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Haven in a bog...

Friends are complaining about my debut write-up for the South China Mourning Post this week, saying the piece is packed with too much clarity of style -- sound commentary -- moral proses and --...

Started in Cha Xiu Bao • 3 months ago • 0 responses
HKBooks2Eat 2008

I have been wanting to partake in one of these books2eat/edible book festivals for ages, so it's absolutely delightful to know that we're accepting the mantle of edible readership on our own turf...

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The best noodles in HK you've never heard of - Part I

You're so vain: possibly the sweetest pork trotters in HK

Started in Cha Xiu Bao • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Objects on Your Plate May Be Smaller Than They Appear

"The first thing I tell them is to round up every price that ends with 95 cents to 99 cents. You've got an item $10.95, raise it to $10.99. If it's $7.75, make it $7.79. All the chains have done...

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The Japs are officially sicker than I am...

Fatty, marbled wagyu + iPod case= Some Japs to shabu shabu now!

Started in Cha Xiu Bao • 3 months ago • 0 responses
The Old Man and the Tea

The old man, ah Pak, is a hunchback selling shanjisheng and steamed egg puddings close to Rotunda de Carlos da Maia (aka "three lamps"). Shanjisheng, in case you don't know, is a popular herbal tea...

Started in Cha Xiu Bao • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Newer, sleeker, proverbial Abs for all sweet lovers...

Look hun, the six pack Abs of mine! Sexy, yo?! And the new pacemaker, the green tea mochi... not unlike the tokamak reactor used by the Iron Man for the same level of energy boost, hahah! Lovely...

Started in Cha Xiu Bao • 3 months ago • 0 responses
A dim sum eye candy moment

"Location, location, location." The mantra to resound to whenever picking the sweetest spot to open a store is in question. Taking full advertence, Eighteen Brook is a no brainer if you ever find...

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Standardized menu translation aims for handy, ends up somehow creepy

It's here, finally. Not an update for this slackening blog, but the official, 170 pages standardized menu translation churned out by the Beijing municipal government's foreign affair office and the...

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You Don't Mess with the Yuen-Longs

It goes without saying that Yuen Long remains one of the most happening dining spots in Hong Kong... "News in Brief The 60-year-old man and his son, 28, were attacked with a knife during a dispute...

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