I don’t normally do two posts in one day so I hope you’ll forgive me. You see some special little guests are roaming around Hong Kong at the moment creating flash mobs and they just happened to be 15 minutes down the road from me so I thought I would pop by and see them … Continue reading
Recently I have had a few people ask me what we are going to do when Shanghai Disney Resort opens. This question is often followed by the comment “Hong Kong Disneyland will have to close because it won’t have visitors anymore.”. I’m a little shocked by the totalitarian view that this region of Asia can … Continue reading
Ah the Hong Kong Science Museum. Possibly one of my sprogs favourite places to venture in Tsim Sha Tsui. I’ve talked about it before, and I’m going to mention it again as it currently has a Dinosaur exhibition running until April. Who doesn’t LOVE dinosaurs. They inspire and intrigue us. They make us question life, … Continue reading
Before moving to Hong Kong when I thought of Spring Onion (also known as green onion or shallot in various parts of the world) it was normally as a part of a salad or addition to a sauce. Nowadays it is the main ingredient in one of my favourite Shanghainese snack foods in Hong Kong. … Continue reading
Mid-Autumn Festival is a time of celebration in Hong Kong and one my kids adore. It is a time when the weather is (theoretically) cooling down, the moon is full overhead (and the photo above proves it!) and everyone enjoys the beauty of the lanterns. We partake of a trip to Victoria Park to see … Continue reading
There is nothing like coming home to the ever changing vista of Hong Kong harbour out my window. As part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Establishment Day celebrations China sent a couple of their warships to the party. This one – a stealth missile corvette (light warship) armed with a 76mm main gun, just … Continue reading
Chime Long has a lot of animals. Within the hotel there is a restaurant called the ‘White Tiger Restaurant’. It has a white tiger enclosure as well as a pink flamingo enclosure. The hotel lobby cafe has another white tiger enclosure with juvenile tigers frolicking in the water and surrounds. These are all teasers for … Continue reading
One doesn’t know what to expect from a circus these days. This is true of the Chime-Long circus too. The best way I can describe it is a little Cirque Du Soleil combined with traditional and modern circus acts. Clowns joked with each other in extravagant European influenced costumes while acrobats swung, danced and contorted overhead. … Continue reading
We’ve been pretty slack. Living in Hong Kong three years, and we had yet to take the kids into China. We’d been intending to take them since we first got here, but time, money and scheduling had always been against us. It’s silly really. China is only 45 minutes away – we shouldn’t have an … Continue reading
Unlike my beloved Australia (where my fave band provided inspiration for this blog title), Hong Kong is in close proximity to other countries. Unlike Australia and New Zealand, you don’t even need to jump on a plane or boat to cross the border into other countries. Even more novel (for those of us from Down … Continue reading
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