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Searching for local food in Hong Kong as a non-Chinese speaker is overwhelming. The vast majority of online reviews being written on Anglophonic platforms like Yelp (which has been described kindly as "on death's doorstep") and Google Reviews (mostly written for tourists, by tourists) place spotlight on restaurants that don’t serve local food. That being said, there's a vast number of local spots …
Hong Kong Neighborhood Spotlight: Sai Ying Pun Food – the Local EditionRead More
It’s Day 124 since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Hong Kong. And maybe week 15 (or is it 19?) for generalized panic-buying mayhem, mindless scrolling through TikTok videos, and Zoom happy hours – anything to put off the gloomy resignation for our current state of affairs. The days all seem to blend together in one big depressing block of humanity. When you can’t tell your Saturday …
I Didn’t Go to the Gym For Two Months. Nothing Bad Happened to Me or My Body.Read More
I am not what you would call a naturally active person. When I was eleven years old, my well-intentioned mother got me a membership to not only the local YMCA, but a neighborhood center with an indoor swimming pool. Although I don’t recall her explicitly telling me that I needed to lose weight, I recall a distinctive memory around the same time period where I calmly explained to my piano teacher …
Dragon’s Back Hike: A Great Introduction to the Hiking Trails of Hong KongRead More
It’s the end of April here in Hong Kong. The weather is now decidedly sunnier – balmy breezes intersperse with damp air and gently cool nights. People laugh in small groups in front of restaurant shop fronts and share bottles of white wine, plunked in buckets of ice, al fresco. It’s an idyllic picture of spring in the city – so, not exactly the breezy warm days that countries in the four-season …
Why the 2-Hour Journey to Tap Mun Island (Grass Island) in Hong Kong Is Totally Worth itRead More
I want to talk about the must-try foods in Hong Kong, mostly because food is one of the few things that I am thinking about nonstop, and Hong Kong (and Asian food in general) is usually full of glorious carbohydrates, which, if you know me by now, is my favorite food group. I low-key wish they'd bring back this carb-tastic Food Pyramid, instead of the decidedly fruit-and-vegetable …
25 Must-Try Foods in Hong Kong For the Ultimate Local Eating ExperienceRead More
Disclaimer: I am so comparatively ignorant about this subject in comparison to the absolute avalanche of information there is out there on the coronavirus. Please take this post for what it is: a well-intentioned but probably misinformed rambling from this rando living in Hong Kong. Also, I voted last week from abroad, which I'm excited about, but also depressed because the 2020 primaries look …
For as long as I can remember, the Asian-American identity had existed in various forms before I’d even known that being an ABC (American-born Chinese) was a thing. It was fed to me in drops and trickles: first through the works of Amy Tan, where I related strongly to her child protagonist Ying-ying St. Clair in the 1992 book The Moon Lady, the story of a headstrong and fairly obnoxious girl who …
ABC in Hong Kong: A Chinese American Story of Language, Loss, and HomeRead More
