No doubt one of your New Year’s resolutions was to lose weight, hit the gym, and start eating right. We can’t force you onto a treadmill, but here are some great, tasty ways of keeping the calories off!
Just Salads
Various locations including 30-34 Cochrane St., Central, 2850-6818.
Do-...
2010 was a hotpot of a year: it started with a solid base, and then all kinds of
crap got thrown in. From Post-80s protesters to mass Legco walkouts to ineffectual
democratic reform, our government has been feeling the heat from all sides. Add the pseudo models banned from the book fair, the...
Film
Toy Story 3 (USA)
Mournful, touching, and redemptive: the perfect ending to a series that you didn’t realize you cared that much about. Also, talking toys.
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Don’t you wish your girlfriend was… a Swedish vampire who can break a school bully’...
Hanjin Tan
Music producer and singer-songwriter
"When I was 12, I found out I was 50 percent deaf in the right ear, and 25 percent in the left. But everything more than zero is a blessing. Nobody owes me shit. The universe doesn’t owe you anything."
Law Ka-ying
Chinese opera singer...
Big Name Bash
Count down to the New Year at the White Hot NYE Party with DJ James Lavella at The Mira. The master of progressive house from the UK flies in for one night only to ring in 2011 with the ultimate dance event. Tickets purchased between now and December 30 cost $1,100, which include an...
B for Bowers. It may sound vain, but people often mispronounce my last name, plus there were two Chrises in my old band, so I just told people to call me Chris B.
I was born and raised in Hong Kong. I’m half Chinese, half English. My father was in the prison service—he used to work at...
Living in an awesome place like Hong Kong, it’s inevitable that some acquaintance or other is going to take advantage of your hospitality and pay you a visit. But if the thought of one more trip up to the Big Buddha makes you want to flick the “plummet” switch in your cable car,...
I came out to Hong Kong to import ladies’ sweaters.
At the age of 19 I had made my first million [U.S.] dollar profit.
For an entrepreneur it was like I’d found Nirvana. I’d arrived.
I loved the low tax base. I loved everything about Hong Kong. And I decided in a very short...
It’s the cute, spicy devil horns that got us with this drink. The “Corpse Riviver” [sic] is dash of Belvedere raspberry vodka blended with peach liquer, blue curaco, rose syrup, cranberry, grendadine and a squeeze of fresh lime. Definitely perk up those tired old bones before an...
It’s Halloween weekend, the dirtiest, most demonic weekend of the year, when Hong Kong’s nocturnal beasts descend on the city’s nocturnal districts to drink, dance and party. But rather than give you another se
