As an avid sports fan growing up, my exposure to rugby was pretty abysmal. In Canada, it ranks shockingly low on our national depth chart for spectator sports, competing for airtime with coverage of billiards trick-shot challenges, competitive five-pin bowling, celebrity hold’em tournaments...
Hong Kong may be better known for its kung-fu flicks, slapstick comedies and triad shoot-em-ups, but in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we decided to honor the city’s romantic side by recreating a few famous scenes from Hong Kong-set films. The movies mentioned here range from Hollywood-...
Our Most Prolific Snakes
“There are 52 native species of snakes recorded in Hong Kong. The five most common snakes are the bamboo snake, Chinese cobra, red-necked keelback, many-banded krait and common rat snake."
How Many Are Venomous?
“Out of the 52 native species recorded, 14...
Bamboo Snake
Scientific name: Trimeresurus albolabris
Size: Average size 50cm, but can reach up to 90cm
Appearance: Bright green with a yellow (female) or white (male) underbelly. Reddish-brown streak in the tail. Triangular-shaped head with orange-yellow eyes.
Distribution: Common in hilly...
Chief Executive CY Leung delivered his policy address on Wednesday. To keep things lively during what has for years proven to be a vapid spectacle, we spiced it up with a fun drinking game that left us nicely blackout drunk when all was said and done. We heartily recommend it for the next one.
In...
With the Oscars coming up, Hong Kong cinemas are about to be inundated with big-budget releases (a few months later than the rest of the world saw ‘em, but whatever). We’re wondering what some of these flicks would be like with a Hong Kong twist.
The Wife of Pi
Pi Chan’s wife...
2012 has been a funny year, with protests and anger at the government on a scale that we’ve not seen in Hong Kong for almost a decade. Each successive scandal has exposed just what an old boys’ club it is in our top tiers of government—but hey, at the end of the day (or year), you...
January
Many Hongkongers are surprised to still be alive after the Mayan prophecy fails to pass. Office workers abashedly start asking for their jobs back after having upended their desks and trashed their conference rooms on December 20th.
February
The Year of the Snake begins dramatically when a...
