Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival from your living room (1)
Whether you are new in Hong Kong or you have lived here many years, you are certainly going to be disappointed you cannot celebrate mid-autumn festival the right way. Most celebrations have been cancelled and only the mooncake frenzy evokes that this is a festive time of year. In order to tame the disappointment, we would like to recommend some videos...
All you need to know about moon cakes in Hong Kong
You only need to take one look at moon cakes to feel full and with the excessive publicity, full racks in supermarkets and new flavors created for the occasion, overdosing is dangerously close! The ancestral recipe uses salty egg yolks (still prepared in Tai O village where visitors often take them for dry apricots … beware!) but has evolved and also...
Hungry like a Hungry Ghost!
On the 15th night of the 7th lunar month, the Hungry Ghosts Festival is taking place. This Chinese celebration is very popular in Hong Kong and in China but also in Singapore and other Chinese communities across Asia. The legend says that during that month, lonely spirits of dead ancestors come back to roam the living world. In order to stay...
Travelers’ Choice 2020
Very proud to be awarded TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice 2020 which honours select destinations, airlines, accommodations, attractions, experiences and restaurants around the world. "We want to properly honor winners who consistently stood out to travelers for their outstanding service and quality. As travelers and diners begin to venture out again, award winners will be equipped with this accolade as a reflection of...
Holiday Game
The Covid-19 crisis, which started towards the end of January 2020 in Hong Kong, has had a very big impact on the tourism industry worldwide but mostly locally. And Hong Kong a la carte, just like all other actors within the industry, has suffered a major blow. Firstly, the suspension of passenger flights led to massive cancellations of tours that had...
Snake soup
Unlike most of us, it seems Stephanie and Alexandra have not been traumatised by the eyes’ soup in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom! While both come from the country where beef’s tongue and frog’s legs are considered delicacies, why not give snake soup a try? Snake soup is a Chinese dietary meal that is associated with...
Dragon Boat Festival
Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Tuen Ng Festival, is organized. On that day, many Dragon Boat races take place throughout Hong Kong. The legend says that thousands of years ago, Qu Yuan, an elderly man disillusioned with the government in power, jumped in the river to protest. Villagers...
Cheung Chau Bun Festival
Today starts one of Hong Kong’s most popular events: Cheung Chau Bun Festival. From 9 to 13 may, the Taoist god Pak Tai will be praised in order to appease the island’s ghosts. The origin of this celebration dates back to the plague epidemics that took place on Cheung Chau Island in 1777 and towards the end of the 19th century....
West Kowloon train station
The closing of the old KCR train station situated on Tsim Sha Tsui’s waterfront, left great bitterness when it was demolished in 1978. Despite a vehement petition, the colonial landmark that had originally been built on reclaimed land in 1910, had to be taken down to make way to a new “cultural zone” with a pedestal, the controversially designed Kowloon...
A quick guide to Lai See (red envelopes)
What is it? You may have heard many stories about the origin of red envelopes; the most widespread dates back to the Qin Dynasty when elderly people would thread coins with a red string. The money was referred to as “money to avoid old age” and was believed to protect the person from sickness and death. It was eventually replaced by...