Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market

Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market is a wholesale marketplace in Yau Tsim Mong District featuring rows of stalls displaying fresh produce under covered structures. The center sprawls across multi-story brick buildings with open pathways and loading areas where boxes and crates move constantly throughout the day.

The market was founded in 1913 as a government vegetable market serving multiple food categories in its early decades. It gradually focused on fruits during the 1960s and has maintained this specialization ever since.

This place has long served as a gathering point where traders and buyers interact in a direct, face-to-face manner that defines the local commerce. You can still witness these daily exchanges between merchants and customers, which shape the neighborhood's identity.

The market is easily reached via Yau Ma Tei MTR station at Exit B2, with the most active trading happening early in the morning hours. Between 4:00 and 6:00 AM you will see the highest volume of wholesale activity when buyers are most active.

The buildings hold Grade II Historic status, protecting their original stone structures and pre-World War II architectural features from that era. These older elements remain visible in the current construction and give the market a sense of its historical roots.