No city for eating out: Hong Kong’s low-income workers struggle to find clean spaces to have their meals

Hung wakes at 6am each day to prepare her lunch of rice and vegetables, before heading from her home in Shau Kei Wan to work in Causeway Bay.The widowed grandmother who lives on her own cleans a public toilet from 7am to 3pm seven days a week, stopping for lunch at 11am. Taking out her packed meal, she sits on a bench outside the toilet to eat, ignoring the stares of passers-by.“I know it’s dirty and unhealthy eating this way, but what else can I do? I earn little, so I want to save money,”…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3097371/no-city-eating-out-hong-kongs-low-income-workers-struggle