Domestic workers turn a passage toward a subway station in Sai Wan Ho into a camping site on their weekly day off. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

Hong Kong’s foreign domestic workers who have little option but to hang out in parks, sidewalks and footbridges to socialize on their regular Sunday, have worked out an ingenious way of circumventing social-distancing regulations. By investing in portable tents en masse, they have added a much-needed splash of color to these trying times.

A domestic worker prepares for her day out by setting up a tent on a footbridge near the government headquarters in Admiralty. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

A worker peers out from her tent in Victoria Park. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

A row of portable tents placed along the boundary wall of Po Lam Estate in Tseung Kwan O. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

Tents provide a colorful background to this sunbather in Victoria Park. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

Workers chat and share food outside their tent under a footbridge in Admiralty. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)

Weekend scene at an underpass in Sai Wan Ho. (CALVIN NG / CHINA DAILY)