高陞街英文介紹

Ko Shing Street is immersed with the fragrance of traditional medicine. Rare medicine can be found here. Residents and tourists are recommended to buy Chinese dry seafood, herbs and medicine on Ko Shing Street at Sheung Wan district.
Sheung Wan , which specializes in Chinese medicinal products, teas and herbs. This is a fascinating area for poking around, with shop windows displaying items such as snakes (alive and dead), snake-bile wine, birds' nests, shark fins, antlers and crushed pearls, as well as large quantities of expensive ginseng root. You'll find medicinal shops scattered along an east-west line extending from Bonham Strand to the small Ko Shing Street - the heart of the trade - which is adjacent to, and just south of, Des Voeux Road West. This section of Des Voeux Road boasts another long line of extremely exotic shops specializing in every kind of dried food, including sea slugs, starfish, shark fins, snakes and flattened ducks.
In Ko Shing Street, as well as finding ginseng on sale, an ailing person can purchase every conceivable form of natural medicine used in traditional Chinese medicine. Many shops, with little in common with western chemists, employ doctors who will make an on-the-spot diagnosis and prepare a suitable medicine from a variety of ingredients.