Since I was at the Peak lookout pagoda two weeks ago today, Hong Kong has seen record-breaking heat, followed by not one, but two typhoons. Some people say a year can make a difference, but we're talking about half a month!This lookout pagoda on the Peak is something I loved … [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...]
Book of the week–Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City
Although this is a short book, it's one to savor.I wasn't born and raised in Hong Kong, but felt I could relate to a great part of Xu Xi's story in Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A Hero (Penguin, 2017). I've lived there a couple times and that always seems so complicated when I … [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...]
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