At a packed and tiny storefront in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po, Yau Yiu-wai busily explains the best way to open and shut umbrellas to an endless stream of interested buyers.
But the 73-year-old shop owner only received a bump in customers after announcing earlier this week that he would be closing down the 183-year-old family business – one of the city’s last remaining umbrella shops with repair services – by the end of this month.
As the fifth-generation owner of the Sun Nga Shing Umbrella Store,…
