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JOURNEY’S END<br />

HONG KONG EDITION<br />

July, 2017<br />

Hong Kong’s<br />

Food Scene<br />

Page 15<br />

Arts & Culture<br />

Page 30<br />

Donnie Yen<br />

Interview<br />

Page 46<br />

Hong Kong<br />

Hot Spots<br />

Page 24<br />

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Know Your Seflie.<br />

Know Your Surroundings.<br />

A picture may be worth a<br />

thousand words.<br />

But is it worth your life?


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Face!<br />

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#mycheetosFace<br />

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©2016


CONTENTS<br />

Letter From Editor 06<br />

Contributors<br />

08<br />

Entertainment<br />

12<br />

Best Tourist Spots<br />

26<br />

Cuisine<br />

34<br />

Reviews<br />

Letters<br />

48<br />

62<br />

Photo Source: Pexels.com<br />

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Letter From The Editor<br />

By: livinginhongkong.org<br />

Hong Kong is a vibrant, exciting city—a<br />

stark contrast between Asian and Western<br />

cultures, yet both cultures also combine<br />

to make the city the dynamic place it is.<br />

The city is frequently described as a place<br />

where “East meets West”, reflecting the<br />

local culture’s mix of Chinese roots with<br />

influences from its time managed by the<br />

British. Somehow, Hong Kong manages to<br />

balance traditional Chinese practices with a<br />

fast paced, modern lifestyle.<br />

Hong Kong is ranked as the 3rd most<br />

expensive city in Asia after Tokyo and Seoul<br />

with the costs of accommodation, food and<br />

schooling (if you have children) being the<br />

three primary items of expenditure<br />

Accommodation costs are likely to be the<br />

largest outgoing; imported foods are also<br />

relatively expensive, then there is schooling.<br />

Many people prefer to do without a car as<br />

the public transport system is so efficient and<br />

effective yet, if you do decide to buy a car, the<br />

costs of parking alone (both at home and in the<br />

office), may be as much as car repayments in<br />

some other countries.<br />

As one of the world’s leading international<br />

financial centres, most of the world’s largest or<br />

most well known (and some not so well known)<br />

banks (Citibank, Barclays, Deutsche Bank) have<br />

a presence in the city. Hong Kong has a major<br />

capitalist service economy characterised by low<br />

taxation and free trade, and the Hong Kong<br />

dollar is in the top 10 of the world’s most traded<br />

currencies.<br />

Hong Kong is a recognised global centre of trade,<br />

and has one of the largest, busiest container ports<br />

in the world.<br />

The per capita income is one of the highest in<br />

the world and the public transport travelling rate<br />

exceeds 90 percent, the highest in the world. In<br />

various other aspects of life in the city, such as its<br />

economic and financial freedom.<br />

CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER Norman Pearlstine<br />

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Joseph Ripp<br />

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, PEOPLE & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Jess Cagle<br />

EDITOR IN CHIEF Henry Goldblatt<br />

DIGITAL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR (PEOPLE & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY)<br />

Will Lee<br />

EXECUTIVE EDITORS Meeta Agrawal, Sean Smith, Louis Vogel<br />

DESIGN DIRECTOR Tim Leong<br />

PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR Lisa Berman<br />

EDITORS AT LARGE Mark Harris, Dalton Ross<br />

DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION Eric Goeres<br />

DEPUTY DESIGN DIRECTOR Keir Novesky, ART DIRECTOR, EW.COM<br />

Martin Schwartz,<br />

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Dragos Lemnei, MANAGING ART DIRECTOR<br />

Jennie Chang<br />

MANAGING ART DIRECTOR, TABLET Jen Kovach, SENIOR ASSOCI-<br />

ATE ART DIRECTORS Dennis Huynh, Aaron Morales<br />

SENIOR DESIGNER Emem Offong , DESIGNER Ruby Parra, DESIGN/<br />

PHOTO ASSISTANT Alison Wild<br />

ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR, EW.COM Neil Janowitz<br />

FEATURES EDITOR Jason Sheeler<br />

SENIOR WEST COAST EDITOR Danielle Nussbaum<br />

SENIOR EDITORS Leah Greenblatt, Tina Jordan, Bill Keith, Adam<br />

Markovitz, Rachel Orvino, Stephanie Schomer, Missy Schwartz<br />

WEST COAST SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR Lisa Simpson Briel<br />

TV NEWS EDITOR, EW.COM James Hibberd<br />

CRITICS Jeff Jensen, Melissa Maerz, Chris Nashawaty<br />

WRITER AT LARGE Chris Lee<br />

SENIOR WRITERS Natalie Abrams, Kyle Anderson, Anthony<br />

Breznican, Clark Collis, Darren Franich, Jeff Labrecque, Dan<br />

Snierson, Nicole Sperling, Tim Stack, Keith Staskiewicz, Sara<br />

Vilkomerson<br />

NEWS EDITOR, EW.COM Ashley Fetters<br />

ADVERTISING<br />

STAFF EDITORS Emily Blake, Hillary Busis, Stephan Lee,<br />

Amy Wilkinson, MUSIC NEWS EDITOR, EW.COM Miles<br />

Raymer,<br />

TV RECAP EDITOR, EW.COM Dalene Rovenstine, STAFF<br />

WRITERS Ray Rahman, Esther Zuckerman<br />

CORRESPONDENTS Samantha Highfill, Joe McGovern,<br />

Marc Snetiker, Kevin P. Sullivan, Nina Terrero<br />

ASSISTANT EDITOR Kat Ward<br />

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Isabella Biedenharn, C. Molly<br />

