Sham Shui Po is the most common answer to the question – "where should I go to buy cheap electronics". Being okay with Mongkok and Wanchai’s computer markets I never thought about going there, not even to buy "really cheap"
Shida night market : Taipei
Shida night market (師大夜市) used to be part of my daily routine for almost a semester. Back in the days, almost 5 years ago, when I took a semester of studying Chinese in Taipei, Shida was where I headed for
Einstein in Hong Kong : HK Science Museum Exhibition
What do you know about Albert Einstein and his genius scientific contribution? The Hong Kong Science Museum has repeatedly succeeded in putting up terrific exhibitions about very popular science related topics that we somehow know very little about. Previous one
Sai Kung Peninsula
On a gorgeous sunny blue skies day I took out my newly bought Sony Alpha55 camera for a spin to try and capture the true beauty of the Sai Kung Peninsula surrounding my university. I went up to the highest
Flying Gliders on Wilson Trail Stage 4
On a gloomy hot Sunday in Hong Kong we set off to do the Wilson Trail stage 4 backwards from the Sha Tin Pass all the way east down hill towards Sai Kung. This trail shares a section with MacLehose
HK Problems (Twitter) + Complaints Choir of Hong Kong
#HKProblems trend started by @HKProblems is freaking fantastic. Every time I read one of those tweets I can’t help but smile and hope someone’s documenting those pearls of wisdom. Searching back in the last week, here are some of
Happy Valley : Shenzhen
I’ll try and make this simple for you. If you’re looking for an amusement park from a bad 70s b-movie then Shenzhen has just the thing for you. Happy Valley, which some claim can compete with Hong Kong’s Ocean Park
New York Jew in China : Exploring Chinese society
A Yiddish speaking New York Jew reporter Ross (Shmuel) Perlin covers China in a series of terrific videos discussing China and Chinese culture. With his relative fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Perlin goes around China taking a look at some very
HK International Travel Expo 2011
The Hong Kong International Travel Expo 2011 was held a few weeks ago in the Wan Chai Convention and Exhibition center and I decided to go have a look and see what I can learn about travel opportunities here in
Shanghai Municipal History Museum
How would you go about explaining the history of old Shanghai? the Shanghai Municipal History Museum took the visual path and decided that they’ll just show us. With real relics, supplemented with miniatures and puppets the history museum attempts to
