Today marks a fortnight since the start of the Chinese New Year, also the end of the formal celebrations of the festive period, a day called yuan xiao (‘元宵’) sometimes dubbed…
How do we celebrate Chinese New Year?
This year’s Chinese or Lunar New Year falls on Saturday 28 January. It commences the Year of the Rooster, which according to my Chinese wall calendar, this zodiac sign symbolises…
Losing weight with konjac
New Year, New You. The turning of the New Year offers many to set their resolutions, personal challenges and self-improvement, and a lot of them relates to being fitter and healthier….
Wedding ‘gastropolitics’ – what’s going on?
Our trip to Hong Kong culminated at a relation’s wedding banquet, which spanned over two days at a 5-star hotel hosted by the groom’s side, to be continued at the…
Hong Kong foodscape
One of my key projects in Hong Kong is to explore its local food-scape – what is it and who informs it? A rather trendy term popular in recent discourses…
Hong Kong Halloween
Like many other festivals which have a high commercial value, Halloween has become a very popular occasion for expat and locals alike in Hong Kong. When I was a child, there…
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