The zongzi stall at Shek Kip Mei Market had thirty-eight wrapped and ready at eight on Friday morning. The stallholder sold eleven by noon. Last year on Tuen Ng she sold out before ten.

The Immigration Department counted 1.17 million border crossings on the Dragon Boat public holiday. The department's figure runs both directions, but the coaches staged at Hung Hom and Jordan on Friday evening were going north, and a family room in Shenzhen's Futian on Saturday came in at HK$380, against HK$1,100 in Kowloon for the same square footage. Financial Secretary Paul Chan was in Nanjing on Friday courting Jiangsu investors, one version of what the mainland relationship looks like. The version in Shek Kip Mei is different: the stallholder moved her remaining twenty-seven at five-thirty, at HK$18 each, to people coming back from the border who wanted something for dinner. She had charged HK$16 last year. The thirty-eight zongzi went for HK$684.