Tai O Fishing Village, Hong Kong - Sea Foods, Stilt Houses, Fishing Culture

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Located on a river mouth, the township is just the voucher if you want a bout of conventional Chinese living.The houses are constructed on stilts over the river and its slender lanes are filled with shops selling fish and other day-to-day items.The city dwellers here are chiefly the Tanka people who are descendants of Hong Kong’s first colonizers.Take a walk across the old-fashioned bridge that overlaps the river where you’ll find alley lanes caricature through the muddle of houses.A century ago this typically Tanka village on the west shore of Lantau was an imperative trading and fishing harbor, selling salt and fish to China.