Anyone hoping to do business in Hong Kong would be well advised to read up on business etiquette. Even in the simple act of exchanging business cards there are ...
The Dragon Boat Festival (or Tuen Ng in Cantonese) occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar and is a public holiday in Hong Kong. It c...
On Foot in Hong Kong Hong Kong has very low crime rates and is considered a safe city, however when walking the steep and narrow Hong Kong streets you should pa...
After spending a few years living through London’s long cold dark winters and lackluster summers it was quite a change to move to hot and steamy Hong Kong. We ...
The Ching Ming Festival is an annual event to honour ones ancestors at their grave sites. Ching Ming translates to ‘clean and bright’ and the festival is also k...
Chinese New Year (CNY) also known as Lunar New Year as it is timed according to the lunar calendar, runs from Chinese New Year’s Eve until the 15th day of the n...
I arrived in Hong Kong thinking that I didn’t know a word of the local language – Cantonese. However with English being peppered with loanwords it turns out the...
No visit to Hong Kong would be complete without trying some of the unique local food and drink such as egg waffles, ying-yang (tea-coffee) and dong lai cha (col...
The history of the mid-Autumn festival can be traced back to the ancient Chinese text Li-Ji which dictates that the Chinese Emperor should offer sacrifices to t...
