Hollywood Road, and the streets nearby, form a run of antique shops, curio sellers and furniture stores. There’s some wonderful Asian applied art here - furniture, old and new ceramics, burial pottery, painted screens, prints, jewellery and embroidery - and a group of more upmarket antique shops at the eastern end of Hollywood Road. As you move further west the selection becomes more mixed (and prices get lower), with any number of smaller places and pavement vendors selling bricabrac and junk on parallel Upper Lascar Row. In Victorian times this market was infamous for its large number of thieves, and dubbed “Cat Street” by the white population (after “cat burglar”, according to one story). The western stretch of Hollywood Road is renowned for its coffin makers, with some businesses specializing in silk grave clothes.