But can it survive in HongKong's fast-changing landscape?

Wanchai is a wonderful and colourful mix of young and old, homes and offices,shopping malls and tiny boutiques, Chinese herbalists and Western chemists, supermarkets and street markets, workshops and services, high-brow(and low-brow) culture, restaurants,bars and clubs, horse racing and cricket, all backdropped with significant Chinese and Colonial historical influences, and coming together to make it HongKong's most unique district for both locals and visitors alike.
But can it survive the relentless ambitions of HongKong's property developers and the "hands-off" planning style of the HK Government?
Wanchai has occupied a special place in HongKong's history over the past 200 years, but sadly this counts for little when property dollars are involved and the Government is looking the other way.
So before everything old is torn down and local lifestyle is changed forever, with Wanchai becoming
a mere extension of the Central office district and being submerged in a sea of 7-11s and Subways, I have walked throughout Wanchai to record what it looks like today in 2011, together with my impressions of current day-to-day life.
Perhaps I am being too pessimistic but I fear that Wanchai will change dramatically over the next 10 years and it will become a significantly less colourful area. If this happens, then all of us in HongKong will be the poorer.