page_title: Yuen Long Kau Hui
section_title: Other buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Yuen Long Kau Hui / Features / Other buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Tung Yick Store on Nos. 20 A &amp; 21 Lee Yick Street in Yuen Long Kau Hui(Old Market Yuen Long), a former inn providing accommodation to traveling merchants from other villages. The exact year of its construction is not known, but it is believed that it had existed before 1899. It is Grade I historic buildings in Hong Kong, and probably the oldest hotel in Hong Kong that still exists 中文: 新界元朗元朗舊墟同益棧，香港現存唯一的清代客棧，位於利益街20號A及21號，其建築年份已不可考，但相信建於英國接管新界的1899年前，已有超過110年歷史，被古物古蹟辦事處列為一級歷史建築。 Français&#160;: Tung Yick Inn à Vieux Marché, Yuen Long, le plus ancien hôtel de Hong Kong, monument historique de grade I à Hong Kong Deutsch: Tung Yick Dorfschenke in Yuen Long Alter Markt, das älteste Gasthaus in Hong Kong, und Grad I historische Gebäude in Hong Kong
context_page_description: Yuen Long Kau Hui is an area in Yuen Long, Yuen Long District, in the western New Territories of Hong Kong.
context_section_description: Chun Yuen Ngat (晉源押), a former pawnshop, at No. 72 Cheung Shing Street. Founded by Tang Lim-ming (鄧廉明) of the Tang Clan, and father of Tang Pui-king (鄧佩瓊), the pawnshop was originally located at Lee Yick Street and was moved to the present site in the 1910s. It operated until WWII, when the business of the market declined. 
  Tung Yick Store (同益棧), Nos. 20 A & 21 Lee Yick Street, a former inn providing accommodation to traveling merchants from other villages. The exact year of its construction is not known, but it is believed that it had existed before 1899.
  Entrance Gate of Tai Wai Tsuen, originally built around the early 16th century, reconstructed in 1911. There is an Earth God niche inside the Entrance Gate building.
  Lam Ancestral Hall (林氏家祠), at No. 157 Shan Pui Tsuen, was probably built in the 19th century. The building was used as the classrooms of a school for teaching village children in the 1930s-1960s, and as classrooms of a kindergarten in 1967-1968.
  Shophouses (tong-lau) of the early 20th century can be found at Nam Mun Hau (Nos. 33-35) and in Lee Yick Street (No. 3a).
caption: Tung Yick Store
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