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Like Hong Kong, Macau is a former European colony. Portugal controlled the region from the 16th century until it was transferred back to China as a special administrative region in 1999. Macau was China’s first and last European colony. Just an hour’s ferry ride away from Hong Kong, Macau is an easy getaway to a very [...]
One of the must-dos on my Hong Kong list was to visit a dai pai dong (大牌檔). It’s a basically an open-air food restaurant with a few tables and stools. The key to success is rapid turnover and inexpensive food. Dai pai dong usually serve breakfast, or traditional Cantonese food like congee or noodles with [...]
There are two main gustatory reasons people visit Sai Kung: one is the seafood, and the other is the original location of Honeymoon Dessert (滿記甜品). Opened in 1995, the dessert house has multiplied across Hong Kong and into China with more than 20 locations and still growing. Now, anyone who knows me knows I loathe [...]
Founded in 1894, the Craigengower Cricket Club is Hong Kong’s second oldest cricket club. But we didn’t see any cricket-playing when we were there, just a lot of ladies wearing sun visors and lawn bowling. Memberships are HK$350,000 ($65,000 CAD) or HK$600,000 ($96,000 CAD) — and that’s even on the lower end of all the [...]
Precious real estate + busy restaurant + tiny kitchen = dishes in the alley P.S. Thanks for pushing this blog’s odometer past 100,000 unique visitors!
Sai Kung is a town that evolved from a fishing village in Hong Kong’s New Territories. Fishermen still unload their catch at the harbour where there’s a market centre with countless tanks of fresh seafood. You can take a stroll along the main drag and spend a lot of time staring at some not-so-familiar [...] The Luohu Commercial City shopping mall (羅湖商業成) is a genius marketing location, just inside the border between China and Hong Kong, with a train station and immigration crossing literally yards away from its doors. Luohu is not quaint or even enchanting. It’s a crass bastion of copyright infringement, but if you have no problems with replica [...] |
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