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By Rory Boland, About.com

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Chunking Mansions Essential Security Guard

The essential security guard at Chungking Mansions.

Courtesy of Martyna Szmytkowska

The first thing you’ll see as you walk into Chungking is a lone Chinese security guard, he may not look it, but this man is essential to any visit to Chungking. If you’re Caucasian, and you walk into Chunking, it is assumed that you are looking for Indian food. Before you reach the security guard, you’ll be mobbed by touts from a variety of Indian restaurants, who will try and pull you away to their restaurant.

This can be a little unnerving the first time it happens, but keep your cool. In a heart-beat the Chinese security guard will arrive to briskly tell the touts to move back, which amazingly they do. You are then left with fifty leaflets for Indian restaurants to choose from, pick your restaurant and the guard will call forward the appropriate tout to guide you through the maze of Chunking, to your chosen restaurant.

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