There is a large commercial space at street level in the heart of Hong Kong Island’s southern Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood whose interesting and rather random history lends it a somewhat mysterious air.
The high-ceilinged, 3,500 sq ft (325 square metre) unit on the ground floor of the Remex Centre, a large industrial building just in front of an MTR station, was previously occupied by a gold and jewellery shop that was almost exclusively patronised by tour groups from mainland China. Before that, it was a bank.
