Chuk Yuen

Chuk Yuen (traditional Chinese: 竹園) or Chuk Un was a village and an area in New Kowloon of Hong Kong. The area is approximately present-day Wong Tai Sin. The name now also refers to two public housing estates, Chuk Yuen North and Chuk Yuen South Estates. There is presently a village in proper Chuk Yuen at the junction of Shatin Pass Road and Lung Cheung Road. The original village of Chuk Yuen was centred approximately around the current Wong Tai Sin Fire Station, beside Shatin Pass Road. During early British rule of New Kowloon, Shatin Pass Road was a road from a point from Kai Tak to Shatin Pass in the north ridge via villages of Po Kong and Chuk Yuen. A forest of bamboo surrounded the village, and the village's name is derived...