Vignettes of the World
I Have a Date with Spring
There are a few kinds of local Hong Kong food that are the ultimate comfort foods for me. Beef brisket noodles are one. I have previously written about Sister Wah’s noodles in Tin Hau. Victory Beef Balls （Shing Lee Beef Balls) in Yuen Long is …
This four-hour itinerary will take you through some of the key heritage sites and cultural experiences in Central. If you have just one day in Hong Kong, I suggest doing this walk to get a sense of Hong Kong’s most iconic character. The walk will …
Ask me if there is any kind of print that still widely circulates in Hong Kong, and I say it would be the horseracing newspapers, in Cantonese, literally “horseracing bibles,” which is the North Star for the loyal betters of the games. Party Time at …
Here comes the dog days of the summer and the thought of having to walk from sea level up to the mid-levels’ altitude for the Museum of Medical Sciences was daunting enough. So, instead, I opted to walk from Central MTR station, via the escalators, …
I set out for the Flying Eagle Restaurant in Sham Shui Po after a round of bargain hunting in this area. As an aged neighborhood in Kowloon, Sham Shui Po has a history little known to most Hong Kong people. It does not come under …
The Maritime Museum is perhaps the only private museum in Hong Kong, established and maintained with the support by various prominent persons and companies, such as the Wah Kwong shipping company and Swire. Its location at Central Pier No. 8 is a perfect alignment with …
A joint venture of the former Happy Bakery and Shun King Restaurant, Happy Café brought together the best of Hong Kong’s culinary traditions in cha chaan teng meals. Being two in one, Happy Café has doubled down on the idea that 1+1 equals more than …
It’s springtime and the major events of the year are underway. I visited the Art Basel 2025 last night at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai. Here’s a quick snapshot of my experience. The Art Basel brings together an enormous number …
I was just strolling in Sai Ying Pun and stumbled upon a hidden gem amidst its crisscrossing uphill grids. No. 9 and No. 10 Yu Lok Lane are classified as the shophouse type of tenement houses. A lot of the traditional Hong Kong tenements are …
The wetlands of Long Valley in Sheung Shui have finally opened to the public as a site of ecological tourism since November 2024. Wedged between the Sheung Yue River and Shek Sheung River in Sheung Shui, Long Valley had long been the freshwater marsh that …