Hong Kong Collectors: Chris Hall’s Amazing Chinese Textiles
After spending decades collecting historic Chinese textiles, Chris Hall is gradually donating everything to the Hong Kong Palace Museum...
Annemarie Evans
Hong Kong Collectors: Shun Chi-ming and the Local Weather
The former Hong Kong Observatory director has amassed an impressive collection of objects related to the city’s famous weather station...
Hong Kong collector: Discover the Remarkable Artistry of Chinese Snuff Bottles
Originally used for powdered tobacco, intricately decorated snuff bottles became a form of art in themselves...
How 90-Year-Old Norman de Brackinghe Recently Became an Ink Artist
A longtime Hong Kong artist brings together abstract photography with his latest passion, ink art ...
Cha Guo Stories, Part V: Community Spirit in a Changing Place
As Kwu Tung prepares for the Northern Metropolis, two local woman reminisce...
Cha Guo Stories, Part IV: The Dragon Fruit Farm
An organic farm in Kwu Tung lives in harmony with the seasons, but change is on the horizon...
Hong Kong Collectors: 120 Years of Trams
As Hong Kong Tramways celebrates its 120th anniversary, we meet the collectors who are interested in everything tram-related...
Frances Yip is Back Below the Lion Rock
Cantopop legend Francis Yip Lai-yee has returned to Hong Kong for a concert celebrating her 55 years in show business...
Hong Kong Collectors: The Bottle Pickers
Discarded glass bottles reveal some fascinating details about life in years gone by...
Hong Kong Collectors: It Started With a (VW) Bug
Motoring enthusiast Andrew Ng has built an impressive collection of objects related to driving in Hong Kong...
What to Eat This Dongzhi, the Winter Solstice Festival
Chinese families gather for a feast on winter solstice, which was once considered as important — or perhaps moreso — than lunar new year...
Inside Wah Lok Café, a Sheung Wan Institution Since the 1940s
A quintessential Hong Kong-style cha chaan teng embodies the heart and soul of its community...
More Than Just Recipes: A New Cookbook Reveals Grandma and Grandpa’s Lives
A new cookbook gathers oral histories and delicious recipes from grandmothers and grandfathers in Hong Kong...
Giovanni Valenti, Hong Kong Concierge Extraordinaire
For 38 years, Mandarin Oriental concierge Giovanni Valenti was a friend, confidante and impeccable host to generations of Hongkongers and foreign visitors alike...
Inside the Wattis Collection: Hong Kong’s First Governor
Henry Pottinger the man who turned Hong Kong into a colony...
Inside the Wattis Collection: Vintage Hong Kong Travel Guides
Travel guides and advertisements on display at Wattis Fine Art are a window into Hong Kong’s postwar blossoming]...
Inside the Wattis Collection: A Famous Junk and a Mysterious Mandarin
A pair of lithographs at Wattis Fine Arts depicts the Keying, a Chinese junk that became a phenomenon in Victorian London, and a man who became famous alongside i...
Farewell to a Life in Music: DJ Ray Cordeiro’s Extraordinary 70-Year-Career
Hong Kong's most beloved English-language DJ finally calls it quits after the world's longest career in radio. ...
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part III: New Year Traditions and Cuisine
Hakka cuisine is rooted in hardship, but the lunar new year is a chance to pull out all the stops....
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part II: Hats and Songs
There's a link between the distinctive hats worn by Hakka women and the songs they sing in the fields – one a young enthusiast is trying to keep alive....
Keeping Hakka Culture Alive, Part I: The Story of Hong Kong’s Mountain Pioneers
Hakka people are an integral part of Hong Kong history and heritage, but their culture and language is at risk of being lost. ...
