Long-time residents may remember what was probably Hong Kong's first English-style fish and chips takeaway, the Hasty Tasty. Open in the 1950s and opposite the Waltzing Matilda Inn in Kowloon, it was one of the places in which Mary Woo Sims grew up.
Decades later, Woo Sims recalls how wonderful it was to be able to eat fish and chips whenever she wanted.
'I still crave them. Wrapped in newspaper with malt vinegar,' says Woo Sims, whose Chinese name is Sum Ming-li.
Her father was born near Melbourne, Australia, her mother in Shanghai, and after the couple met, married and settled in Hong Kong, he opened the Australian-themed Waltzing Matilda. He would also open Sport World, American Pool and other leisure and sports-oriented businesses in Hong Kong and Macau.
Woo Sims, 54, the oldest of six siblings, was the first to move away, arriving in Vancouver, Canada, on August 21, 1970, a day she will never forget.
'I stepped off the plane thinking it's supposed to be summer here, why is it so cold?' Woo Sims says. 'On my first trip downtown, I wondered where all the people were.'
Woo Sims was sent to Vancouver to finish her high-school education.