HONG KONG - In deciding where to dine out in Hong Kong these days, many residents are turning to a Yelp-like mobile app: Not for reviews of food or service, but to separate"yellow" from"blue" eateries.
Even if some shop owners pretend to be yellow, which is occurring more amid the blue boycott, this helps keep up the protest momentum, said Kelvin Lam, a former Greater China economist at HSBC and now a member of the District Council.While economists say the strategy is unlikely to have a significant economic impact, boycotting police-linked businesses is exacerbating tensions in the former British colony.
King, who is pro-protester, said he wants people to use the app to"tell the government what we want". He is now expanding the list to include other retailers, such as beauty salons and stationery shops. BAKING CAKES Vicky Tam, a Hong Kong professional who is getting married this month, illustrates the divide. She has switched her wedding cake order - worth about HK$8,500 - from Maxim's Cakes, the city's biggest bakery chain with about 180 stores to another local chain, Saint Honore Cake Shop, where cake sales have soared 50 per cent since September.
Her comments led to outrage by protesters in Hong Kong and prompted vandalism of Maxim's restaurants and shops, including Starbucks outlets. Maxim's Caterers runs more than 1,300 eateries mainly in Hong Kong and Macau, including 160 Starbucks coffee shops. The company had annual revenue of HK$20.27 billion at the end of 2018, according to an auditing document.
Hkers are seriously oppressed by the tyranny and we gotta change the tactics of revolution. We choose to spend our money on those who support democracy and boycott those support HKPoliceTerrorists & CCP. YellowEconomicCircle ABC_challenge
CCP uses economic power to coerce companies into firing pro-democracy staff so we use money to resist and to protect the pro-democracy restaurants & shops. We HKers can do so. Why can't the whole world do so? BoycottChina StandWithHongKong HongKong HongKongProtests
It's an easy choice of doing businesses with those that don't support terrorists. StandWithHongKong 5DemandsNot1Less BoycottChina
To better use of money to support Real HK ppl, let our money enhance and strengthen econo8of Real HK ppl. The Yellow Economy Circle is a voice, a vote and a support to HK. ABC_challenge AnywherebutChina
When the totalitarian regime has been responding to the Hong Kong ppl’s demands with political suppression & PoliceBrutality, we have to try whatever we can do to extend HongKongProtests. Developing the “Yellow Economic Circle” is one of the long-term methods.
we support people who share same belief. why i have to let people who support totalitarianism and police brutality to earn my money? standwithhongkong
I would rather say it’s a daily requirement. Only consume in YellowEconomicCircle and won’t let any pro-CCP earn a penny from me.
I just want to stay away from those pro-CCP guys when I enjoy my meals. And it is not easy to make money, so it will be good if the money I paid can be used for something I stand with.
It's not as much political as just not paying for the knives that will be swung at your face. Swung by pro-HKGov thugs, just to be clear.
an alternative way of protest: we will support Yellow (pro-democracy) Shops who support the values of freedom and democracy YellowEconomicCircle
Hi, people from the world. Happy ChineseNewYear! Go YELLOW restaurant is a safe choice under the threat of WuhanCoronovirus as there won’t be any mainland barbarians who spreads virus everywhere. Come support us through YellowEconomicCircle & ABC_challenge!
Protests seem to disappear? NO It happens, every, single, day. We solely need one moment to trigger all these emotions. WuhanCoronovirus is clearly the one.
Why not? Politics change everyday life of each one. People have rights to decide how they want to live their lives.
This is our freedom, we can only 'vote' in such way
Omg.....why? Do Not Politicized everything! watch USA right now! CHAOS!
2/2 We also appeal to the world to sanction those CCP and HK officials directly or indirectly responsible for human rights violations by passing MagnitskyAct in 2020. Democracy is not free. We have to do something to earn it.
1/2 It’s not only Yellow or Blue; but also Good or Evil! The armless HK people have no choice but to try every means to rise up against tyranny and oppression. StandWithHongKong
Discover more unknown shops with yellow maps
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Some blue shops show strong linkage to the gangsters and hurt our people. Hate them.
