‘There is nothing in the world like Hongkong’:… An Australian painted a picture of Hong Kong both wonderful and weirdly familiar in a 1923 travelogue belatedly…
5 tricky Hong Kong street names, how to… Pronouncing some of Hong Kong’s English street names can be challenging – we reveal how to say five well-known ones…
Fried rice, protein, sauce – what’s not to like… Baked pork chop rice is a fusion dish that never goes out of fashion. But what should you look for, and where can…
Why Hong Kong’s 1900s STD contact tracing was… Hong Kong’s Covid contact tracing was ineffective, but a pre-digital mechanism for nipping sexually transmitted…
Staying original helps 107-year-old Hong Kong… Yan Chim Kee started selling coconut sweets in Hong Kong in 2015. Descendants of its founder say sticking to its…
Exhibition explores Hong Kong history from a… ‘Gender & Space’ at Tai Kwun covers the experience of women in Hong Kong’s first 100 years as a British colony…
Hong Kong journalists’ habit of ‘looking back’… Hong Kong journalists’ local history columns and radio shows from decades past are today disparaged by some as…
When Hong Kong’s first privately built… Hong Kong’s first privately built multistorey car park opened in Causeway Bay, with firecrackers, a cocktail party…
Photos of Hong Kong after World War II capture… Arriving in 1946, Hedda Morrison may have spent only six months in Hong Kong, but the German photographer left…
Christmas in Hong Kong was a celebration as… How has Hong Kong celebrated the Christian festival of Christmas since early times, and in what ways did this…