Chungkin Mansions Review on “the Cheap Route”

Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

“You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” (Star Wars) than the Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong. I’d seen the film “Chungking Express” years prior and thought maybe the Chungking Mansions had an allure of charm, a sense of the city, a multicultural Mecca utopia perhaps? The first floor is all cell phone charging stands and ethnic food I couldn’t place…

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