Choi Sai Woo Park

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Choi Sai Woo Park (Traditional Chinese: 賽西湖公園) is a park located near the top of Braemar Hill at Braemar Hill Road, Hong Kong, Choi Sai Woo (sometimes referred to simply as Choi Sai), serves as something of a social hub for the neighbourhood. Choi Sai Woo Park is a landscaped garden with a total area of 2,400 m² providing some country freshness among a number of housing estates and schools. Choi Sai Woo Park's opening hours are 7am - 11pm. Choi Sai Woo is equipped with several facilities and is surrounded by a number of amenities including the restaurant or tea shop "Cha Chan Tang", Wan King, a 7-11 and a Park N' Shop. The park is known as a place where students of the nearby schools, St Joan of Arc and Chinese International School. The park was once notorious as the location of brawls between the students of St Joan of Arc and Chinese International School. This has, however, deterioated in to competitive basketball games between the two schools in recent years.

[edit] Facilities

Choi Sai Woo has two small basketball courts. It is notable that the popularity value of these courts is so great that in recent years alumni of Chinese International School have been seen to return to the court on breaks from University.

The garden area is located at the very bottom level of Choi Sai Woo park abutting the car parking lot of Park N' Shop. It is mainly planted with Bamboo.

There is also a children's playground located at the top of the park. From the road, the view of this playground is partly blocked by a public restroom and an area of dense plantation. For this reason the children's playground is a popular spot for students to smoke or just congregate. A pagoda neighbors the playground. This is also very popular amongst students because the chess table provides a solid surface for students to roll joints, and the pagoda itself is useful in windy or rainly situations.

[edit] Nearby Stores and Restaurants

A restaurant or "tea house" of the type commonly found in Hong Kong. It serves the general area and is busiest at the schools' respective lunch hours. Local supermarket chains are located directly across from Choi Sai Woo Park.

One of the resturants located at Choi Sai Woo is famous for its "Cha Siu Fan", which translates to pork rice in English. And as senior students of the Chinese International School frequently complain about the variety and the quality of food inhouse, they find it much more attractive to go for "Cha Siu Fan".