Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Hitman - Jet Li (1998) - P.K. Cafe, 93 Ma Tau Kok Road

Lo is keen to take on Fu as his gun-for-hire and takes him to a local cafe to test him out. He starts trouble by calling a obnoxious female patron a 八婆 (bak por - basically the Cantonese for "bitch") and then leaves Fu to sort out the mess he has just created. Funnily enough, PK (the name of the cafe) is also Cantonese shorthand for 仆街 (puk gaai), which literally means to "fall in the street" but also means "bastard" in Cantonese.

Anyway, it was a real place and its identification is a good example of how weird my memory can be sometimes. The iron window bars rang a bell in my head from years ago when I was looking up a Knock Off location and I remember visiting this location and seeing the same design. Lo-and-behold, this cafe was indeed the same place I remembered. Although it closed down many years ago and has since been renovated into a trendier, modern bar, the shop next door still appears to have the same window grills.

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