Posts Tagged ‘Traditional’

Echoes of Old China: Traditional Shops in Contemporary Hong Kong

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Product Description
This appealing book invites readers to savour the handful of old Chinese shops that still remain in Hong Kong in the 1990s, echoing old China, its beliefs and traditions. In these shops there is still time to relish the brushstrokes of fine calligraphy, to exchange niceties over a cup of fragrant tea, and to savour a lingering sense of formality and unhurried gentility. Two long-serving Hong Kong photographers journeyed from teahouse to medicine shop to alley … More >>

Echoes of Old China: Traditional Shops in Contemporary Hong Kong

Travel Hong Kong: Experience a Traditional ‘Wet Market’

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010


The first in our series of Hong Kong highlights. Experience a traditional ‘wet market’. **Warning** This is a live food market. Animal lovers, and the overly squeamish, are urged to view with caution.