A rare video, not only faithfully recorded the true face of the Kowloon Walled City, it's narrated by Lo Hoi-pang in Cantonese, and retains many authentic Cantonese vocabularies, some have disappeared in the Guangdong of today's Hong Kong life, and it's very unfortunate. To help you understand this video easier read this info:

Lo Hoi-pang is a man from Guangzou. In 1969, shortly after the cultural revolution, he secretly passed into Hong Kong, he later joined TVB and became an actor for a variety of famous shows. This video is narrated by him and this documentary is spoken from the perspective of one of Kowloon Walled City's original residents, Uncle Lei (the barber). The older generation of the Guangzhou people have a solid and tough character, which Pang retains.

Appearing in the film, there was a wordplay in the name of the dog meat shop, called "three hundred sixty-nine", of course, it's now gone. Why is it called "three hundred sixty-nine"? Because 3 plus 6 equals 9, 9 years in Cantonese with "dog" is a pronunciation, so "three hundred sixty-nine" refers to the word dog.

I had some help translating some of this with help from members on a forum but a lot was by me and there may be minor errors, feel free to point out any if you must and I will change it.

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