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Share Photo by KC Tang Photo by KC Tang The great thing about living in a sub-tropical climate is that ice cream is popular year round. Mister Softee is a Hong Kong institution and while it only serves four items (see menu), I preferred the traditional “Soft Ice Cream Crispy Sugar Cone”, which comes [...] Share Song of the Azalea When my friend Raymond told me about Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese Son by Kenneth Ore and Joann Yu (Penguin Canada, 2005), I went online and bought it without thinking twice. He wasn’t joking when he said it was a powerful story. I found it to be [...] Share Chinese cut outs Several posts ago I heralded Pierce Brosnan and Connaught Centre for sparking my interest in Hong Kong during my teenage years. In subsequent discussions on Facebook, I was reminded that a branch of the Welfare Handicrafts shop was housed in the basement of Connaught Center. And that brought me back to [...] Share Postcard from Macau, 1990 Postcard from Macau, 1990 I sent this postcard to my paternal grandma one month after I moved to Hong Kong for my junior year abroad. This was my first of two trips to Macau, both just for the day and both on my own (the second trip was in [...] Share Postcard from my first trip to China, 1988 Postcard from my first trip to China, 1988 Years ago my paternal grandmother told me I should be a writer. Maybe it was her way of encouraging me to continue writing postcards from my travels and letters from college and grad school. My only grandparent [...] |
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