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@JMSCHKU Journalism grad. @UCLSSEES Politics alum. Freelance multimedia producer based in Hong Kong. A yogi aboard Spaceship Earth, here to make a difference.
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Food
Micro-Sized Holiday Meals scales down culturally-rich recipes that are traditionally meant for feasts, so you can still get a taste of the holidays while staying at home. As we bid goodbye to the Year of the Rat, we hope the approaching Ox year will bring us better fortune than the last.
On a sunny afternoon in the Costa del Sol, I had a sudden craving for churros-the tubular doughnuts popular in Spain, usually dipped in chocolate or caramel sauce. Malaga, in the heart of Andalusia, is a bustling port city that attracts millions of visitors every year, because it's convenient gateway to the rest of the region.
Igor spoke more English than our usual Uzbek hosts, though he shared their tendency to overfeed us. It was a fine Monday morning when he took us to his favorite kafesi for a bowl of lagman; he told us that it was the best in the city.
Hong Kong
"Good fortune for you! Good fortune for you!" Surrounded by iconoclasts of the goddess of compassion and god of war, Grandma Leong conjured invisible forces and began to hit sheets of paper with a traditional embroidered shoe, attracting curious and awestruck passersby in the middle of the bustling Wanchai neighbourhood.
"Please hold the handrail," chimed the MTR woman over the PA system in Kennedy Town station. When the new West Island Line opened in December 2014, Lincoln Leong Kwok-Kuen, the MTR Corporation acting chief executive, officially claimed that the line was built as a "community railway" that benefits its residents for convenience.
Culture
A dancer seeks connections with other medium of art
Mrs Tang knows her way around her little street. Situated right underneath the large bridge on Yuantong Jie crossing the Panlong River (盘龙江) and mimicking the shape of Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Gate, albeit much smaller, lies a little treasure trove of a bygone time.
Miscellaneous
Various stories written for the mag
Set in the year 2200, a girl learns about certain dark truths of her world.
