Musings on Life in Hong Kong

This is the latest piece of Palm Art coming out of my workshop.  One of the most satisfying pieces.  Take a think piece of palm leaf, flat...

Traditionally, most businesses are closed for Lunar New Year.  Some for 3, 4, 5 days, or even longer.   Today, however, as I ran through Tsi...

Late afternoon on Lunar New Year’s Eve, there are lots of people on the street.  People are buying big fat geese for family dinner, one of...

When I woke up this morning, it was too early to get out of bed, but I could not go back to sleep anymore.  So I prayed, as my usual practic...

Our Spring Book Club has been discussing the issue raised in Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are divided by Pol...

Roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes, peanuts, … - these are some of my favourite s treet foods.  I have been eating them, liking them, since...

Every winter, my wife and I would make a trip to a sausage factory in an industrial building in Sai Ying Pun to buy locally made Chinese sau...