{"id":94856,"date":"2026-10-22T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94856"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:17:59","slug":"mouthing-off-hong-kongs-stanley-once-packed-with-tourists-is-now-dead-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=94856","title":{"rendered":"Mouthing Off | Hong Kong\u2019s Stanley, once packed with tourists, is now dead. What happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/22\/c7cbf043-feb8-4dbf-8123-5d2f7556904a_ae204b9c.jpg?itok=fxDXrczD&amp;v=1792639718\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">With summer\u2019s heat dissipating in Hong Kong, I decided to do a country walk last weekend and ended up in <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Stanley<\/span>, a coastal neighbourhood in the south of Hong Kong Island. What we found there shocked us.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It had been a few years since I visited the area, mostly because it was always packed with tourists. In all previous Stanley outings, hordes of visitors, whether from mainland China or Western countries, packed the side-street market and the main beach promenade.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">On this recent hike, a trail led us down behind <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Murray House<\/span>. The historic building, relocated from Central, once housed a plethora of restaurants across its three floors.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When we arrived in the early afternoon, there was nobody around other than a couple taking wedding pictures and a few stragglers. Hoarding blocked off much of the structure, which has been sitting empty for more than a year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3371448\/hong-kongs-stanley-once-packed-tourists-now-dead-what-happened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With summer\u2019s heat dissipating in Hong Kong, I decided to do a country walk last weekend and ended up in Stanley, a coastal neighbourhood in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4625,777,3569,5010,6157,8750,4896,5593],"class_list":["post-94856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-dead","tag-happened","tag-hong","tag-kongs","tag-mouthing","tag-packed","tag-stanley","tag-tourists","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}