I am not choosing a restaurant, I am choosing the future of Hong Kong. Support yellow economic circle. HKprotests
Free Hong Kong FreeHK FreeHongKong StandWithHongKong
It’s an upgrade of HongKongProtests . We support pro-democracy shops, boycott pro-government shops. Also we organise labour unions and boycott made-in-China products and invite others to participate in ABC_challenge .
Support YellowEconomicCircle 👍 黃色經濟圈
Our money our rules. We learn this from CCP invasion on Hong Kong economy toochina is terrorist
Every dollar you spend is a vote too
Hope the sytem can enlarge to the whole city
It is about conscience and Hong Kong culture, start supporting shops that are not depending on pro-China party is a way to keep Hong Kong's culture exist. Hong Kong people can live without CCP
It is like why we choose fair trade products or eco-friendly products. We share a common belief and common value. Therefore, we support each others.
Just the simple fair trade that we are consumers, we can choose and feel comfortable to consume and pay in the yellow shops. We agree they are conscience shops that we like to keep consume in there.
Politics is everywhere, we just can’t ignore it.
innocitizen When the dictator ignored how we peacefully asked for 5DemandsNot1Less including Universal Suffrage that we should have long ago & when they give us back HKPoliceBrutality to suppress us. We merged the protest into daily life via YellowEconomicCircle & BoycottChina!
YellowEconomicCircle can be seen as the new front of ‘clashes’, just our weapon is money. I think this is totally legal & HKPolice won’t teargas me for eating at yellow restaurant right? If no, state media pls shut up & let us spend our money as we wish.
Yellow Economic Circle FTW. StandWithHongKong
We believe human right is always of the top priority. Those who suppress human rights and their supporter must be boycotted and sanctioned. We have the right to decide how to spend our money! HongKongProtests BoycottChina HongKongPoliceTerrorism
before yellow or blue, Hong Kong had silently became RED (CCP controlled). Literally 70% of chain stores or companies in any industries in HK had been controlled by China for the past 20years. This is the time for us to fight back. YellowEconomicCircle StandWithHongKong
Can’t swallow the food served to us by some owner who thinks of us as “roaches”. They’ve chosen their path we’ve chosen ours. YellowEconomy HongKong StandwithHongKong HongKongProtests
It’s not really about yellow or blue. It’s a matter of conscience. The consumers use their power to express their dissatisfaction on restaurants’ owners who support murdering and killing civilians.
We are finding more creative ways to maintain the movement! Making a living in Hong Kong is tough. The grassroot are afraid of economic downturn. We now buy from pro-democracy yellow shops to run the Yellow Economic Circle! StandWithHongKong
Even the wallet is a great way to pressure businesses. Peaceful yet effective StandWithHongKong
When absurdity is happening every day in Hong Kong, we are not allowed ourselves to spend money on those supporting that absurdity. We support those restaurants which share the same core values : freedom and democracy.
YellowEconomicCircle becomes a new popular way to continue our fight for freedom and democracy, especially when we are being beaten and arrested during peaceful and lawful protests. We sincerely invite the world to take part to BoycuttChina as well🙏
I will only spend my money on yellow shops, forever
Hong Kong regime turn a deaf ear to our demands so we let our money speaks for us. And we don’t actually want to hear those pro-government waiters to curse us while dining.
To Sinkies, this makes you eye wides open.
Like any consumer movement, putting money where your values are!
Our money should be used to support our guys. Not a business owner who support chinazi criminals and HKPoliceTerrorists. 5DemandsNot1Less FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong
I get satisfaction and happiness from the shops, that’s why I love to go!
This is about whether shop owners have conscience or not! StandWithHongKong
A lot of blue restaurants, which mean pro-government restaurants, are shutting down because they are not supported by HongKongers !
I just want to support those who shares the same values. YellowEconomicCircle
Also bazaar.
