…bit tired of wordpress, will start posting at:
and maybe, maybe MYHK will move there definitely in the future.
Just thought I let the very few of you reading this know…
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Lately….
This and that
Tung Po Kitchen Part 2
Always rowdy, always loud, always too much beer, always with amazing company, but above all always delicious. (and always a hangover the next day)
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Our neighbours
We have noticed quite a lot of animal life in the ‘hood lately.
Meet Porky, the terracota warrior pig.
Chow Chau, the dog that sleeps on the sidewalk with or without a t-shirt.
Miado the cat that guards the kitchen door of a greasy dim sum restaurant.
Bambs and Peps the medicinal deer.
And last but never least Doug the auspicious jade duck.
Gotta love our urban zoo.
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Urban Hike
From Star Street, up the stairs at Ship Street, pass the haunted (beautiful) house, overtaking some tourists on their way down ( “hey! you’ve come the hard way” they quipped) left at Kennedy Road, on and on bypassing the fancy pansy 60´s residential buildings, over and under a semi highway at Cotton Tree Drive, around Hong Kong park, down Upper Albert Road, up Wyndham, left on Hollywood and safely home.
The weather was bliss. Sunny and clear but not too hot.
In Hong Kong the beginning of autumn feels like the beginning of spring elsewhere, airy and giddy. Finally done with the scorching summer heat, on with the open windows and off with the air conditioning!
Follow the red big road: http://bit.ly/E8zFL
Lunar July
It is Lunar July, the time of the year that according to old HK traditions the gates of Hell swing open and ghosts or lost souls take a stroll trying to find a place to stay.
Around the neighborhood we have seen families huddled around a small fire throwing paper bills at it. These are wishes of prosperity for their ancestors and also a way to calm down the roaming spirits that hide close to the walls and in shadowy areas. That is why, or so I have been told, in this time of the year one should not walk too close to the walls or dark areas…
I also heard that evil spirits reside in the 18th floor of Hell, although for Hong Kong standards nowadays I calculate that is more like the 44th floor (and forget about the harbour view!).
My neighbors in particular are burning incense next to the elevator to workship their ancestors with candles and incense. I can’t imagine seeing this in any of the apartment building I have lived in my life and yet it reminds me of my grandmother’s altar with Virgin Mary and the never ending candle.
