Causeway Bay
English edit
Etymology edit
Named after Causeway Road, which was originally built as a causeway.
Proper noun edit
- An area in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.
- 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit[2]:
- But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.
- 2013 September 25, Aric Chen, “A Hong Kong Neighborhood That’s a Lot Like Brooklyn”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, Food, Travel[4]:
- For a long time, Hong Kong’s frenetic night life scene has centered on fancy hotel bars and glitzy clubs swarmed with corporate bankers. Tai Hang — a quickly gentrifying area southeast of the city’s shiny Causeway Bay district — is now offering more laid-back options.
- 2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-11[6]:
- The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.
- 2022 June 4, “In Pictures: High security and mini acts of defiance as Hong Kong seeks to thwart Tiananmen crackdown commemorations”, in Hong Kong Free Press[7], archived from the original on 4 June 2022:
- On Friday, police cordoned off parts of the park in Causeway Bay, which for some 30 years was the site of annual candlelight vigils to remember those who died during the 1989 crackdown.
- A bay of Hong Kong Island in Causeway Bay and Tai Hang, Wan Chai district, Hong Kong, now reclaimed.
Synonyms edit
- (area in Hong Kong): (initialism) CWB