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
Temple Street arrives in layers. The first thing you notice is the smell — grilled meats and incense mixing in the narrow lanes before you’ve seen a single stall. Then the noise — vendors calling, Cantonese opera from somewhere deeper in the market, the general compression of sound that a covered street market at full … Read more
If you’re visiting Hong Kong for the first time and wondering where to base yourself, the answer for most people is Tsim Sha Tsui. I stayed here for the first two nights of my January trip — at the YMCA Salisbury Hotel, steps from the harbor — and the neighborhood delivered everything a first-time visitor … Read more