Friday, January 4, 2019

Strangers - John Simm (2018) - FEHD Quarters, Sai Yee Street

David Chen lives with his daughter, Lau, in a rather spacious apartment by HK standards. I've since read that pretty much all of the interiors were filmed back in the UK at the beginning of 2018, however, I should say that the building used in the show is an old Colonial Govt quarters, so the size of the studio set might actually be fairly close to reality given the generous size of Govt accommodation of old.

Anyway, this is the old accommodation block for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. The FEHD came into being after the abolition of the (democratically elected) Urban Council, but I suspect the building has been around a bit longer than that given its architecture.

We get quite a few nice views up Sai Yee Street and also along Mongkok Road - you can see the roof of the walkway from the East Rail station as it turns a 90 degree angle just outside the apartment building.

View from apartment area along Mongkok Road walkway

1 comment:

Phil said...

I can confirm that these old blocks have now been torn down for redevelopment of the whole site. It's likely they were used for filming because they were empty in preparation for their demolition.

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