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 …
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ABC in Hong Kong: A Chinese American Story of Language, Loss, and Home
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 …
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Day Trip to Lamma Island: The Perfect Way to Relax When Visiting Hong Kong
When I’m not traveling (which, contrary to what my Instagram says, is very, very, often), I like to be in bed. Although I am the proud owner of a white table from IKEA with one wobbly leg and the temporary inheritor of an itchy two-seater sofa, under which I’ve carefully laid the rug that looked the least like it came straight from a college grad’s first apartment, the habits that I’ve established …
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How to Visit Victoria Peak: Hong Kong’s Most Popular Viewpoint
So, you want to visit Victoria Peak. Look, I’m the last person to tell you to do something because it’s awesome and amazing just because it’s the second-most-popular activity on TripAdvisor for a city. Some of those things suck (looking at you, Walk of Stars). Some of them are only fairly good. And only a few of them are as “fun!” and “spectacular!” as Lonely Planet says they are. I would …
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Hong Kong Neighborhood Spotlight: Best Local Food in Sheung Wan
It takes some real courage to eat local in Hong Kong. It really does. In most restaurants around the world, there’s a modicum of behaviour that you generally come to expect. Someone will greet you. You get to sit with the people you came with. There are napkins somewhere. Rarely, in other parts of the world, do we accept being screamed at, your order being shouted across the restaurant, plates …
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Is It Safe to Travel to Hong Kong Now, as the City is Rocked by Protests? A Perspective from Hong Kong
Billowing smoke. Multicolored umbrellas held aloft. Subway stations set on fire. Defiant messages spray-painted on glass windows. FREE HONG KONG HK IS NOT CHINA FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, STAND WITH HONG KONG PRESIDENT TRUMP, PLEASE LIBERATE HONG KONG Hong Kong, a former British colony that was returned to Chinese control in 1997, is having its largest political reckoning in …
There’s Virtue in Bland Food – Or, How I Found Home in Hong Kong Macaroni Soup
Growing up, it was about breakfast. My father shook the top of my duvet until I cracked my eyes open - or, if he was feeling funny that morning, would gently place his index finger horizontally across my nostrils, giggling to himself as my eyelids flew open, satisfied that I was sufficiently awake. One day it might be a reheated frozen muffin - a 700- calorie monstrosity from a megapack …
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