When I started going back to Hong Kong in 2012 since leaving in 1998, I wanted to see my doctor from the 90s, the same doctor I wrote about in my memoir, Good Chinese Wife. But for some reason, I just couldn't bring myself to go up to her office. I got as far as the lobby of her … [Read more...]
The Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club
I first went to the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong sometime in the mid-1990s. I can't remember if it was lunch with friends or my first meeting with the Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society, but it was love at first sight. I love old buildings and colonial … [Read more...]
Art Deco in Hong Kong, 2017
It seems like every time I go to Hong Kong, I find more Art Deco buildings I hadn't noticed before. When I lived there, the only thing I knew about Art Deco was its fonts. So I wasn't really aware of the architecture in the territory, although I couldn't get enough of the round … [Read more...]
Soho then and now
When I lived in Hong Kong, the Soho neighborhood was just getting off the ground. I remember going to a Lebanese restaurant there in the fall of 1996 with a group of friends. Around that time about half a dozen new restaurants had popped up and my friends were starting to hang … [Read more...]
Bottonhole Bookbinding
Today my niece and I had the best time attending a bookbinding class at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago. Some months ago I blogged about a bookbinding notebook someone had given to Bari as a gift. She posted this notebook on Instagram and I immediately recognized it as my late … [Read more...]
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