Pumpkin dumplings

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…

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….

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…