Ordinary Gweilo

It's not big and it's not clever, it's just a Brit in Hong Kong writing (mainly) about Hong Kong

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Month: Aug 2008

  • Saving the environment, driving you crazy

    HSBC are now promoting their electronic statement service to replace the paper version sent through the mail.  Good idea, poor execution. Why does it have to be so difficult?  They send you an email, with a link to a webpage.  You then have to sign in using a different password to the one you have…

  • Closed book

    Sun Gai Gweilo was complaining recently about the price (and availability) of English language books in Hong Kong.  And, yes, I am sure I will be criticized for writing this, but English is an official language of Hong Kong, so you might hope that books would be readily available at a reasonable price.  And they’re…

  • Coronary spaghetti

    Spotted this dish on a menu in a “western-style” Hong Kong restaurant.  It turns out to be Spaghetti Carbonara, so the name is rather appropriate what will all that cream and egg and bacon in the dish.

  • Reach for the mosquito fish

    One of the things I love about The Economist is reading stories that tell me things I didn’t know, and which I didn’t know I didn’t know.  I had never considered that the collapse of the housing market in the USA might increase the spread of the West Nile virus, but apparently it does, as…

  • In praise of…the BBC 5

    In the beginning there was BBC Prime, and the people paid their subscription but found that it was not good.  Then it became BBC Entertainment, and the people wondered where Top Gear had gone and why they were still showing such very old sitcoms.  Then the “BBC 5” was launched, and now we have Top…