HONG KONG - For smartphone-wielding hordes of tourists, Hong Kong boasts a host of must-have Instagram locations -- but crowds of snap-happy travellers are testing local patience and transforming once quaint pockets of the bustling metropolis. But in recent years, daily throngs of tourists have relegated the card players to a dark corner of the courtyard. "You might say the elderly have made way for the photo takers' convenience, to not get in their way," Hui concedes. "Their saving grace is the sharp corner -- vehicles entering Graham Street are going slowly. Hong Kong's unique urban aesthetics -- especially its public housing estates -- have proved enormously popular to social media obsessives.

Source: Bangkok Post February 12, 2019 03:45 UTC