3 am dim sum restaurant
this place has the wackiest hours: from 3 am to noon. and it’s busy at 3! with old men and students… (lucky for us it’s close to the university, in kennedy town). and cheap at HK$104 for the three of us.
芦笛 cave in guilin
Used in WWII as an air-raid shelter, this cave can hold over 1000 people (according to the lonely planet). I don’t think they used the fluorescent lighting then.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. died on Feb 28, aged 89
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Arthur Schlesinger junior knew that he was frozen in the past. His thought had stopped, he admitted in old age, half a century before–around 1946, the year when, at 29, he had won a Pulitzer for his book on Andrew Jackson and had been made a professor of history at Harvard. He had no particular need to revise his thinking … Read More
chinese new year
my spring festival break was quite eventful. though apparently not much happens in hong kong, except for the huge flower markets that are put on for a full week prior to new year’s in the parks around hong kong. but I should elaborate: in addition to the fabulous orchids, mini-orange trees, and other lucky plants, a major portion of these … Read More
first impressions
HK is schizophrenic. My first few days here I wore myself out walking… I’m staying at hong kong university, located midway up the northwestern slope of Victoria peak on Hong Kong Island, with not much but middle-class housing staggered into jungle greenery. But walking from the main gate of campus it’s not long before you hit the ‘hallmark’ of civilization … Read More
viva macau
ad for the new low-cost carrier from macau [it’s a casino showgirl taxiing in an airplane.]
a night at the races
went to happy valley (跑马地) last night and bet on the horses.
quaker chicken mushroom oatmeal
not as good as I expected (or hoped?)–though maybe I should have opted for the “anchovies flavor”. better to get congee at a restaurant…
modern airports unite
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hong kong — airport, or shopping mall? airport of the year from 2001-2005 (with a mere second place in 2006). fastest way to get there is taking the subway. you can check your luggage at Hong Kong station in Central, maybe shop a bit at the swanky IFC mall, then take the 23-minute ride to the actual airport… and shop … Read More
proximity rules
so everyone knows Hong Kong is dense. Population-wise that is. (take whatever meaning you want from that) Since there are a lot of people living in a very small place, everything is close to… everything else. Which is sometimes disconcerting. “Nah, that can’t be an amusement park,” I think to myself, because it’s in the middle of all those skyscrapers. … Read More