Residents who helped organize the protests link its new identity to the days when they sat with supporters, who came from other areas in a handful of food joints in the area.
What's more, they are able to enjoy public transport, buying zongzi at reopened time-honored snack shops, breaking a sweat and shaping the body again at the gym, or tearfully watching a movie in the cinemas.
In the back of the theater was a snack bar that sold fruit and drinks, and above it a gallery where women sat and sometimes threw fruit, also cucumbers.
And the reason you're going to the mall is to shop, to go to the department store, to maybe get a snack in a snack bar… The food court doesn't actually become part of the mall until the mid 1970s.
And at the end of it, you get eight-year-old boys saying, I'm going to set up a chickpea and Welsh lamb street food business when I grow up, which is fantastic.