Hollywood Road and many of its surrounding streets are known primarily for their range of antique and second-hand stores. 

Many of the shops are aimed at visitors, though amidst the reproductions and trash you can still come across genuine treasures - gilded Buddhas, blackwood furniture, paintings, jade and ivory objects d'art, decorative screens, blue and white Ming porcelain and all manner of miscellaneous artefacts from across Southeast Asia. The shops are fun simply to browse, though if you are buying be sure to bargain hard and only pay top prices if you know what you are doing. 

Follow Hollywood Road west and you eventually pass Possession Street (an obscure right turn), which takes its name from the fact that it was here in 1841 that Captain Charles Elliot and a British force first claimed Hong Kong for Britain. Today the name is the event's only memorial - and may change under Chinese rule. Note how far the street is from the harbor: land reclamation has pushed the waterfront back from its mid 19th-century position.

Going down the Hollywood Road along the Lau Tei Kai, a few steps away is the Lok Ku Road. Here it used to be the brothel and seamen's apartments, but now it has become a grocery market, a place where handicrafts, antiquities and historical relics modeled after the ancients. Not far away from Lok Ku Road is Mo Lou Upper Street and at its entrance stand the Twin Stone Lions of the Tang Dynasty, which are symbolic of the street. It has a huge collection of antiquities of various descriptions. It is a treasure place where many collectors of antiquities are looking for valuables and treasure.