What is The Cartful?
'''The Cartful ''車仔檔'' ''', also known as portable stall and mobile stall, is a style of hawker stall originated from the street vendors selling inexpensive street food, like eggette, Tang Cong Bing 糖葱餅, and [[cart noodle]], in the 1950s.This style of selling is part of Hong Kong traditional culture. It reflects people’s way of living and their spirits. In recent years, the operation of the cartful faces challenges due to the government policies and modernization. == History == Hong Kong has been experiencing economic downturn in the 1950s, meanwhile, refugees from the Mainland fled to Hong Kong constantly after the establishment of [[The People's Republic of China]], leading to an increase in population. People struggled to make a living, they started to operate mobile stall using wooden carts with a low production cost.<ref>[http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/lifestyle/20110916/00296_004.html 它嗱喳，但好吃。——車仔麵] 東方日報</ref> With the portable carts, street vendors could get away in time from being arrested by the police. In the 1970s and 1980s, a wide variety of products are sold then. Besides food and snacks, household goods, clothing and kitchenware could be found in the carful in place like [[Sham Shui Po]].<ref>[http://goldenwip.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/%E8%B5%B7%E6%BA%90/ 深水埗歷史]</ref> == Features == The cartful sells mainly two kinds of products, street food and clothes. Some traditional street food such as [[eggette]], curry [[fish balls]] and fried [[chestnuts]] are favored by teenagers. These $10-odd snacks are cheap but delicious. They smell very nice so that they drive people queuing for them. The cartful owners make the snacks once they are ordered so as to keep them hot and fresh. Apart from the street snacks, the carful also sells clothes, sometimes handbags. Women love buying free-sized legging and socks. Though customers cannot try fitting the products, they are willing to buy them. == Owners and locations == There are mainly two types of owners which are the unemployed middle-aged and the unlicensed hawk