YOUR GUIDE TO GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LONGINES HKIR WEEK (PART THREE)
There are a number of Must Do’s when visiting Hong Kong and when it comes to cuisine, it’s finding the best places for Hainan Chicken...
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Sep 8, 20152 min read
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NO LONGER GOLD IN HONG KONG
As anyone who knows anything about Hong Kong knows, way too much is all about smoke and mirrors and keeping up pretences, whether...
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Sep 7, 20155 min read
THE VISITORS GUIDE TO GETTING THE MOST OUT OF HKIR WEEK (PART TWO)
The migration process has begun. Actually, migration is constant as it’s all about change, and there’s no stopping change in Hong Kong....
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Sep 6, 20156 min read
YOUR GUIDE TO GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LONGINES HKIR WEEK
The first in a 12-step programme to introduce and re-introduce you to what else Hong Kong offers other than The United Nations of Racing...
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Sep 3, 20151 min read
MICHAEL WONG: THE DAVID HASSELHOFF OF HONG KONG?
Part-time B Grade actor, singer and full-time quasi-celebrity Michael Wong aka The Wongster is a nice enough guy- someone not really good...
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Aug 31, 20152 min read
THE ABSOLUTE USELESSNESS OF PCCW NETVIGATOR
When the share prices of PCCW plummeted all those years ago from a high of around $26 to a measly two bucks, it made instant paupers of...
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Aug 28, 20152 min read
BRAVO, ALLAN ZEMAN!
In an often-too often-very uptight city where pretty regular people become “officials” and believe that this means having to act and...
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Aug 18, 20154 min read
HONG KONG’S UBER MENSCH TAXI WARS
We recently had the pleasure of taking our first ever Uber ride in Hong Kong. I must admit I was a bit ‘meh’ about the whole Uber...
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Aug 16, 20153 min read
HIDDEN STREET: ART OPENING AT PEARL LAM GALLERY
We had the pleasure of attending the Hidden Street contemporary street art opening last night at Pearl Lam’s new gallery in Sai Ying Pun....
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Aug 12, 20152 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: SCAMMERS OR BLACKMAILERS AND HIT BY SPAMALOT
The bizarre case of 73-year-old soprano Li Yuanrong having the fear of God and hellfire put into her so that she hurriedly ran around...
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Aug 11, 20154 min read
It Takes a City
Hong Kong you never fail to amaze and amuse. So two weeks ago we reported on the loss of a great Chinese Banyan tree in Sai Ying Pun. It...
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Aug 9, 20152 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: POSITIVELY CARNEGIE’S IN WANCHAI ON A FRIDAY NIGHT
What are we doing here, said the Joker to the Thief as we who are one walked into Carnegie’s in Wanchai, that theatre of the absurd where...
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Aug 9, 20151 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: THE DEATH OF SPICY FINGERS AND WILL WE DANCE FROM DUSK TILL DAWN?
The Filipino musicians blame the Nepalese, another faction of Hong Kong’s Nepalese community says that some of their brothers are fronts...
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Aug 6, 20152 min read
Titgate
As I sometimes do, I found myself idly perusing the Standard this afternoon after lunch. How this newspaper magically appears in my...
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Aug 3, 20153 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: ATV, COVERS BANDS AND WANCHAI DIES AGAIN
ATV SCRAPES THE BOTTOM OF ITS CONTENT BARREL. As we all know by now, terrestrial television station ATV is on its last wobbly legs...
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Aug 2, 20154 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: FAMILY FEUDS, THE HARVARD COMPLEX AND REALITY BITES
HONG KONG’S DEEP-SEATED AND ONGOING INDIAN-PAKISTANI FAMILY WAR. Lower Elgin Street is one of the more quiet areas in Soho. Some might...
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Jul 31, 20153 min read
THE ALLEY CAT: BRITPOP, BREASTS, MURDER AND THE $1.80 BOX LUNCH
If those geniuses running music companies in Asia- and very often, running them into the ground- took time out to figure out the...
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Jul 31, 20153 min read
A Tree Falls in Hong Kong
If you read the South China Morning Post, you may have noticed an article about a giant Chinese Banyan tree falling during one of the...
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Jul 29, 20152 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES: MAROONED IN CHINA, MADONNA IN HK AND THE HK GOVERNMENT’S TEFLON MAN
MAROONED IN CHINA Though the Stones and Dylan had to drop a few songs deemed unsuitable for sensitive ears by the country’s censors who...
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Jul 28, 20154 min read
TWENTY TWO PILOTS VS SODA GREEN
Wait, who? You may be thinking…that is if you don’t happen to be up on Alternative Rock or Taiwanese Pop Rock. But you are, of course....
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