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Looks at the contributions of hawker to Hong Kong's economy. Ip Iam-chong (Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University) explains why there are so many hawkers in the 70's. Shows a warehouse where hawkers lease lockers for storing their carts and merchandise. Tung Choi Street was the first hawker district in Hong Kong. Hawkers talk about how difficult it was hawking in the old days. The government started to ban hawkers and took back their licences in the 1980's. Some who moved into stores in markets says business has dropped. Shows a successful hawker who made his name selling dried lemon.
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