This is the current Streetview of the same corner.
On the right hand side of Aberdeen Street is the former Police Married Quarters - which have been 'revitalised' into a creative design centre called PMQ.
Friday, September 4, 2015
Revenge of the Pink Panther - Peter Sellers (1978) - Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan
The next part of our car/dairy farm ice cream vending motorbike/taxi chase scene sees the vehicles driving rather fast down Aberdeen Street and onto Hollywood Road where they turn east and head back towards Central. Thankfully, this place seems to have not aged a single bit and most of the buildings look to still be the same ones.
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I visited Hong Kong last October, and I remember reading through this blog to find places to go, although as you point Hong Kong has changed enormously since the 1970s and 1980s.
This street rang bells in my head. The street view image was strangely familiar, and then I remembered - just to the left and uphill a bit there's a restaurant called Ho Lee Fook(!), which I visited. I ended up walking back and forth along this bit of road trying to find the place.
I remember those red taxis. There were essentially four types of car in Hong Kong - Toyota Comfort taxis, Teslas, Toyota Alphards (a boxy miniature peoplecarrier), and everything else.
Ho Lee Fook is on Elgin Street: https://www.openrice.com/en/hongkong/r-ho-lee-fook-central-guangdong-r176284. Of course, given the current events it's quite possible it has closed.
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