HOW HONG KONG HAS BECOME A DYSFUNCTIONAL BLOB WITH NO PLAN
Last night, a longtime Hong Kong Belonger bent my ear about how this city was finished, kaput and completely f***ed, and how he was...
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Mar 18, 20166 min read
THE PROBLEMS WITH THE MANY FACES OF HONG KONG
By Hans Ebert Hello darkness, my old friend, we have entered the dark side of the moon, but there’s a light at the end of this tunnel- a...
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Feb 26, 20164 min read
WHISKY HAS COME OF AGE IN HONG KONG
By Scott Murphy In his pristine clear glass and white tasting room, Hong Kong based Dragon 8 Auction Founder Gil Lempert-Schwarz is...
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Jan 27, 20163 min read
Are we seeing the death of Hong Kong’s Can Do spirit?
Marouche, the popular Lebanese restaurant in Cochrane Street, and one of the first tenants in this area where its operated for fifteen...
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Jan 8, 20162 min read
STARTING THE NEW YEAR WITH PURPOSE
By Jenny Bridle Every New Year’s many people make resolutions about losing weight, quitting smoking. Friends say they’re giving up...
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Jan 8, 20161 min read
The #iPhone Art and Lens Magic of #Evelyn Sieber
Long before almost everyone just had to have an iPhone, and years before apps, Instagram, and living in the twitterverse, Evelyne Sieber...
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Dec 2, 20155 min read
FLOCKANDCLAP!
This past weekend the eighth annual Clockenflap Festival took place at the West Kowloon Cultural grass and dirt mound by the harbor....
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Nov 23, 20153 min read
LIKE HOUSTON, HONG KONG, WE HAVE A PROBLEM
By Hans Ebert Before trying to attract tourists to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Tourism Board better put on their thinking caps and find ways...
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Nov 19, 20155 min read
NOT MANY VENUES, BUT WHERE’S THE NEW MUSIC TALENT, HONG KONG?
By Hans Ebert Speak to local musicians and most will moan about the lack of venues in Hong Kong. But, let’s say there suddenly were five...
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Nov 6, 20151 min read
THE SMOKE AND MIRRORS IN WANCHAI
By Hans Ebert The comings and goings and ins and outs of the Wanchai night scene has always been, well, colourful, but, these days,...
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Oct 30, 20155 min read
FEAR AND LOATHING IN HONG KONG
By Hans Ebert Robert DeNiro showed up. So did Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese. In fact, Scorsese even directed and produced a...
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Oct 13, 20155 min read
The Hong Kong F&B Industry: Too much of a defeatist attitude by too many?
By Hans Ebert The sudden and very sad passing last week of well-known restaurateur Paul Buxton, who owned the popular restaurants The...
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Oct 10, 20157 min read
THE PLASTIC HALLWAY OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
By Hans Ebert It takes a lot for a train to cry and it takes a lot for a dam to burst and, gawd knows, it takes having to sidestep so...
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Oct 1, 20152 min read
HONG KONG’S SUDDEN “SOUTHEAST ASIAN” MENACE
“What are you staring at?” “Excuse me?” “Are you staring at us? We’re Bangladeshis!” “Not at all. We’re not even looking at you.” This...
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Sep 29, 20152 min read
A WALK ON THE WEIRD SIDE: GETTING THE MOST OUT OF HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL WEEK (PART 6)
CINTA-J Shop G-4, Malaysia Bldg, 69 Jaffe Rd., Wan Chai T: +852 2529 6622 One of the oldest restaurants in Hong Kong, and certainly the...
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Sep 29, 20153 min read
Hong Kong’s F&B Industry: The Ins, Outs and Overrated
The term “flavour of the month” doesn’t ring more true than when talking about Hong Kong’s dog-eat-dog world of restaurants, bars and...
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Sep 23, 20152 min read
THE MUSIC THANG: HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF HKIR WEEK (PART 5)
Hong Kong has so many things going for it, but when it comes to its music industry or a ‘live’ music scene, it’s a non-starter. For the...
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Sep 21, 20152 min read
HONG KONG’S RESTAURANT AND CLUB SCENES: WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT AND WHAT’S REALL
The news a few weeks ago that one of Hong Kong’s larger-than-life characters in the local restaurant industry who had his name branded on...
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Sep 17, 20154 min read
THE LEFT FIELD GUIDE TO GET THE MOST OUT OF HKIR WEEK (Part 4)
NO PAIN, NO GAIN WITHOUT REFLEXOLOGY. We all have different ways to unwind in Hong Kong like all the touristy things- the ride up to the...
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Sep 16, 20152 min read
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FASHION TV?
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts about of that larger than life character from around 5-10 years ago in Michel Adam, Founder of the...
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