Category — Hong Kong

The branch of Taste Supermarket in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Tong Festival Walk shopping mall has a display of these strange shaped watermelons from Japan. They’re super expensive! (Prices in Hong Kong dollars)

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Having lived in Hong Kong the past eight months, we’ve yet to be in the country when a T8+ hits, let alone witness the view when it hits the skyscrapers. However, this beautiful time lapse video shows four successive rain walls between 7am and 9pm from June 2009’s Typhoon Nangka.

Via The Awesomer

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The Michelin Guide has arrived in Hong Kong but the UK’s Guardian newspaper picks up on all the cheap places to eat where the food is just as good.

Click to read their top ten pick of the country’s best, cheap Chinese food

Via the British-Born Chinese blog

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The blog Hong Kong Hustle takes a look at the history of Hong Kong hip hop in videos. US import MC Jin is currently doing the rounds in Hong Kong on billboards and tv ads endorsing Vita Lemon Tea. Check out the link for a bit of insight into some Chinese urban street culture.

Hong Kong Hip Hop history – in videos!

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Pop Wuping posts the following image of a Chinese pawn ticket. Apparently, in the 1950s, most small Hong Kong shopkeepers still used an abacus for calculations, and a brush rather than a pen for their accounts and receipts. Bits of ephemera like these seem to be rare in current times, but I still look out for them when traveling.

Via PopWuping

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A previous post about the truckers of Japan show that they colour their vehicles with beautifully painted landscapes and details, whilst at night, their fluorescent handiwork shines through with bold and colourful light displays.

Labeled Decotora, short for decorated trucks, we came across radio controlled scale models of a couple of designs in Hong Kong’s City Super stores. Not sure if they’re sold anywhere else in or outside Hong Kong.

www.citysuper.com

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Last year, Hong Kong lifestyle store Goods of Desire (G.O.D.) released a set of four butt-shaped moon cakes which definitely added humour to the Mid-Autumn Festival. See the previous post here.

Well, they’ve done it again for 2009 but with an additional four new variations giving you eight asses to choose from!

Each moon cake is individually packed in a box resembling a Chinese calendar with the date of the Autumn Moon Festival. However, you won’t be able to identify which style you get, so if you want all eight, you gotta buy at least eight boxes. Shrewd business, but if you’re traditional, you’ll stick with eight-anything anyway…

Check the G.O.D. website

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Fans of The Godfather films and designer toys will love this new figure by coveted Hong Kong figure artist Michael Lau. The Godfather figure is the first product from MINDstyle’s Godfather licensing deal with Paramount.

This figure will be released at the “Family Tradition” art exhibition on Sunday, July 19th @ De La Barracuda in Hollywood.

Read more on Vinyl Pulse

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For a Google Earth-style 3D Map of Hong Kong, check out the Edushi website. It maps out Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Penisula, across the harbour, in 3D.

3D Hong Kong Map

Thanks Stefan.

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McDonalds in Hong Kong have a new promotion out for Hello Kitty fans. It’s a 35th Anniversary project called Kitty Lab and involves six little Hello Kitty soft toys to collect.

They can be bought for HK$20 each with any food purchase or, as my girlfriend has done, the whole lot can be bought for HK$188. She got a free Hello Kitty bag which looks like her head, and some cards.

The six Hello Kitty characters are the Original, Baby, Strawberry, Devil, Pirate and Dr.Kitty.

There is a dedicated website at KittyLab.com but at this moment, it’s not live. Kitty fans, keep an eye out for it!

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