Category — Hong Kong

Christophe Jacrot shot photos of Hong Kong in the rain. Rain in the city isn’t exactly a rarity, but his photos turn the streets into pastel-like visual poetry.

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Aficionados of Chinese logos might enjoy this collection of airline logos from China and Hong Kong that design Christian Annyas has collated. Here are three below, with more on his site at the following link.

Airline Logos from China and Hong Kong

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If you’re familiar with hot pots – the idea of cooking your own meat morsels and vegetables at the table in a boiling hot broth, then perhaps take it to the next level with a few of these unusual variations in Hong Kong.

How about the egg white with salmon stock which starts your meal with a foaming layer of egg white?

Or perhaps try out some crocodile meat instead of beef? Tastes just like pork apparently.

See more: Hong Kong hot pot: Gourmet gimmicks we can’t resist

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CNNGo recommends a number of public bus routes in Hong Kong that are great for a spot of sight seeing. They include 64k, which runs to and from my “home town” of Tai Po and in my opinion, is pretty good at taking you away from the hustle of Kowloon and Hong Kong island.

Hong Kong’s top public bus sightseeing tours

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It should be no surprise that Hong Kong can boast to be a city of eastern culinary delights, but Italian? The 2012 Michelin Guide names Hong Kong’s 8 1/2 Otto e Mezzo Bombana as the first Italian restaurant outside of Italy to receive its renowned three-star rating.

The homecooking-as-fine-dining restaurant is headed by chef Umberto Bombana, aka King of Truffles, formerly of the renowned Toscana at the old Ritz-Carlton. See here for more about white truffle auctions held at the restaurant each year.

In other news, Tokyo receives the most Michelin stars in the world for the fifth consecutive year. But if you want to stick with Hong Kong stars, keep it affordable and check out the cheapest Michelin-starred dim sum in the world.

More on CNNGo

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CNNGo looks at the best dim sum served in Hong Kong based on a variety of criteria. For instance, our favourite place, Tim Ho Wan in Mongkok is great for best value (but not for the queues). Institutions like the Luk Yu Teahouse are there, along with places that offer the best rural experience and the best sense of community.

Check out the best Hong Kong dim sum…

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Perhaps if you’ve seen one you’ve seen it all. But once in awhile, it’s enlightening to trawl through a wet market and marvel at the plethora of sea creatures (and amphibians) slithering their last days in a bucket of water before ending up on a dinner table.

If there’s any place that does wet markets well, it’s Hong Kong – a city obsessed with freshness when it comes to food. CNNGo have list their top five according to quality, affordability, variety and atmosphere. Our home town Tai Po, New Territories, makes it in there – respect.

Best wet markets in Hong Kong

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Twitch Film reports on the Hong Kong Film Archive‘s announcement to screen their pick of the 100 must see movies, chosen from their archive of 90,000 films. A film will be shown every two weeks making the programme run for four years!

There’s plenty of martial arts favourites in there (our favourite being any of Tsui Hark’s Wong Fei Hung movies), together with a selection from all genres. But with films running from 1916 to 1999, its quite a list for any film fan to peruse.

Check out the full list of the Hong Kong Film Archive’s 100 Must-See Movies on Twitch

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It’s not all bright lights and big city – Hong Kong to seasoned travelers is as well known for its hiking as it is for it’s designer goods and shopping. CNNGo looks at the city’s best routes for hiking. Personally, we never did enough when we were there, but there’s nothing like a day out on the rocks to teach us urbanites a thing or two about exercise..

Best hiking in Hong Kong

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Hong Kong retailer G.O.D. have once again released their cheeky moon cakes for this years Chinese Mid Autumn Festival. But they’ve added to their line of white lotus seed paste mooncakes with their mini “snowy” mooncakes. See below:

Preorder at the G.O.D. stores in Hong Kong

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