Yan meets Fan in a laneway behind Portland Street and become friends after Yan's pimp is assaulted in front of Fan by an assailant wielding a durian fruit.
Manchester city centre is "traditionally defined as being within the boundaries of Market Street, the River Irwell, Peter Street and Portland Street, including Piccadilly".
There is a street in London named Great Portland Street although it is unclear whether there is any relation or relevance to Portland Street in Hong Kong.
In a triad underworld dominated by men, the film tells the story of how she faces trials and tribulations of rising to become the branch leader of Portland Street.
The major buildings of Portland Street include the largest former warehouse in the city centre, Watts Warehouse (grade II* listed), the former Bank of England Building and other former warehouses on the corners of Princess Street.
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Watts Warehouse (1851), now Britannia House, at nos. 35-47 between Minshull Street and Chorlton Street.
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The Queen rode past the stately warehouses, like that of Messrs. Watt on Portland Street, the newly built Manchester Town Hall (1877), with the Albert Memorial, in Albert Square, Manchester's tribute to her late husband and finally the emerging commercial buildings epitomised in Lewis's Department store, all of which shaped the Manchester still visible to today’s citizens and visitors.
Portland Street in Pill was the birthplace, in 1871, of the famous "Tramp Poet" W. H. Davies and the nearby Church House Inn, where he was brought up by his grandparents, has a commemorative blue plaque.