Central Market (c 1938), built in the Bauhaus style, used to be one of Asia's premier food markets. Housewives and cooks would come as far as Happy Valley to shop. After the war, there were lines here whenever horsemeat was on sale. In 1967 the then governor crowned it the ‘biggest meat market in Southeast Asia’ after a visit. Pending further development, it's now a Sunday picnicking spot for overworked Filipina maids, a role in keeping with the utopian-socialism of Bauhaus.
The market is linked by footbridges to the Hang Seng Bank New Headquarters Building and the walkway leading to IFC Mall , and another footbridge to the Central-Mid-Levels escalator .
