Yau Ma Tei, also known as Waterloo , is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Yau Ma Tei is a phonetic transliteration of the name in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, Yau Ma Ti, Yaumati or Yau-ma-Tee. Yau literally means “oil”, Ma can either refer to “sesame” or “jute”, and Tei means “field” or “open ground”. Hence, Yau Ma Tei can be interpreted to mean either “oil-sesame field” or “oil and jute ground”. This dual-interpretation is perhaps the reason why there are two explanations for the origin of the place name. The area is also named Waterloo in English, after Waterloo Road. This name was used for the MTR station in the area when it was opened in 1979.

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