old Hong Kong

Opinion | On a slow boat to China: when coastal shipping, not direct flights, connected Hong Kong to mainland China and Southeast Asia

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Swift, efficient transport connections between Hong Kong’s various hinterlands are now taken for granted; air travel and high-speed railway networks link locations along the China coast – including both sides of the Taiwan Strait. But until the widespread advent of direct air services from Southeast Asia throughout the 1980s, relatively small-scale passenger vessel services enabled … Read more

The leather goods shop ‘selling a memory’ with accessories inspired by Hong Kong icons

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Kwok’s wife, Violet, is there as well. She works in the hospitality industry but occasionally helps out at the studio which, on a recent afternoon in November, is bathed in warm sunlight. The workspace at Nardos Vintage, a shop selling handmade leather items inspired by Hong Kong icons. Photo: Sun Yeung Stealing the show in … Read more

The Sydney cafe where memories of old Hong Kong live on through milk tea, loud Cantopop, and ‘a bit of education’ about Cantonese food

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Chan and Cheung, who’ve known each other since primary school, have lived in Sydney twice – first when Chan’s family immigrated here in 1994 and Cheung followed to study in the city, and then when they moved back in 2015 after a decade in Hong Kong. Husband-and-wife Jessica Chan Tin-wai and Kevin Cheung Chun-kwok are … Read more