Today must have been a Sunday or a public holiday, which is why you saw all those women using “cardboard boxes”. These women provide a service to local Hong Kongers, they are “Domestic Helpers”, mostly Indonesian and Filipino they live with local families and get one day off a week. For a months salary HK$5000 the women will everything for the family, cook, clean, dog walk, wash your car, take children to school, look after babies while parents go to work - full time. It’s one reason HK is very affluent, allowing both parents to work full time and pay a small amount for a Domestic Helper. They literally work 12 hours a day, if not more, taking care of the old relatives too!
Thank you the explanation. That makes more sense now. They were getting together on their day off. It seems very foreign to us (the cardboard box thing) but perfectly normal in Hong Kong. Is it like that every weekend and Public Holiday?
What time of the year did you go? Was it the rainy season? What were the temps like - the locals seem to be wearing jackets etc. I'm guessing it wasn't hot?
Today must have been a Sunday or a public holiday, which is why you saw all those women using “cardboard boxes”. These women provide a service to local Hong Kongers, they are “Domestic Helpers”, mostly Indonesian and Filipino they live with local families and get one day off a week. For a months salary HK$5000 the women will everything for the family, cook, clean, dog walk, wash your car, take children to school, look after babies while parents go to work - full time. It’s one reason HK is very affluent, allowing both parents to work full time and pay a small amount for a Domestic Helper. They literally work 12 hours a day, if not more, taking care of the old relatives too!
Thank you the explanation. That makes more sense now. They were getting together on their day off.
It seems very foreign to us (the cardboard box thing) but perfectly normal in Hong Kong.
Is it like that every weekend and Public Holiday?
What time of the year did you go? Was it the rainy season? What were the temps like - the locals seem to be wearing jackets etc. I'm guessing it wasn't hot?
It was March. It rains a lot in Hong Kong I think. Not cold just comfortable.