Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Photo Friday

December 18, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Here's another photo from my walk through Kowloon City and the area where Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport used to stand.It's funny how I used to walk through this park quite often in my 20s, but never stopped to appreciate it back then. I guess I was always in a hurry, either … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Photo Friday Tagged With: Hong Kong, My Family's Travels, old hong kong, vintage hong kong

Dim Sum Sundays

November 23, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 3 Comments

When I lived in Hong Kong a thousand years ago, my go-to for out of town friends and family was either City Hall or Luk Yu, both in Central on Hong Kong Island. I lived all five years in the New Territories and usually had dim sum on campus or sometimes in Shatin.So when a … [Read more...]

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Layover in Kowloon City

November 15, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 8 Comments

When I was en route to Shanghai a couple weeks ago, I had a 36-hour layover in Hong Kong. Since it was the first time I'd been alone in the city since 1998, I wasted no time revisiting some places from my past I hadn't seen in 18 years.I stayed at the Regal Oriental in … [Read more...]

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Lantau Island, 1990

September 30, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

It was quite a coup finding these photos from Lantau Island my mom took back in 1990. Although I hadn't seen them in 25 years, that trip is something that stayed with me and something my mom and I still talk about.I'd been in Hong Kong for four months when my mom flew over to … [Read more...]

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More Hong Kong 1990

September 29, 2015 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

I was going through old photos at my mom's today and came across these from Hong Kong 25 years ago. I'm not sure how I missed these before, but today was the first time I'd seen them in a quarter of a century.I've posted photos from my orientation at the Chinese University of … [Read more...]

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