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Following up on our guide on Chinese New Year cakes and puddings, we now present to you our explainer on the more elusive CNY festive food: a wide assortment of deep-fried goods (油器 "oily tools" yau hay)...
0 Comments / Feb 09, 2021
This 19th century Hakka village was categorized as a monument along with the nearby lime kiln in 1981,...
0 Comments / Aug 13, 2020
What’s the tea on “green tea bitch” 綠茶婊 luk6 cha4 biu2, anyway? In case you were wondering,...
0 Comments / Feb 17, 2020
Cantonese expressions are not always filled with niceties. In fact, you could probably say the opposite about them. Enter 小三 siu2 saam1, yet another kind of sexist term that describes mistresses....
0 Comments / Feb 10, 2020
In this series, we explore expressions seen in everyday life and others with more obscure origins. You’ve...
0 Comments / Dec 05, 2019
An elevator convo with Rosann Ling of Prism Creative. See here for more from our Next Up series. What...
0 Comments / Oct 29, 2019
When it comes to eating in Chinese culture, the usual thinking is the more abundant and the more luxurious,...
0 Comments / Jan 26, 2021
In Chinese, there's a popular saying that goes, "winter solstice is more important than Chinese New Year"...
0 Comments / Dec 14, 2020
With Halloween approaching, it's officially spooky season. We love us some scary story-telling this time of year, and as urban legends go, Hong Kong is full of haunted spots, from the infamous "High Street...
0 Comments / Oct 27, 2020
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, expect to see homes and businesses teeming with colorful...
0 Comments / Jan 10, 2020
In this series, we explore expressions seen in everyday life and others with more obscure origins. As...
0 Comments / Jan 06, 2020
In September 2019, a two-storey building on 41 Cumberland Road in Kowloon Tong was torn down to make way for a center of Chinese studies. The teardown left nothing but an outdoor mosaic and four window...
0 Comments / Dec 19, 2019
