantonese Yale: Sehk gip méih) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong line. It is located in Shek Kip Mei. The station...
(CLOSED) Lai Chi Kok Hospital (CLOSED) Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum MeiFooSunChuenMei Ho House Nam Shan Estate Ngong Shuen Chau Naval Base North Kowloon...
Tsang lived with his mother, grandmother, and younger brother Mark in MeiFooSunChuen before the family, excluding his father, moved to Canada when Tsang...
players. It was common to see their blue pagris (turbans) drying in the sun outside their barracks.[citation needed] The Royal Navy continued to provide...
Mei Ho House (Chinese: 美荷樓), formerly part of Shek Kip Mei Estate, Hong Kong, is the last remaining example of a "Mark I" building in a single-block configuration...
own shopping centre or market in the case of larger developments. MeiFooSunChuen, built by Mobil, is the earliest (1965) and largest (99 blocks) example...
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