From Lotusland to Hong Kong
Blog URL http://joanneblog.wordpress.com
Located Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
A Vancouver journalist, Joanne Blain, explores the strange world of Hong Kong, where she is working for the summer at the International Herald Tribune newspaper
Latest Blog Posts
- Yes, Elvis, she has left the building on Oct 3, 2009 in Uncategorized
Who better to see me off from Hong Kong than the Asian Elvis himself? Aside from Suzie Wong, I can’t think of anyone better suited to the task. So long, Hong Kong. My summer with you has been sweaty as hell, but swell.
- Yes, Elvis, I have left the building on Oct 3, 2009 in Uncategorized
Who better to see me off from Hong Kong than the Asian Elvis himself? Aside from Suzie Wong, I can’t think of anyone better suited to the task. So long, Hong Kong. My summer with you has been sweaty as hell, but swell.
- Speaking of last days … on Oct 2, 2009 in Hong Kong Uncategorized
As you may recall if you’ve been following my blog since day one (and for those of you who haven’t, what’s the matter with you?), I started my time in Hong Kong in a tiny, seedy hotel room at the Ibis North Point, which was close to...
- One day in Macau, may be my last on Sep 22, 2009 in Hong Kong casinos macau
Hope you all got the cool 10 cc reference in the header … if not, whatever. Popped over to Macau for the day, mostly so I could say I did. But I’m not sure it was worth the hour-long ferry ride there and back, plus the immigration lineu...
- Full moon in Hong Kong on Sep 19, 2009 in Hong Kong
Chinese cuisine isn’t big on desserts, as you probably know, but one treat that is everywhere right now is the mooncake, a not-too-sweet pastry filled with a lotus seed paste and custard of different colours and flavors, sometimes made from...
- When Koppu blew through on Sep 14, 2009 in Hong Kong Koppu tropical storm typhoon
Finally, a real typhoon to kick up some action. Okay, so it’s just Severe Tropical Storm Koppu at the moment, but it’s threatening to grow into a full-blown typhoon (sorry) within the next few hours. I was at work when the Level 8 warni...
- A park with a history on Sep 12, 2009 in Hong Kong
This is the Kowloon Walled City Park, a boring name for a place with an incredible history. It was a Chinese military garrison that became a slum tenement after the Second World War, eventually housing more than 30,000 people with no running water or...
