TRIP + PLATE + 365 days
Tsim Sha Tsui moves at a pace that requires occasional interruption. The harbor promenade, Nathan Road, the MTR — all are efficient and purposeful in the way Hong Kong is efficient and purposeful. Kowloon Park is the interruption: a large public park occupying a significant block of land between Nathan Road and Austin Road that … Read more
Most Hong Kong itineraries are built around the harbor view, the Peak, and the temple circuit. The Mong Kok Flower Market and Bird Garden belong to a different category — experiences that have nothing to do with the tourist circuit and everything to do with how the city actually lives. I visited on the afternoon … Read more
There are things you think you know about Hong Kong before you visit, and Victoria Peak at night is one of them. The photographs are everywhere — the illuminated skyline spread below, the harbor reflecting the tower lights, the density of the city visible from above in a way that makes it look almost unreal. … Read more
There are places in Hong Kong that look exactly like their photographs, and places that don’t. The Monster Building Hong Kong is emphatically the latter — not because the photographs are dishonest, but because the scale of what you see when you walk into the inner courtyard and look up simply doesn’t translate to a … Read more
Planning your first trip to Hong Kong and not sure where to start? I spent 4 days there in January and here’s the honest truth: nothing quite prepares you for the scale of it. Towers packed so tightly together they almost touch, streets buzzing with millions of people — and yet the whole city runs … Read more