App takes people traveling through time in Hong Kong

HONG KONG — Holding up his mobile phone screen in front of a ferry pier near the Lei Yue Mun channel in Hong Kong, Stephen Law Kwok Hing, managing director of Gateway Cuisine, a well-known seafood restaurant, was feeling nostalgic.

Looking at scenes of the old stone quarry and time-honored brands brought back memories of the then fishing village that existed here, and he says he thought of his late father. "I feel reunited with him in another way."

Law was viewing this scene of the past through a special app, called "City in Time", a cultural and creative tourism project launched in 2021 by the Tourism Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.