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Why is the banana the king of the Hong Kong fruit stall?
While local vegetable cultivation remained widespread until the 1980s, even today, small farms across the New Territories produce a surprising quantity of fresh food. Most local agricultural output is – and always has been – vegetables; Hong Kong has …