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Kweilin Street Night Market is an commercial and social activity that unlicensed hawkers set up their mobile food stores and stalls to sell local street foods and groceries in Kweilin street, Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=新年深水埗桂林街擺檔 夜市腸粉王 1小時收$15,000 - 蘋果日報 - 要聞港聞 - 20140205 )〕 Typically, the street provides various goods and meets residents’ needs with stores, shops and restaurants. Yet, during the first to third day of Chinese New Year, which are public holidays in Hong Kong, shops in Kweilin Street would be closed and Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) officers who are supposed to crack down those unlicensed hawkers go off duty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=新春可否有「夜市」 為小販求情？ )〕 Hawkers seize the opportunity to develop their businesses there, attracting large amounts of locals. However, the night market is controlled by Hong Kong government due to the safety, traffic and noise problems. ==Characteristics== Kweilin Street Night Market only takes place in the first three days of the Lunar New Year. As most restaurants are closed during that period, the hawkers will set up stalls at night to sell foods since there is a large potential market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=桂林街新年夜市 地道小吃重現 )〕 The hawkers in the night market are not licensed by the government and they operate illegally. Officers of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will regularly dispel the hawkers. At night, some hawkers set up some stalls on the street and sell traditional and local cooked foods such as steam rice noodle rolls, stinky tofu, curry fish balls, sausages and other snacks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=區議員倡建「美食夜市」 - 香港文匯報 )〕 Also, some street stalls sell goods such as clothes, groceries, dolls and second-handed items. Due to its approachability to Golden Computer Plaza,〔http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=49&art_id=142151&sid=41488605&con_type=1&d_str=20140205〕 which has a variety of electronic gadgets,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Golden Computer Shopping Center, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong - 12hk.com )〕 and plenty of eateries, it has already become a popular place for young people to hangout there. As the stream of people is high in Kweilin Street, it appeals a lot of residents to set up stalls and thus the prosperous night market is born while this place also brings older generation priceless memories of a bygone era.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Don’t kill the Kweilin Street night market! )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kweilin Street Night Market」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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