Pok Fu Lam

Pok Fu Lam (Chinese: 薄扶林) or Pokfulam is a residential area on Hong Kong Island, at the western end of the Southern District. Pok Fu Lam is a valley between Victoria Peak and Mount Kellet, around Telegraph Bay. Pok Fu Lam can claim several firsts in the history of Hong Kong: It was the place where Hong Kong's floral emblem, Bauhinia blakeana, was first discovered; the site for Hong Kong's first reservoir, Pokfulam Reservoir, (1883, now part of a country park); and the site for Hong Kong's first dairy farm by five investors, including Sir Patrick Manson in 1885. The farm supplied not only milk, but cattle to Hong Kong, and later became Dairy Farm. However, it no longer exists in Pok Fu Lam. While the farm no longer exists, its remains...