In a month’s time, 22-year-old Hongkonger Tony Lam Chun-ho will be graduating from Polytechnic University with a degree in business administration. But instead of following his peers into a professional career, he is choosing to fight for the legacy of his family’s six-decade-old grocery store.
Lam Kee Grocery Shop is one of only a handful of small businesses left in an area of the old Kowloon City neighbourhood facing imminent redevelopment, and the Gen Z Hongkonger is pulling out all the stops…