Located in the area enclosed by Waterloo Road, Reclamation Street and Shek Lung Street, Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market was built in 1913 and was originally known as the Government Vegetables Market selling vegetables and fruits. Fish traders then joined in the 1930s. In 1952, considering the increasing volume of fruit wholesaling and the insufficient space for the fruit stalls, the government redeveloped the vegetable section at Shek Lung Street and converted it into 16 fruit stalls. With the opening of the Cheung Sha Wan Wholesale Vegetable Market and the Cheung Sha Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market in 1965, the vegetable and fish wholesale stalls moved out and only fruit wholesalers remained in operation. The market was then renamed as Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market.
Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market consists of a rectangular site packed with market stalls and shophouses of one to two storeys high. They were largely built of bricks or stones with covered pedestrian walkways or arcades formed by projecting balconies of upper floors. The use of Dutch Colonial gables and pediments and the carvings of traders’ brand names on pediments or tablets of the gables are highlights of the Fruit Market.
Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market was rated Grade 2 historic building in 2009.
Transport
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