It’s street food. Something as embedded and sentimental as street food doesn’t just vanish. If anyone knows where Hong Kong’s old street food pulse still beats, it’s them. She romantically contends that street food is an “impulse buy – you pass by it, and it smells good, so you buy it to eat quickly.” “The younger generation goes to malls that have a ton of ‘street food’… The plus is that there is air conditioning.”