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Watch Out For… We just had a live demonstration today from the folks behind Something Fresh (www.somethingfresh.com.hk), a new vegetarian food service that prepares ready-to-cook meals that then get delivered straight to your door. The idea behind this is that anybody who has a stove should...
May 10 2013
Adele Wong
Restaurants
Mr and Mrs Leung of Linva Tailor
HK Magazine: So, how old is Linva Tailor? Mrs. Leung: We’ve been around for 40 years now. This is our only store, and we have never moved. Our furniture is just as old as this store, and we still use paper receipts for our client records. I started out in fashion, and Mr. Leung specialized...
May 9 2013
Victoria Wong
City living
William Tang
I was born and brought up in Hong Kong in the New Territories. I went to Kingston, Ontario for high school. I graduated and took economics for my first degree in Canada, then went over to London, England to study my second degree in fashion design. I had no intention to do fashion design at all to...
May 8 2013
Adele Wong
Shopping
O Wonder!
The Mobile M+ Inflation Exhibition erected this month in West Kowloon includes a replica Stonehenge. It got us thinking: there just aren’t enough Wonders of the World in Hong Kong. Luckily, we’ve been snooping around the Planning Department and we’ve come across these wonders in...
May 6 2013
HK staff
City living
Sze Wai-ling
HK Magazine: So, what’s your pottery background? SWL: I have over 25 years of experience as a potter. Around 14 years ago, the person in charge of the St James’ Settlement’s rehabilitation service approached me and three fellow potters to set up a pottery workshop—it all...
May 6 2013
Kiki Elijandy
City living
Don’t Blame the Fairy Tale Writer
The “Iron Lady” didn’t earn her nickname without a few good reasons. Her fans mourn her departure with tears while her haters wish for her to “rust” in peace. It is now a truism that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—together with her accomplice Ronald...
May 6 2013
Chip Tsao
City living
Times Are Tough
Supermarket prices have risen by an average of 6.8 percent over the past year. Eggs have gone up 17.5 percent; fish 18.1 percent; and milk powder up 17.3 percent. Although that last one makes sense, because why wouldn’t you want to make a quick buck off of mainlanders? But it’s getting...
May 6 2013
HK staff
City living
The Evolution Asia Yoga Conference Comes to Hong Kong This June
Yoga’s Big Day Out Attention all yogis: The Evolution Asia Yoga Conference is happening here in Hong Kong from June 6 to June 9. Taking place over four days at the Convention Centre in Wan Chai, the conference is in its seventh year and it’s just getting bigger and better with each...
May 6 2013
Sarah Fung
Health
Gilbert Yeung
I was born and raised in Hong Kong until I was 13—my parents sent me to boarding school in Devon, England. So I went to boarding school for four years, then after that I went to Toronto for school and university. I came back to Hong Kong in 1991. I didn’t know [I was going to be the...
May 3 2013
Andrea Lo
Nightlife
A History of Hong Kong Sauce
The Joy of Soy Hong Kong food doesn’t get more basic than soy sauce. The savory condiment has a long and colorful history: invented more than 2,000 years ago in China, over the centuries Asian countries have developed their own versions of the black gold. Japan and Korea like theirs milder;...
May 3 2013
Adele Wong
City living