6/ ...as a way of funding your vacation. Before visa restrictions shifted, if you couldn't get into China easily--say, because you were from India, or Pakistan, or just about anywhere in Africa--Hong Kong was where you'd go to arrange manufacturing via a fixer, and you'd find that person at the Chungking Mansions. Or perhaps you'd just hang out there for a few days eating halal food and speaking Urdu or Swahili w/ others from the same place while you waited for your Chinese visa to come through.