In a densely populated city with notoriously high rents, Hong Kong’s musicians are used to playing cramped stages.
But few venues are quite as pokey, or unorthodox, as Yuen Hing Lung noodles.
On a recent weekday night a jazz band was in full swing inside the 300-square-foot restaurant, perched on cola crates and using dining tables as music stands. The double bass player was squeezed into the space where the noodles are usually bubbling away.
There were no live spectators.
Hong Kong has placed strict social distancing limits to control the coronavirus pandemic and like most forms of entertainment, live music has been decimated.
So instead, the musicians inside the 47-y…
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