Ng Yiu Fai was born in Nga Tsin Wai in 1956 and lived in the village until he moved out in 1972. Ng Yiu Fai’s father was the second of five brothers, one older and one younger of whom had died early on. By the time Ng Yiu Fai had grown up enough to understand such matters, he only knew about his fifth and seventh younger uncles and a younger aunt. Both of these uncles had both spent their childhoods in Nga Tsin Wai and went to work in the UK in 1960s as a result of clansmen’s referrals known as the “sale of pigs” (coolie trade). The two had since settled there. In those years, proceedings for the “sale of pigs” were very simple. Many people from the Ng Clan had long been making a living in the UK after having emigrated there on steamships. Unwilling to leave his family behind, Ng Yiu Fai’s father did not follow suit. Ng Yiu Fai’s father attended public schools such as King’s College or Wah Yan College up to secondary graduation and then took a clerical job. Before he retired in the early 1980s, he had worked as a clerk at Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company (HAECO) for about 20 years. As a child Ng Yiu Fai grew up with two brothers in an ordinary family which was considered as being comfortably well off. Ng Yiu Fai’s mother was a Hakka and a typical housewife.During his childhood, Ng Yiu Fai accompanied his mother to her childhood home at To Kwa Wan to visit his maternal grandmother at least twice a month every time he had school holidays.