hand-written
restaurant
The Cheung Heung Tea Restaurant sign is a hand-written shopfront fascia. It has been existing for more than half a century in Kennedy Town. The name of the restaurant is hand-written in black colour on a pale yellow background.
Cheung Heung Tea Restaurant
1967
Copyright owned by the Cheung Heung Tea Restaurant.
Garden Restaurant sign
Hang Yuen Cafe sign
Shangrila Restaurant sign
Shun Fat Chinese BBQ sign
Tai Woo Seafood Restaurant sign
Tsui Wah Restaurant sign
Victory Beef Ball sign
乒乓招牌雲吞招牌
好到底麵家招牌
Hand-written
Shopfront fascia
Traditional Chinese
entertainment store
illuminated
This is the sign of a local night club named Broadway Night Club in Yau Tsim Mong. It symbolises the past habits of Hong Kong people at night. The sign consists of colourful neon lights which are attractive to pedestrians.
Broadway Night Club
Kai Kee Mahjong School sign
勝利麻雀耍樂招牌
Building fascia
English
The Shun Fat Chinese BBQ sign is a traditional hand-written shopfront fascia located in Kennedy Town. It consists of four traditional Chinese characters in red colour on a pale yellow background.
Shun Fat Chinese BBQ
Copyright owned by Shun Fat Chinese BBQ.
Sweetheart Garden Restaurant sign
Cheung Heung Tea Restaurant sign
pawnshop
The Tai Fat Pawn Shop sign is one of the typical pawn shop neon signs in the shape of a bat holding a coin. This shape is commonly found in the signs of pawn shops in Hong Kong. The sign has a green outline and red traditional Chinese characters. It is located in Yau Tsim Mong.
Tai Fat Pawn Shop
Tak Tai Pawn Shop sign
Tak Wah Pawn Shop sign
Wing Wah Pawn Shop sign
Yau Sang Pawn Shop sign
Projecting irregular
Illuminated
Tam Pak Hung Social Centre for the Elderly sign
community centre
The Tam Pak Hung Social Centre for the Elderly sign is a traditional hand-written sign with a long history and significant meaning. It is located at the Kennedy Town Kai-fong Welfare Association which is one of the earliest welfare associations in Hong Kong. The sign has a white background with red traditional Chinese characters written on it.
Tam Pak Hung Social Centre for the Elderly
Copyright owned by Tam Pak Hung Social Centre for the Elderly.
Nan Fung Textile Limited sign
Wah Lik Industrial Building sign
嘉寶大廈招牌
The Tak Tai Pawn Shop sign is a traditional Hong Kong pawn shop sign. Its outline is in red while the traditional Chinese characters of its name are in white. The sign is located in Shek Tong Tsui.
Tak Tai Pawn Shop
Tai Fat Pawn Shop sign
The sign of 好到底麵家 is a traditional hand-written shopfront fascia. It is located in Yuen Long with a long history of more than half a century. The name of the restaurant is written in red colour.
好到底麵家
1961
This is the sign of a Hong Kong style 'cha chaan teng' named Hang Yuen Cafe in Sha Tin. It adopts a style often seen in older public housing estates. The name of the store is hand-written on a shading tent in white colour.
Hang Yuen Cafe
Shopfront projecting
This is a sign of an entertainment store that was once prevalent in Hong Kong. The sign is located in Yau Tsim Mong. It is made of LED lights whose colours change over time. This creates an illustration of colour strips moving from left to right, which increases the attractiveness of the sign.
勝利麻雀耍樂
Koon Nam Wah Bridal
Broadway Night Club sign
retail shop
The sign of 長城集團參茸海味 is a typical hand-written projecting banner with a few meters long extended from a building. It consists of a list of red squares. Each traditional Chinese character of its name is written on each square in white colour. The sign is located in Sham Shui Po.
長城集團參茸海味
Hang Heung sign
Wing Wah sign
Koon Nam Wah Bridal sign
廟街百寶堂招牌
Peng Fei Hardware Store sign
達明服裝用品招牌
Cyun Wai Book Store sign
Projecting banner
This is a hand-written sign of 陳卓明降脂排毒王, which is a well-known herbal medicine shop in Hong Kong. It has a form of projecting banner which spans across over 7 meters. The name of the store is in two different colours, which are yellow and green.
陳卓明降脂排毒王
長城集團參茸海味招牌
These signs of Koon Nam Wah Bridal located in Yau Tsim Mong are in the form of projecting banner. They consist of typical neon lights in red, blue, yellow and purple colours. They have an attractive outlook which increases its effectiveness of advertisement. However, due to the new policy for sign safety, this kind of projecting banners is reducing in number in Hong Kong.
commercial centre
The sign of 嘉寶大廈 is an old-styled hand-written building fascia located in Kwai Tsing. This kind of signs is commonly found in commercial centres or industrial buildings. However, due to the high demand of maintenance, these signs are gradually replaced by newer technology.
嘉寶大廈
Tuen Mun Trend Plaza sign
ACME Shopping Arcade sign
The Cyun Wai Book Store sign is a hand-written shopfront projecting sign in Tuen Mun. It has a simple design of white traditional Chinese characters on a green background.
Cyun Wai Book Store
The 乒乓招牌雲吞招牌 is one of the common hand-written shopfront fascias in many old-fashioned restaurants in Hong Kong. This sign is located in Tuen Mun. The background colour is red with white traditional Chinese characters on top.
乒乓招牌雲吞
The Tak Wah Pawn Shop sign is one of the common illuminated pawn shop signs in Hong Kong. It has a projecting irregular shape which depicts an upside down bat holding a coin. This sign is located in Central. Its outline is in green colour and the traditional Chinese characters are in red.
Tak Wah Pawn Shop
The Wing Wah Pawn Shop sign has a typical pawn shop sign shape, which shows an upside down bat holding a coin. This shape has a special meaning in the Chinese culture. The sign is located in Tuen Mun with red background and white outline and words.
Wing Wah Pawn Shop
shopping mall
The Tuen Mun Trend Plaza sign is one of the early shopfront fascias in Tuen Mun. The sign was renovated in 2000s. Currently, it is illuminated and has both Chinese and English versions.
Tuen Mun Trend Plaza
1988
The ACME Shopping Arcade sign is one of the common building fascias in Hong Kong. It is located in Tuen Mun. This kind of signs is especially popular in shopping malls and commercial centres. The four large traditional Chinese characters are illuminated in red colour.
ACME Shopping Arcade
The Garden Restaurant sign is an illuminated projecting columnar sign. It has a simple design with its name shown in red colours on a green background. It also shows outline in yellow colour to highlight the sign. This sign is located in Kwai Tsing.
Garden Restaurant
Projecting columnar