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The Hungry City: A Kowloon Horror Story Part 1: 30,000 Souls in One Block

Let me tell you about a place that shouldn't have existed. Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong,

1993. A single city block, no larger than a football pitch, crammed with over

30,000 people. Fourteen stories of chaos, built without architects or permits.

For decades, neither Britain nor China claimed it, so it became a place

outside the world. Residents built wherever they wanted—rooms, corridors, entire floors balanced

on rusting rebar. Dentists next to fish factories. Noodle shops beneath opium dens.

Sunlight never reached past the third floor. Just flickering tubes and dripping pipes twisting through