This is my first time in Hong Kong. I now live in Seattle. My family emigrated from Hong Kong to the US to give me the opportunities they thought they could never have here. I was raised by my grandparents, so the Cantonese dialect is highly sentimental for me. To hear it spoken everywhere is so special.

In the United States, I have been conducting research on Chinese immigrant labour rights in the past and how the restaurant business was often the only source of work. It was about fulfilling the American Dream, so coming back now to Hong Kong is like coming a full circle.

I walk around this neighbourhood with nostalgia for the life I could have had, the small alleys, and the small shops and of course the tram. It is so iconic.

Growing up, I saw the tram in Hong Kong movies, it was always so picturesque. My relatives probably saw the tram as innovative at the time and now I see it as historic, but we both look at it with the same sense of awe.”