Audio guide introduction: 1 minute 18 seconds
In the past 100 years, the meanings of the names "Tai Po Market" and "Tai Wo" have undergone significant changes. In the late Qing Dynasty, seven non-Teng villages headed by the Wen family living in Taiheng Village established a new market called "Tai Wo Market" on the south bank of the Lam Tsuen River, which is now Fu Shan Street. It was combined with the "Tai Po Market" on the north bank of the Lam Tsuen River. "Resist in separate courts. It is said that a squire of the Wen family fell in love with a stonefish in the old market, but was "robbed of love" by the Deng clan, which led to the Wen family's initiative to build a new market.
Because Tai Wo City enjoys a superior geographical location, villagers gradually regard Tai Wo City as the market representative of Tai Po, and call Tai Wo City "Tai Wo Market". The original Teng's Tai Po on the north bank of Lam Tsuen River The market was renamed "Tai Po Old Market".
Tai Wo Market on Fu Shan Street was once the largest market in the East New Territories. This century-old open-air market still sells daily necessities, fresh food, grains, oils and groceries needed by the neighborhood. It also sells items rarely seen in ordinary markets. Agricultural supplies, Hakka hats and traditional handmade snacks. And considering the old market, the environment is quite tidy and clean, and it’s quite spacious!
