Pretty sure my best friend and I bullied some boys on this court in 1990. Pretty sure it used to be a playground
Ward Roberts - Courts
HERE YOU GO, HOME
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2013-04-16 0 notes
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2013-03-10 2 notes
Interview with Wong Kar Wai about Chungking Express
I hope Chris Doyle still lives in that flat next to the moving walkway
Is there a better transition in the history of cinema than the one at 3:17 where Faye Wong bumps into Takeshi Kaneshiro then cuts to Tony Leung walking over in slo-mo
I feel about 90s Hong Kong the way Wong Kar Wai feels about 60s Hong Kong (like I want to make a film about a guy who writes a book about a train that takes you back), which is why Chungking Express will always be my all-time number one favourite film. The fact that this interview was conducted in a taxi driving around late 90s HK at night kills me
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2013-02-18 815 notes
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2012-12-17 10 notes
Containers of rice on sale at a rice store in Hong Kong, 1960s. Among the containers of Thai (labeled as Siamese) rice is a solitary container of rice farmed in Yuen Long. Two new towns have since been established in that area, and the agricultural land largely built over. From Robert Garfias.
Read an article recently about people in HK trying to raise awareness about local farmers. Farmland and greenery in the New Territories are in danger of being razed to build housing and shopping malls. Couldn’t find that article, but here’s another one that mentions Yuen Long rice!
It is hard to imagine that, only a few decades ago, rice paddies were a common sight in the New Territories. There was even a special variety of local rice—Yuen Long long-grain rice—which was known for its fragrance and chewy texture. It’s the same old story: as Hong Kong’s economy took off, urbanization kicked in. Yuen Long’s special rice disappeared and our agricultural past was forgotten. But in recent years, a group of green activists have succeeded in reviving rice cultivation in Hong Kong. In fact, rice farming has a dual purpose: In addition to being a source of food for humans, it helps to protect the environment and provides a habitat and food source for endangered animal species.
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2012-12-09 2 notes
Orientalism or something.
Is the Miramar (rebranded as The Mira) still on the same site? Because now it’s surrounded by a lot of shit
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2012-11-29 38 notes
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2012-11-08 715 notes
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2012-11-02 4 notes
Is there an Instagram filter that can make me look like this
Thanks Anna for showing me this amazing list song of 60s HK stars
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2012-10-30 2 notes
Sai Kung, Hong Kong
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2012-10-21 40 notes
Kowloon walled city
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2012-10-05 8 notes
Hong Kee Congee Shop, Tai Hang, Hong Kong
by StrippedPixel on Flickr
Run by three generations of the same family and still the best rice paper rolls anywhere in Hong Kong. Fact!
Kitty! Was craving a baguette, now craving juu cheung fun. This ah bak looks like he knows what he’s doing.
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2012-09-25 13 notes
Street scene, Hong Kong, c. 1968. By George Hofius.
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2012-09-11 19 notes
Two men assembling a life-sized, paper model of a car. Such paper models are intended to be set on fire which, according to traditional beliefs, will transfer the item to deceased relatives in the afterlife. Hong Kong, c. 1950s.
When I was in primary (elementary) school in HK, the school bus went past an area in Hung Hom that’s all funeral parlours and workshops making these models, wreaths, and Chinese coffins. My favourite models were the houses (obviously, given my miniatures fetish). They were three stories, brightly coloured, pinks and purples, and I think they came with lady servants. Or wives?
Now they burn paper iPhone 5s
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馬照跑, 舞照跳。
“The horses will keep running, the dancers will keep dancing.” -Deng Xiaoping, in Cantonese, to Hong Kong before the handover.
Intentional?
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