Lan Kwai Fong 蘭桂坊 is a small square of streets in Central, Central and Western district, Hong Kong. The area was dedicated to hawkers before the Second World War, but underwent a renaissance in the mid 1980s. It is now a most popular expatriate haunt in Hong Kong for drinking and dining. The street Lan Kwai Fong is a L-shape with two ends join with D'Aguilar Street.
In early days, the square housed many mui yan (媒人, lit. medium person), or marriage arrangers, a role exclusively held by females. Mui yan was a marriage medium between two families in the old days. It thus known as Mui Yan Hon (媒人巷, lit. medium person lane) or Hong Leung Hon (紅娘巷).
In 1980s, German-Canadian businessman Allan Zeman, also known as father of Lan Kwai Fong, invested 32 million Hong Kong dollars to buy a whole building and renovate it as Western restaurants. The place soon became a meeting place for foreigners in Hong Kong. The square, together with a homosexual disco Disco Disco founded earlier in 1978 in D'Aguilar Street, made Lan Kwai Fong and its surroundings a famous spot for night life.
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