- Jau Gwei
"Jau Gwei" (Chinese: 走鬼;
Jyutping : zau2 gwai2; "lit." running [away from] ghosts) refers to the sudden abandonment of roadsidevendor stalls inHong Kong , when the squads of the Hawker Control Team (小販管理隊 or 販管隊 in short) are coming and the vendors are either operating a stall illegally or selling prohibited goods."Gwei" refers to the "
Gweilo ", as the hawker control officers were usually westerners in the old days."Jau Gwei" is the word shouted out to warn other vendors of the approaching squads. Hong Kong has tried to reduce illegal vendors by licensing hawker permitted places, but a large percentage of street vendors still operate illegally. The term can be heard in other parts of
Mainland China 'sGuangdong province where similar situations exist with illegal street vendors.External links
* [http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8z2wA7eSPLgJ:sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/50/5000260.pdf++%22Jau+Gwai%22&hl=en An impact study concerning Hawker Permitted Places]
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