Cleaning the toilets at Canal Road, Wanchai

The life and hard times of Auntie Lau, a poorly-paid, outsourced, contract cleaning lady. The public toilets at Canal Road, Wanchai, are under the flyover, close by Hennessy Road. Some of the clientele are harmless drug addicts, and gays going 'cottaging'. But it has been the venue for several 'head-banging robberies'. Most of the time, however, it's just a toilet. Still, Auntie Lau has to deal with all manner of incidents. Recently, a middle-aged man walked into the women's toilet and tried to castrate himself... From a sympathetic article about one of Hong Kong's many hard-working poor. First published in Next Weekly, now well summarized in English.