Why HK without g.o.d. lacks soul
I have some huge questions about the god person, but no qualms about believing in the power of g.o.d. to shake Hong Kong outta the...
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Jun 18, 20143 min read
THE RENAISSANCE OF LOWER ELGIN STREET
Call it the ugly duckling of Soho, or the area’s forgotten child, but, like the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, Lower Elgin Street has...
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Jun 14, 20142 min read
PMQ: it has everything.
If you still haven’t checked out PMQ, you are missing out, big time. That noise and loud music in Soho, a comparatively quiet district,...
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Jun 11, 20142 min read
THAT M1NT SHANGHAI EMAIL MAKES A COMEBACK
发件人: MINT Friends <mintfriends@yahoo.com> 日期: 2014年4月24日 GMT+822:48:25 收件人: mintfriends <mintfriends@yahoo.com> 主题: M1NT Shareholders ...
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Jun 10, 20142 min read
DOES HONG KONG REALLY NEED IRRELEVANT CELEBRITY CHEF RESTAURANTS?
It might have been a bit of mild fun around eight years ago. but just how interested are you that Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay will...
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Jun 9, 20142 min read
Ding Dong and thank gawd for Ding Dim 1968
It used to be called 14 Elgin, a small private club supposed to be a meeting point for the city’s movers and shakers. The problem was...
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Jun 8, 20142 min read
Rafael Hui’s spending spree- and you wonder why HK people are p***ed off?
Hong Kong is a very angry city- a frustrated, pissed off city- and the arrest of former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui on bribery charges...
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Jun 7, 20149 min read
HONG KONG AND THROUGH THE PAST DARKLY
And so after all the exams and time spent on English Literature, History and Art, it was time to grow up- and for some to slow up and...
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Jun 7, 20142 min read
DIAL-A-DINNER, BUT IS ANYONE THERE?
It was so much more simple then. There was only Food By Fone started up by the same group of semi-movers and shakers in Hong Kong who...
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Jun 3, 20141 min read
PEARL OF THE PEAK: A NEW LOW
Dining up on the Peak might have been an attraction over a decade ago when The Peak Cafe and Cafe Deco were restaurants that successfully...
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May 30, 20143 min read
Why Hong Kong is the white man’s bitch
“Hire some bloke from Spain or Greece or any other bankrupt country in Europe, give him a chef’s hat and customers will be falling over...
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May 28, 20143 min read
THE CONS AND MONOPOLIZING OF HONG KONG’S RESTAURANT BUSINESS
To Hong Kong’s foodies and anyone who enjoys going out not knowing where to dine but, with such a buffet of choices on offer, finding...
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May 11, 20142 min read
HONG KONG NIGHTLIFE AND CLASS DISTINCTIONS
It’s interesting just how territorial Hong Kong nightlife has become- a very civilized division of the pie where the local triads are in...
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May 10, 20142 min read
Anonymous Versus Alistair Paton and the M1NT saga
Dear Shareholder You are receiving this email because you are presumed to be a shareholder of M1NT Shanghai. The purpose of this email is...
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May 9, 20142 min read
THE SAD, BAD, DESPERATE STATE OF HONG KONG’S RESTAURANT SCENE
When restaurants suddenly say that they’re not open for lunch, it means one thing: Business is bad. And so it is with a number of...
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May 5, 20142 min read
G.O.D and the second coming of the Central Police Station
With summer well and truly upon us and the Hong Kong humidity worse than a gorilla’s armpit, a few friends and I decided we needed a...
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May 4, 20142 min read
THE OLD BISTRO MANCHU OPENS AGAIN AS MANCHU CHINA RESTAURANT
When Bistro Manchu in Elgin Street closed its doors at the end of last year, many of us fans of the restaurant shed a little tear. After...
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Apr 29, 20142 min read
Chicha and the cuisine and the waitress
After a successful day at the races on Sunday where our good mate- jockey Dougie Whyte- rode three winners, a few of us decided we needed...
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