Tag: Travel
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Causeway Bay
iTunes’ party shuffle is playing: Feels like home – Bonnie Raitt – Michael: Music from the Motion Picture I feel like the guy in Lost in Translation. I feel like the guy in The Notebook. I feel like the guy in In The Mood For Love. I feel like the guy in 2046. There was…
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Wish you were here
Taipa Island, Macau
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Eating to death in Macau
There are few things for a tourist to do in Macau. These are gambling, whoring, eating and walking around looking at Portuguese colonial ruins. There wasn’t much time in my day trip from Hongkers, so I ate and walked around looking at Portuguese colonial ruins. And they are really old ruins too, seeing as the…
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Paddling the seven seas
I tell people one of my favourite pastimes is kayaking, but I hardly ever get to kayak these days. Back when, then and all that time ago, I didn’t kayak all that often either. So I suppose kayaking is a favourite in the sense that I remember liking it a lot when I did do…
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Short the distance: Hainan, Part One
There is Hainanese Chicken Rice on Hainan Island [æµ·å—å²›]. Only it’s mostly crappy and the recipe’s most likely garnered from what Singaporean and Malaysian tourists tell the Hainan Islanders. The same goes for Hainanese coffee, Hainanese kaya and Hainanese mutton soup. (The original Hainanese Chicken Rice is actually a steamed/boiled chicken dish from the city…