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Mid Autumn Festival 中秋節
Mid Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Lantern Festival, all one and the same thing, was yesterday (3 October 2009). There’s lots of history behind this Chinese festival, from story of war-torn era with hidden secret slip inside mooncakes (George told me that yesterday) to legend of beautiful princess (hence the decoration on some mooncake boxes… again [...]
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景德镇 Jĭngdézhèn?
Back in October 2006, we took a somewhat adventurous?, train ride from Hong Kong to Shanghai. It was our first long-distance train ride in China (so, longer than Hung Hom to Dongguan or Guangzhou East trains). We left HK at 3pm, and arrived Shanghai at 4pm (that’s 25hours). We had the first class delux sleeper [...]
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Tian Shanghai 天上海
Shanghai, China’s proud ever-growing metropolis, with well known turbulent history spanning over recent 100 years (& most probably more).
Description from the book: Colored. Qing Dynasty. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. 28×50cm.
The use of the railway in China was recorded in a piece of writing of 1875. The upper portion of this work is the depiction of a [...]
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韓国 Korea
Korea trip with the Engstrom girls from Japan, April 2005! Geez that’s a while back. It was nice to see Vivien again as she’s in another far away land now ;-( Seoul was quite interesting – at that time, there seem to be more vibrant than Tokyo (it probably still is), food was delicious everywhere [...]
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香港照明 Hong Kong Illuminations
There’s no doubt that people in HK (& of course China!) loves to decorate their towns, homes, schools, shopping malls, parks… Here are some examples that we’ve captured on photos so far.
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Food in London July ‘09
Not as bad as you think, & certainly as I remember – from my first trip to that side of the world in 2000…
Although the exchange rate has significantly improved (from 25p=AUD1, to 50p=AUD1), prices of food & drinks hasn’t seem to have changed?!?! Definitely there are more proper ‘cafe’ type places around, such as [...]
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高尾山・卯かい懐石 Kaiseki experience in Takaozan
It was Mike’s first time in Japan (therefore, Tokyo) & it was very nice of mum & dad to take us to a trip up (well, sort of, to the foothills) to Mt Takao, a Michellin travel guide 3 star tourist destination, to enjoy the first of autumn colours, as well as a Kaiseki lunch [...]
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景徳鎮陶瓷 Chinese porcelain from Ywe Hua
We went to YweHua Chinese department store in Jordan looking for Birthday present for Margaret (we did find some nice things in the end – parcel on its way). The department store is huge, with lots of interesting things, so we had a good hour or so looking through things (I’ll be sure to go [...]
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Delhi Club, Indian in Chungking Mansion
We’ve been meaning to try Indian food in Hong Kong, particularly from many Indian places in Chungking Mansion in Tsim Sar Tsui. A little bit unnerving place unless you know what you’re doing because, for those who’s been to Hong Kong, you’ll remember it as area near the TST MTR exit which is a hang [...]
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飲茶 Yum Cha
Does Yum Cha need any introduction? Culinary invention of Guangdong Cuisine.
Yum Cha, is what you do, Dim sim is what you eat at Yum Cha!