Archive for the 'Hong Kong' Category

Battleground Hong Kong

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

(Photo by The Standard’s Simon Song. Image taken from the curbside collaborative blog about the 6th WTO ministerial conference by HK journo students)

HPS was a little bit sorry about the fact that we’d let the opportunity slip to post about the third (and now seemingly annual) big pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, […]

Gorging ourselves on Peaches of Immortality right now.

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

The next time my friends or relatives convene a cook-off, HPS is going to attempt to make one of our absolute favourite Dim Sum - cha siu bao. We’ll screw it up, of course.

It’s a steamed pork bun, basically. But that doesn’t do justice to the dish. A fluffy, stark white, piping hot bun encases […]

First the British. Then the PRC. Now Disney.

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Photo taken from the China Daily. The sandy area is all reclaimed land. They just filled in the sea. For Disneyland.

A protest by part of Hong Kong’s fishing industry went ahead on Monday. Lantau fish farmers moored 10 of their boats off Lantau Island (which already holds the Po Lin Buddhist monastry, and Chep […]