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A Hong Kong noodle shop owner works covered in flour

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A noodle shop owner covered in flour works in the Kowloon Walled City, once a densely populated enclave in British-controlled Hong Kong. The image was taken for a story in the February 1991 issue on the uncertainty before China resumed its rule over Hong Kong in 1997.
Photograph by Jodi Cobb, Nat Geo Image Collection