2011 Fa Yuen Street fire

Mong Kok (also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK) is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok. Mong Kok is one of the major shopping areas in Hong Kong. The area is characterised by a mixture of old and new multi-story buildings, with shops and restaurants at street level, and commercial or residential units above. Major industries in Mong Kok are retail, restaurants (including fast food) and entertainment. It has been described and portrayed in films as an area in which triads run bars, nightclubs, and massage parlors. With its extremely high population density of 130,000/km2 or 340,000 per square mile, Mong Kok was described as the busiest district in the world by the Guinness World Records.

Sai Yeung Choi Street (Chinese: 西洋菜街) are two streets in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, namely, Sai Yeung Choi Street South (西洋菜南街) and Sai Yeung Choi Street North (西洋菜北街). Although officially two streets, local people seldom make distinction between them. They are separated by the Mong Kok Police Station. Sai Yeung Choi Street South is a popular hotspot for shopping and a tourist attraction.

Sin Tat Plaza (Chinese: 先達廣場; Jyutping: sin1 daat6 gwong2 coeng4), is a shopping mall located in Sincere Building, 83 Argyle Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Shops focus on the sales of mobile phones, mobile phone accessories, mobile phone repair services, and digital products.The mall is three floors of typical small booth style shops, common to Hong Kong. The aisle ways are narrow, and there are plenty of goods on display. The shops are mostly oriented towards mobile phones, new and used, and repair of such phones. There are also a few gaming and collectable figure shops on the second and third floor, and at least one adult oriented shop. While this mall often has some of the best prices for phones, there can be issues related to grey market, parallel import, and other sources of products, which can lead to problems with manufacture warranty service. If you are a tourist intending to buy to take to another country, this may not concern you as much.

The Argyle Street Waterworks Depot (Chinese: 水務署亞皆老街廠) was a building of the Water Supplies Department located in Mong Kok, Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong.

Goldfish Street (Chinese: 金魚街) or Goldfish Market - is a section of Tung Choi Street, north of Bute Street. There are numerous of shops selling tropical freshwater and marine fish, reptiles, vivariums etc. The shops open around 11 o'clock in the morning. There are also quite a few restaurants or street food vendors on this street.There have been proposals to redevelop the area which may put the Goldfish market in jeopardy. There have also been reports about the sale of threatened or endangered species.The market is located close to other local attractions, such as the Flower Market and the Bird Market.

Royal Plaza Hotel (Chinese: 帝京酒店) is a five-star hotel on Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong that opened in 1997. In 2018, the hotel celebrated its 20th anniversary. Owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties, it is located next to Grand Century Place and above the Mong Kok East station of the MTR.

Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at 49,115 km2 (18,963 sq mi). The 2016 By-Census recorded the total population of Yau Tsim Mong District at 342,970.Yau Tsim Mong District contains the urban areas of Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Mong Kok. Formerly two districts, the Yau Tsim District and Mong Kok District, it was combined in 1994. Its name is an acronym of the three aforementioned major areas.

Mong Kok East station – formerly Mong Kok railway station and Yaumati (油麻地) – is a station on Hong Kong's East Rail line. Only out-of-system interchange is available with Kwun Tong line and Tsuen Wan line at Mong Kok station via a footbridge. The station is connected to Grand Century Place, a large shopping mall. The station is within walking distance of Mong Kok station, but there are no direct paths linking the stations- passengers wishing to transfer between the stations must use above-ground roads or transfer at Kowloon Tong station.

Grand Century Place is a multicomplex including a shopping mall named MOKO, two office towers and a modern hotel named Royal Plaza Hotel. It is connected to the Mong Kok East MTR station. It has been renovated more than twice, the last one being a major overhaul, including new shops, a new front entrance and a new name.

Tung Choi Street (Chinese: 通菜街; pinyin: Tōngcài Jiē; Cantonese Yale: tung1 choi3 gaai1) is a street situated between south of Sai Yeung Choi Street and Fa Yuen Street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the most well-known street markets in Hong Kong. Its southern section, popularly known as Ladies' Market or Ladies' Street (女人街), sells various, low-priced products for women and also other general merchandise. Its northern section not far above Bute Street, has a wide variety of affordable plants, pet supplies and animals especially goldfish since it is also known as "Goldfish Street".

The Cornwall Court Fire (Chinese: 嘉禾大廈五級火) was a building fire incident in Hong Kong. It began in a nightclub and karaoke bar on the morning of Sunday 10 August 2008, taking the lives of four people, including two firefighters, and injuring a further 55 people.

Queen Elizabeth School (Chinese: 伊利沙伯中學), or QES and QE (伊中 or 伊利沙伯) for short, is a school in Hong Kong. The school was the first English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) (Anglo-Chinese) co-education secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is located on a mound at the boundary of Sai Yee Street and Prince Edward Road West in Mong Kok, Kowloon, adjacent to Grand Century Place, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (中華基督教會協和小學) and HK Weaving Mills Association Primary School (香港布廠商會公學). The school was conceived in 1953 when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. Later it was run in September 1954 but operated as an after school on the premises in King's College, until October 1955 when it moved to the present location in Mong Kok. The QES school camp in Tsam Chuk Wan, Sai Kung District, the New Territories was opened in 1962. With the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997, the original school badge with a crown was changed to a new one with the logo of the Education Department. Later, the Education Department was replaced by the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) (now Education Bureau, EDB), and the school badge was changed again. The school's new annex was opened in September 2004.