Wet markets and street markets in Central, Hong Kong

I didn't expect Hong Kong to move me like it did. It wasn't my first visit -- I'd been three times before -- but arriving only a week after I'd left Dubai seemed to amplify the stark differences between the two. Dubai was new and burgeoning and developing at a rate faster than cartographers could handle; Hong Kong felt busy but steeped in history and hundreds of untold stories.

My mother grew