Only spend on those share the same value as myself. Boycott red capital and pro Beijing stores, this is the least I can contribute to the movement
To be exact, we just want to consume at a place that we feel comfortable and happy...like who we are sitting with and who is serving us. All these matter
It is a conscience act more than a political act when you see what happens in HK!
Yes, it’s our freedom for HongKong people to spend money in the ways they like. Why don’t we spend money in YellowEconomicCircle which will support pro-democracy people to continue the fight for freedom and democracy?
octopusscity The yellow economic circle is a real community sharing the same core values
Vote on every spending! StandwithHK YellowEconomicCircle
It makes perfect sense that the 2 million protesters support businesses which back the protest YellowEconomicCircle
ABC, Anything but China.
That's the most peaceful way to express Hong Kong people’s discontent. They are protesting with their purchasing power. StandWithHongKong FightForFreedom HongKongProtests
It's about conscience
We don’t have the freedom to choose our CEO,but we have the freedom to choose what we believe.
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Yes it’s not policital just out of preference to spend my money. Nothing wrong at all
We buy, eat, choose products from AnywherebutChina . This is a long- lasting rebellion. FightForFreedom
YellowEconomicCircle is the next battlefront confronting ChinaTyranny & HKTyranny But HKers still need MagnitskyAct passed in every democratic country to sanction CCPChina and HKPoliceTerrorists 5DemandsNot1Less FightForFreedomStandWithHongKong
Consciousness is all that matters.
You wouldn't want to buy goods/services from people who don't hv conscience
Voting with one's wallet is the best way of getting a message across. If you don't agree with a person, you don't need to confront them, just support someone else's business.
The YellowEconomicCircle is an act of humanity. Most “yellow” shop are pro-democracy and disagreeing police brutality. It is alright for HK citizens to consume their services. It keeps a sustainable economic circle.
Not entirely political. We are just paying enterprises with stances we share agreement on. Consumers choose and rule out those behind the times. Isn’t this economics?
I enjoy dining yellow restaurants because of the atmosphere💛
HongKongers don't have the right to vote so we use money as our ballots. The pro-Beijing restaurants should not stay in HongKong.
Politics is everywhere, just purchase from someone who share the same values, just like fairtrade ! You can do it, too! AnywherebutChina
YellowEconomicCircle is another way to resist CCP, we pay for “yellow” only. U can start with ABC_challenge Say no to Chinese products coz they’re violating human rights and suppressing freedom! FightForFreedom StandwithHK 5DemandsNot1Less ANTICCP BoycottChina 手足互科
We call this political act “Yellow Economic Circle” and support it for 2 reasons. We want to support people and shops that have the same conviction with us. Also, we don’t want gov and shops that help oppress our freedom earn money from us.
This is a typical example of buycott. But consumers always have the power to decide what they want. It’s the business that have to cooperate with consumers’ interest
We pick the restaurants that share same beliefs and we become happier. This is sort of economic theories I believe.
We help to sustain the momentum by doing protests everyday including: - Yellow Economic Circle: buying from yellow shops, boycotting blue shops - Joining unions to prepare a full strike - ABC_challenge: buying goods produced from Anywhere But China
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I love yellow restaurant
I go for yellow for sure
I don’t see any ground on why Hong Kong Gov & CCPChina intimidate YellowEconomicCircle ! It’s a choice of spending of consumers and consumers know the best way to maximise their happiness/utility. Gov intervention is just a blatant suppression on HumanRights ! StandwithHK
Yellow economic circle adds solidarity to our protest and brings protest into daily life. Everytime you spend money, you are casting a vote for the kind of world you want. I only shop at shops which support protestors and I boycott products “made in China”. AnywherebutChina
The reason is, if you spend the money for who support hongkong police, it means you support them to beat citizen to use violence suppress Hong Kong, that’s why we want to have choice
It's not about political act, yellow or blue. It's about conscience. The World can join us 😊 If you support freedom and democracy StandWithHongKong please support YellowEconomicCircle, and BoycottChina Join the ABC_challenge
Social unrest originated to incompetent government and political suppression. No wonder people in Hong Kong chose to abandon China & China-related restaurants
We are just choosing the right restaurants. It is like you would not dine in a dirty ones.
