Photo taken by Richard Abrahall for page 197 of the book Streets - Exploring Hong Kong Island, written by Jason Wordie and published by Hong Kong University Press (https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1428). Photo reproduced here with permission of the publisher and photographer. Please contact them for permission to reuse this image.
Date picture taken
2001
Comments
cake shop?
It looks like a funeral parlour. The cake shop may be next door with a man carrying a bag of cakes? The Choi Heong Yuen cake shop 咀香園餅家 was at 718 kings road. A 2009 picture of the shop:
The Hong Kong Funeral Home is quite close at 679 kings road.
HK Funeral Home
Yes, this is the HK Funeral Home. Thankfully, in the book it is correctly identified.