Hong Kong Designer - Diary

Chinese New Year is approaching and everyone is making a mad dash for sweets, red pants and big tubs of cooking oil?! Anyway back to the subject of Chinese sweets and I’m sad to say whilst Chinese food is some of the best I’ve ever tasted….Chinese really suck at making sweets! They are usually bland […]

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Well the “big day” finally came and went! We had only 2 days to prepare and it actually went pretty smoothly, I guess it’s a factor of having no nerves as we didn’t have time to be stressed or to think about what was going to happen during the […]

Came across a HK based site that sells condoms online. Good idea, although I’m not so sure about some of the product range’s or descriptions.
Musical Condoms (?)
To quote from the page:
Warning:
- This is an audio product, not for contraception.
- Not for a person under 18.
- Some part of the music is very exciting, stop playing […]

I noticed that The Peak Cafe an automatic air conditioner that blasts cool air outside to customers walking. My first thought was what a waste of money and what benefit would it have, would a potential customer walking by think “Which restaurant shall I go to, ah I see Peak Cafe has an outside air conditioner […]

Now this entry isn’t to bash Indians, just really an observation. In my time in HK I’ve heard many Indian’s speak Cantonese fluently and have total respect for these guys. Now I notice that Gweilo’s (are Indian’s considered to be Gweilo’s?) are less involved in speaking the language - preferring their native language. Now why […]