It was just after 10pm on a weekday at Hong Kong’s well-known Temple Street Night Market, and clothes vendor Leung Siu-chun sighed as she counted her takings from selling qipao and tang suits at about HK$100 (US$13) apiece.
“I [made] slightly more than HK$200 ... today. Tourists come to browse and bargain but they don’t loosen their purse strings,” the 76-year-old said.
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