While yesterday was supposed to be the longest day of the year, we in the Chicago suburbs were cheated out of a couple of hours as the wake of a tornado swept through my town. I've never seen such huge trees bent over and peeled like bananas. And from 8:30 pm last night until … [Read more...]
Hong Kong’s Central district through the years
My first impression of Hong Kong was Central. Only I didn't know that's what its glitzy financial district was called until I landed in Hong Kong in 1990.This is what Central looked like back then:But on my mom's first trip to Central almost 30 years earlier, here's … [Read more...]
An evening with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
To kick off Chicago's annual Printers Row Lit Fest, I attended a fabulous reading and dinner last night with Cheryl Tan, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen (Voice, 2011) at Town House Books & Cafe.With my 12 year-old son Jake in tow, I introduced myself to Cheryl as a … [Read more...]
Along the Kowloon-Canton Railway
I love train travel. One of the train systems I've frequented the most is the Kowloon-Canton Railway.The KCR, as it's known in Hong Kong, opened 101 years ago in British Hong Kong. A year later, it linked up with a line in China to the city of Canton (present day Guangzhou … [Read more...]
Remembering the Kowloon Walled City
Weeks ago I gave my son Martin Booth's memoir, Gweilo (Bantam, 2005) about growing up in Hong Kong in the 1950s. He just reached the part when Booth ventures into the Kowloon Walled City. When he asked about the Walled City, I rushed over to my bookshelf and plucked out a … [Read more...]
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