Although a native of Dongguan, Grandma Leung was born in Hong Kong in 1933. During childhood, she lived in Canton Road in Tsim Sha Tsui and her father worked in a qianzhuang or old-style native bank. She returned to her hometown after Hong Kong fell to the Japanese army in December 1941. Her father died soon after the war ended in 1945, and she then followed her mother back to Hong Kong where they rented bed space in a tenement building in Kai Tak Road in Kowloon City. Grandma Leung began working in weaving mills when she was aged just 12. She subsequently spent many years sweating in such factories until she changed to a different job when aged around 50. Following a little matchmaking by a fellow worker, Grandma Leung dated and married a Nga Tsin Wai villager called Mr. Wan towards the end of the 1950s. After their wedding, the couple moved into Nga Tsin Wai and had three children. Grandma Leung quit her factory job in the mid-1980s and set up a grocery store selling fruits and drinks with her husband. Nga Tsin Wai resident’s loved to gather to spend chatting in the stall. Only then she began to form friendships with her neighbours. The village was scheduled for imminent demolition and many owners sold their houses. When Grandma Leung and her husband were forced to close the grocery store as a result, a much-loved neighbourhood hangout disappeared forever.