Hong Kong consumers are feeling the pinch of rising costs from inflation, but with the world still gripped by Covid-19, is there light at the end of the tunnel?

From groceries to beef and petrol, Hongkongers have felt the pinch of rising prices from inflation, with the global economy and supply chains still gripped by the pandemic. In the first instalment of a three-part series, Denise Tsang and Fiona Sun explore how the city’s poorest are getting by.

Every time Hong Kong housewife May Liu goes to the wet market near her home in Kwai Chung, she worries about the price of everything.