New bars pop up every week in Hong Kong, like a clan of beer-swilling meerkats. And every one of them is spoiling for a fight. Every one of them wants to be the best new bar in Hong Kong—that’s no easy get. We pit these newcomers to the drinking scene against each other—and may...
Spear Season
We may be more familiar with its more famous green counterpart, but May and June is white asparagus season, and there’s no better (or other) time to indulge. This vampiric veggie is a spring delicacy, and a food connoisseur’s dream. It’s prized throughout Europe, and...
HK Magazine: Do you remember growing up and deciding: “I want to be a comic?”
Ryan Stout: I was always interested. From the time I was seven or eight, I would stay up and watch A&E’s “Evening at the Improv.” I remember writing down the jokes that I enjoyed. I...
I’ve spent all my life in Hong Kong. I grew up in To Kwa Wan and went to school in Kowloon.
When I was younger, because my family wasn’t well off, I didn’t necessarily have a lot of things that other children had.
Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot. I lived by Kai Tak Airport,...
HK Magazine: Tell me about your chess background.
Benjamin Chui: My dad gave me a porcelain chess set as a gift when I was seven years old. I started playing it with my schoolmates and neighbors. Then I began taking part in national tournaments in the USA when I was in secondary school and...
The Rubber Duck has been in the harbor for three weeks now. The countdown to permanent deflation begins. Not for maintenance, nor to protect it from cigarette butt-flinging mainlanders (according to some reports). Sadly, this cheerful bobbing idol was only ever a temporary distraction from all our...
I had my credit card payment refused when I tried to pay the bill of a dinner with a group of friends. Without enough cash in my pocket, embarrassingly, my friend had to smile and put it on his card.
The restaurant manager made me lose face. I was told to call the Hang Seng card service center.
I...
All winter we have groaned and waited
Assumed we’d never be elated
In front of gods we’d all prostrated
To pray away the cold.
This winter it rained, it poured, typhooned
Old men complained, fair maidens swooned
We wished it might be over soon
But life would not be so bold.
In...
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Giant Sequoias are the biggest trees on the planet. Many are more than 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Their longevity is legendary, too. They can live for 2,000 years. And yet their seeds are tiny. If you had a bag of 91,000 seeds, it would weigh one pound. I suspect there...
Dear Mr. Know-It-All,
We have some unwanted guests of the household pest variety, and were wondering whether there are any pest control companies that could take care of them with minimum disruption to our daily schedule. Better still, it would be ideal if we can stay home as they fumigate. As we...
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