Month: Apr 2005
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I have previously mentioned the way that SHKP, Swire and other developers have started to be much more, er, proactive in dealing with their retail tenants. Rents are going up and in some cases retailers are being forced to move (the most famous example being Swire’s decision not to offer M&S a new lease for…
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A glass of hot water? When I came to Hong Kong one of the things I found a little odd was that people drank hot water. I had been used to drinking cold water, or hot tea or coffee, but not hot water. When I first tried it I wasn’t convinced that it was a…
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TVB has recently finished showing the first series of Channel Four’s "You are What you eat". The concept behind the show is that "leading nutritionist" Gillian McKeith advises an individual or family on adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle. It’s all good knockabout stuff – fat people meet a stern Barbara Woodhouse type who bullies…
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Stinky tofu or a nice ripe French cheese (brie or camembert for example). Opinions seem to vary on this one…
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Mark Thatcher was once described as "a sort of Harrovian Arthur Daley with a famous mum", and until recently he was famous mainly for getting lost for six days in in the Sahara desert. He is one of those mysterious people who appears not to be very bright, and has many failed business ventures to…
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I notice that Cha Xiu Bao was mentioned on the food pages of this week’s Sunday Morning Post magazine. Yes, that’s the new-improved-but-somehow-exactly-the-same-as-before Sunday magazine. I’d have to agree with Susan Jung that it’s a good blog, and it’s worth a look if you are interested in food (in Hong Kong and elsewhere).
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There was a letter in yesterday’s paper entitled "Insensitive Immigration", from a lady whose husband had died suddenly. As he was the employer of their domestic helper she contacted the Immigration Department to ask them what she should do: I was told that the helper was to report to immigration…She returned with a notice to…
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"others who don’t blog often like Fumier, Ordinary Gweilo.." [a comment from HKMacs on Simon World] Well, maybe. I seem to have contracted the dreaded lurgy that the aforesaid Fumier and Dr Shaky have also been suffering from. The first day I felt a bit under the weather, but the second, third and fourth days…
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