Yellow Economic Circle💛
Indeed and it is not easy but how can you enjoy the food when the restaurant supports HKPoliceTerrorists and thought you were a cockroach ?
Politics come to you even we may never go for it. Hong Kong people merge our battle into daily lives. And at least, we don't want to fund the tyranny to buy the weapons to beat us up in every rallies.
Imagine in a blue restaurant, hearing people around you berating HKProtesters, praising HKPoliceTerrorist, worshipping CarrieLam, and saying they wouldn't think twice of taking the law into their hands to attack the protesters? Of course you will go to a yellow restaurant.
Yes it becomes a routine habit for many hongkongers .. we check the “colour” of the restaurant before we enter! We are the customers and we have the choices on how to spend our money more worthy isn’t it? It is not only political.. it is about conscience!
It feels so good to spend money wisely to support freedom and democracy🌟 StandWithHongKong
It just likes why ppl boycott Starbucks and McDonald's for environmental reasons. Ethical consumerism is not a new thing.
BoscoWo42122490 It's abt conscience. We believe if the shop owner understand how hkgov & HKPolice treat HongKong youngsters last year, he/she must have a kind heart. This is an evidence to show the shop owner care abt wht he serves his customers
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Doesn't matter if it's political. Everyone has to do their part and support those restaurants supporting the protection human rights! YellowEconomicCircle
Going blue or red (related to CCP) restaurants seemed like giving money to devils to hurt our fellows... hkprotests antichinazi
Spending on China goods? Nah, I’d rather spend my money on shop which holds the same values. antitotalitarianism StandWithHongKong
Not really political reasons, but we are picking the side if human rights Are you sure you want to give money to CCP who genocide Uyghurs, using force labors, and depriving freedom from people all around the world? AnywherebutChina
We never support the shops which help to persecute us YellowEconomicCircle
Fking Hong kong police keeping Harassment yellow shop. hongkongpoliceterrorism FreeHongKong
The world should follow suit to only consume PRODUCTS and SHOPS those support FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. Or you have no choice to live or consume in your way tomorrow!
It’s just easier to go to places where you feel like you have a bond with..
It's call social responsibility when you buy according to your conscience
Time for the rebirth of the once-golden madeinhongkong !
The authorities have used many ways to suppress our Hong Kong's movement, but the HKprotesters are so smart to think of even more means to protest. StandWithHongKong
It's not about yellow or blue. It's about conscience. Same rule applies, you won't wanna buy products made in authoritarian China that violates human rights and freedom. Please join our ABC_challenge to BoycottChina! Stop funding China to suppress people. StandWithHongKong
To me yellow restaurants can provide a pleasant environment with 0 bad words about our freedom fighters. I also can use my money to encourage these owners to use their own ways involved in Hong Kong uprising movement. We are all in solidarity to YellowEconomicCircle.
Hong Kong ppl are clever enough to conscientiously spend their earnings. YellowEconomicCircle FightForFreedom StandWithHongKong FreeHongKong
When u buy made in 🇨🇳 products, support pro-Beijing businesses, u r actually funding CCP to oppress freedoms n human rights Journalists, lawyers, Christians, Uyghurs, hkers r being persecuted Take a pic of AnywherebutChina products n invite ur fds for ABC_challenge
Letting pro-China and anti-Hong Kong businesses grow big in the first place and manipulate our politics was a mistake. We are only working to rectify it.
The Yellow Economic Cycle will succedd to scare off pro-China shops in the foreseeable future!! We will let you feel what it’s like to support the merciless government!!
It is a conscience act more than a political act. You can’t really go to a restaurant supporting the suppression of human rights. That is why we insist to go to restaurant who are brave enough to speak out the truth.
When u buy fair trade coffee beans, do u think this is a political act? Itz all abt conscience and ethical
Not simply political, its a matter of conscience! StandWithHongKong
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Ethical consumerism is nothing new. You wouldn't want to fund those who support human rights abuses, would you?
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