Browsing: Hong Kong

Travel
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“He told me I would feel like this, he told me it would change me. I am sitting, drinking sloe gin with a seasoned traveller, a wit, a sage of sorts. Let us for sake of discretion call him The Minister.”

Asian
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You’d never really know it until you’re up there, high above everything, but London sprawls in a way that shocks you, there is a shapeless morbidity to our capital.

Asian
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“Chinese chef, Alvin Leung, is something of a legend in Asian gastronomic circles, an avant garde performer who stands alone in terms of creative vision and culinary style.”

Asian
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“The lobsters are the most generously proportioned I’ve ever seen. They sit in huge tanks in the centre of the restaurant, beautiful and languid and blissfully unaware that there’s a small Chinese man coming towards them with a portable net in his right hand…”

Hotels
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Many miles from the antique charms of a traditional English country house hotel, Douglas Blyde checks-in at two couth city house hotels – in the mighty Zhongguo…

Travel
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“Just suck it straight off the toes.” Not a line one wants to hear while tucking in to a piece of foot-shaped food. It’s the last night of a trip to Hong Kong and I’m one of six huddled around a spread of various doughs and dim sum.

Tipples
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When grasshoppers, fish heads and raw tentacles prove too much for the stomach, there’s only one way to turn: whisky. Jihane Miller introduces three whiskies for when you don’t know your chicken feet from your chow mein.

Asian
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The Western diet is remarkably bland when one takes into consideration the brief menu of taxonomical delights that we choose to eat. Jackie Lee, in her adventures through Hong Kong, explores a very different kind of bite…