Locusts
A full page ad was published in a Hong Kong newspaper today, depicting a giant locust perched on a mountain overlooking the Hong Kong skyline. The text asks: “Are you willing for Hong Kong to spend one million Hong Kong dollars every 18 minutes to raise the children born to mainland parents?” The locust is...
In transition
I’m on the move again, and promise to blog more from my new location soon. On the eve of my departure from Hong Kong, here are a few things (in no particular order) I’ll miss about this great city, my home for the last year. 10) A most efficient city, connected by affordable and punctual...
Arrrrr! Escape the city and flee to this former pirate’s cove in HK Harbor
The first of two travel stories running on the AP Travel Wire this week A visit to Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong harbor By SUZANNE MA, For The Associated Press Tue Jan 11, 1:02 pm ET HONG KONG – Looking up at Hong Kong’s skyline of soaring office towers and mammoth apartment complexes, it’s hard to imagine that...
Where a child’s book bag is bigger than the child herself
It was windy yesterday in Hong Kong. Even though the forecast said high 15, by afternoon it was overcast and the wind gusts brought on a biting cold. At the Chi On Primary School in Kwai Fong (north-western Kowloon) we certainly felt it. Hong Kong public schools all kind of look the same. There’s a...
2011, here I come
It was a busy and emotional year-end, with the death in the family cutting our Taiwan trip short. We traveled to Zhejiang post-funeral and spent a few days with family. Then, it was back to Hong Kong. Funny. One morning we were in a rural part of Zheijiang, where roosters crow and dart across roads...
The Lies China Travel Service Will Tell You
We were in Taiwan when we received the email: my boyfriend’s grandfather had passed away in mainland China. He had been ill for a long time, having suffered a stroke more than a year ago. He’s been in the hospital ever since. I visited him the last two times I was in China. He was...
From Muse to Food: Pumpkin Pork Rib Chinese Soup
It’s autumn here in Hong Kong. It’s certainly not as cold as New York or Toronto (below zero, I hear!) but the weather fluctuates between warm, sunny days with highs in the low to mid 20s, to foggy, overcast days with temps in the high teens. Most of the locals here are already wearing jackets,...
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