When you don't live in America, Thanksgiving is a time when you invite everyone you know to cook something and bring it to one of the larger apartments. So last week I spent an evening cooking--Pete made bread and I made wild rice stuffing and a pumpkin pie--and we trekked over to a friend's place.... Continue Reading →
Hong Kong is rife with escalators. I take at least 4 a day. There's one to get up to the footbridge-you go through a wet market, and if you go up the next one you'll be in a set of restaurants. There's one to go down from the footbridge, there's one to get to the... Continue Reading →
Smell of a city Today Hong Kong smelled like bread and herbs. Like fish in an alley. Like ocean breezes. Like incense. Like wooden furniture. Like basil. Like metal. Like gasoline. Like pollution. Like tea. Like a sanitized elevator. Like chocolate. Like body odor. Like refuse. Like rust. Like plastic. Like air conditioners. Like congee and... Continue Reading →
This is a list of a few things that I should have blogged about when they happened. Instead I am writing them as a list to let you know that there really are cool things in HK and I don't just wander aimlessly about. Excuse me while my detail suffers and scope broadens. 1 I... Continue Reading →
On Monday night ML and I were supposed to meet friends at Ozone. Neither of us had ever been to this bar, and we did not know how to get there. The friends texted us saying that it was in Kowloon, they were taking a cab, "walking is impossible." Kowloon is huge. That's like saying... Continue Reading →
There are 10,436 restaurants on Hong Kong Island according to Open Rice. There may be less than that, because sometimes they have closed listings. There are 12,628 listed in All of Kowloon. 9,130 restaurants in all of the New Territories. The outlying islands only have 831. That generous estimate amounts to 33,025 restaurants in the... Continue Reading →
I rely on public transportation everyday. I take the train to work, sometimes the bus or the tram. I also occasionally walk when the weather is nice. I should be honest though, it takes me 20-25 minutes to get from my front door to the office no matter which type of transportation I use; walking,... Continue Reading →
On Friday, I got into a cab and told the driver where I wanted to go. She turned and tried to clarify, and we had a brief exchange upon which she understood and sped off. She occasionally asked which way to take, to which I responded, "I don't know, whichever is faster." "Ah, Faster." She... Continue Reading →
I had an appointment this morning, and I had written down the address: 3rd floor 218 Queens Road. I got off the MTR in Central, found my way to the proper street (not a difficult task) and walked towards 218. After about 5 minutes I was in the 150s, and then after 10 I was... Continue Reading →
We have a small problem: we skipped a day of watering the plants. Ordinarily, this would not be a terrible thing. However, that week was unusually dry (i.e. the humidity was 50%) and the lemons take significant amounts of moisture. We went up to water the plants and eat breakfast, and half of the leaves... Continue Reading →
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