The Chengs, with their strong community ties and livelihoods shaped by the seafood industry, are a typical tight-knit Tai O family. Tai O village, on the west coast of Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, is famous for its stilt houses (pang uk) and waterways. Photo: Getty Images While shrimp paste has been a constant source of … Read more
March 3 is Hinamatsuri – Dolls’ Day or Girls’ Day – in Japan. One typical food for this festival is hishi mochi 菱餅, multicoloured rice cakes. While other elements and foods of the festival may be less familiar to outsiders, mochi is known the world over. Mochi is a rice cake made of mochigome, a … Read more
There are differing opinions on cats’ personalities and behaviour: They’re affectionate, they’re aloof, they love you, they hate you. Then there’s the undeniable fact of what they become when left to roam free outside: indiscriminate, stone-cold killers. A new study has found cats roaming free prey upon almost any animal, reptile, insect, and amphibian around the world … Read more
