THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES ON PUSHERS, CENTRAL POLICE STATION AND THE LKF TAXI MENACE
Plenty of rumours swirling around town as to who has had successful tenders to open restaurants or clubs or bars and everything...
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Jul 27, 20150 min read
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Jul 24, 20152 min read
THE ALLEY CAT DIARIES
While the brain drain from Hong Kong to Swingabore continues unabated with a government seemingly oblivious to this and even trying to...
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Jul 18, 20152 min read
6 YEAR OLD CELINE YEUNG, HER MOTHER AND THE GREED OF HONG KONG’S PIMPING STAGE MUMS
Stage mothers have always been part of showbiz with, often, an unhealthy control over the careers of their children, especially...
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Jul 18, 20152 min read
Is Hong Kong a Music Town?
Is the Pope Jewish? Well, that’s a whole other argument…but the answer to both questions is a resounding NO. That doesn’t mean that a lot...
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Jul 2, 20154 min read
BANKERS, WANKERS AND HONG KONG’S NOT SO MAGNIFICENT NEW OBSESSIONS
My old friend- and he’s now very old- Michael “Methuselah” Chugani, below, recently wrote in his Public Eye column in the SCMP about the...
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Jun 21, 20153 min read
HONG KONG AND ITS FLAVOURS OF THE MONTH
In just about every facet of life, Hong Kong is all about religiously following every flavour of the month, whether Canto-pop moppets,...
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Jun 8, 20152 min read
THE BLUE BAR: FROM SELFIES TO, THANKFULLY, LIZA MELFI
It’s all about the repertoire. And if the interpretation and delivery don’t take some of the greatest songs written and batter and bruise...
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Jun 3, 20153 min read
HARD ROCK CAFE IN HONG KONG AND A MILLION QUESTIONS
“Imagine if that was a cool looking white band up there and the Filipino band toured the States,” said the person sitting next to me as I...
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Jun 1, 20154 min read
HONG KONG: LESS OF ALL THAT JIZZ AND MORE BE BOP A LOO LA
They might think they’re playing “jazz” when in actuality, they’re simply retreading well-known standards, yet, for reasons unknown to...
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May 14, 20152 min read
WHY JESSICA EDMUNDS SHOULD BE HEARD
Hotel lounge singers are not exactly my plat du jour- never have been and never will- as nine times outta ten, they are mediocre talent...
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Apr 28, 20152 min read
GECKO FORCED TO CLOSE ITS DOORS WHILE NIGERIAN DRUG DEALERS EXPAND THEIR BUSINESS IN HONG KONG
The news that Gecko has closed isn’t exactly a surprise, though another body blow to what’s left of Hong Kong’s fast-diminishing ‘live’...
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Apr 16, 20154 min read
HONG KONG AND EXPAT PACKAGES: WHY?
From the days when Hong Kong was a “barren rock” to today, many from all parts of the world, and through sheer hard work and an...
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Apr 5, 20154 min read
KEEPING UP PRETENCES IN THE NEW HONG KONG
There might be new fool born every minute, but there’s also a new con being hatched every nanu second with most of these being splattered...
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Mar 24, 20151 min read
THE FAST TRACK TOP TEN OF EVERYTHING IN HONG KONG (not in any order of priority)
A ride on the Star Ferry The Four Season’s Blue Bar Mini Burgers The Grand Hyatt Coffee Shop Hainan Chicken Rice Ho Lee Fook’s Spicy...
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Mar 8, 20153 min read
HAS THE BLUE BAR GOT IT RIGHT OR GOT IT WRONG? AGAIN.
One has to give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, it was their first night playing together while most at the Blue Bar, our...
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Mar 4, 20153 min read
A THIRD TV STATION? HONG KONG BARELY HAS TWO!
While some are threatening to give Hong Kong a third television station- oh, please, God, no- isn’t there one of those government...
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Mar 3, 20156 min read
HONG KONG’S RESTAURANT BUSINESS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE FUGLY
“It’s ninety percent perception and ten percent luck”. While dining at a restaurant I hadn’t frequented in a while, its owner spoke...
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Feb 28, 20151 min read
HO LEE FOOK, BATMAN! IT THINKS IT’S INDISPENSABLE
We’ve gone back and forth about the nouveau Chinoise restaurant Ho Lee Fook: Yes, we like it,no we don’t, yes, we like it, nah, it’s...
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