Month: January 2012
Hong Kong cuisines in miniatures
My cousin J is the proud owner of these three sets of miniatures of Hong Kong cuisines. Since I have been posting pictures of real food here for a long time (for example, 2M* dim sum lunch), how about some plastic food for a change. Dim sum, first. They are all placed in a display…
Winter comfort: Hotpot / Fondue
There is nothing more inviting in a frigid winter or a lunar new year feast than a hotpot 火鍋 ? Known also as a steamboat as my Malaysian or Singaporean friends might call it or a fondue locally. While in the US, we had one made in Japan and the pot consisted of two compartments. Soups…
Happy Chinese New Year of the Dragon 2012
Wishing all viewers a prosperous year of the Dragon. 恭喜發財 身體健康 財源廣進 心想事成 Here are some pictures we took last year when we spent Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and Macau (where firecrackers are legal). A highlight of the visit during Lunar New Year was the flower market in Victoria Park (福 posters below)…
Airport hotels
In December last year (2011), I had two very short business trips each involving a stay at an airport hotel – here is the scenery or the lack thereof at my hotels. The first was in Amsterdam and our conference host chose this Park Plaza as a venue. Although it is supposed to be an…