Smith<br />

DESIGN<br />

DEPUTY DESIGN DIRECTOR Keir Novesky, ART DIREC-<br />

TOR, EW.COM Martin Schwartz,<br />

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR Dragos Lemnei, MANAGING<br />

ART DIRECTOR Jennie Chang<br />

MANAGING ART DIRECTOR, TABLET Jen Kovach,<br />

SENIOR ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTORS Dennis Huynh,<br />

Aaron Morales<br />

SENIOR DESIGNER Emem Offong , DESIGNER Ruby<br />

Parra, DESIGN/PHOTO ASSISTANT Alison Wild<br />

PHOTOGRAPHY<br />

MANAGING PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR Sarah<br />

Czeladnicki, DEPUTY PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR,<br />

WEST COAST Richard Maltz<br />

PHOTO EDITOR Michele Romero, PHOTO EDITOR,<br />

EW.COM Jef Castro,SENIOR ASSOCIATE PHOTO<br />

EDITORS Ahmed Fakhr, Natalie Gialluca<br />

ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR Elena Noel Santos<br />

RESEARCH<br />

CHIEF OF REPORTERS Annabel Bentley, DEPUTY<br />

CHIEF OF REPORTERS Jennifer Boeth<br />

SENIOR REPORTER Jason Clark, REPORTER Maya<br />

Stanton<br />

SENIOR EDITOR Chris Rackliffe, ASSISTANT<br />

EDITOR Ben Boskovicht<br />

ASSISTANT EDITOR Kat Ward<br />

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Isabella Biedenharn, C.<br />

Molly Smith<br />

5 Journey’s End - HONG KONG EDITION - June 2017 Photo Source: Pexels.com


new flavor<br />

e v e n h o t t e r!<br />

yeah.<br />

,<br />

it s like that.


CONTRIBUTORS<br />

Billy Tang<br />

Contributing<br />

Writer<br />

Bhikkhu literally<br />

means “beggar”<br />

or “one who<br />

lives by alms”.<br />

The historical<br />

Buddha, Prince<br />

Siddhartha,<br />

having<br />

abandoned a life<br />

of pleasure and<br />

status, lived as an<br />

alms mendicant<br />

as part of his<br />

śramaa lifestyle.<br />

Billy Tong<br />

Graphic Artist<br />

Bhikkhu literally<br />

means “beggar”<br />

or “one who<br />

lives by alms”.<br />

The historical<br />

Buddha, Prince<br />

Siddhartha,<br />

having<br />

abandoned a life<br />

of pleasure and<br />

status, lived as an<br />

alms mendicant<br />

as part of his<br />

śramaa lifestyle.<br />

Bobby Tang<br />

Senior<br />

Contributing<br />

Writer<br />

Bhikkhu literally<br />

means “beggar”<br />

or “one who<br />

lives by alms”.<br />

The historical<br />

Buddha, Prince<br />

Siddhartha,<br />

having<br />

abandoned a life<br />

of pleasure and<br />

status, lived as an<br />

alms mendicant<br />

as part of his<br />

śramaa lifestyle.<br />

Bobby Tong<br />

Contributing<br />

Photographer<br />

Bhikkhu literally<br />

means “beggar”<br />

or “one who<br />

lives by alms”.<br />

The historical<br />

Buddha, Prince<br />

Siddhartha,<br />

having<br />

abandoned a life<br />

of pleasure and<br />

status, lived as an<br />

alms mendicant<br />

as part of his<br />

śramaa lifestyle.<br />

Ben & Tad Tong<br />

Contributing Writers<br />

Bhikkhu literally means<br />

“beggar” or “one who lives<br />

by alms”.The historical<br />

Buddha, Prince Siddhartha,<br />

having abandoned a life of<br />

pleasure and status, lived<br />

as an alms mendicant as<br />

part of his śramaa lifestyle.<br />

In the Dhammapada<br />

commentary of<br />

Buddhaghosa, a bhikkhu is<br />

defined as “the person who<br />

sees danger (in samsara<br />

or cycle of rebirth)” (Pāli:<br />

Bhaya ikkhatīti: bhikkhu).<br />

Photos Source: Wikipedia.com<br />

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ENTERTAINMENT<br />

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ENTERTAINMENT<br />

Meet<br />

Donnie Yen<br />

D<br />

onnie Yen was born in Guangzhou,<br />

China. His mother, Bow-sim Mark, was<br />

a kung fu master and his father, Kylster<br />

Yen, a newspaper editor and amateur musician.<br />

When Donnie was just two years old,<br />

the family moved to Hong Kong and then,<br />

when he was 11, to Boston, Massachusetts.<br />

There, Master Bow-sim Mark became a<br />

pioneer for Chinese martial arts in America,<br />

and it was only natural that her only<br />

son was trained from early childhood in<br />

the same skills. At the same time, Donnie<br />

was influenced by his parents’ love of music<br />

and reached a high level of proficiency<br />

as a pianist. All these interests would have<br />

a manifest influence on Yen’s later life.<br />

Early Life<br />

Donnie Yen was born in Guangzhou,<br />

China. His mother, Bow-sim Mark, was a<br />

kung fu master and his father, Kylster Yen,<br />

a newspaper editor and amateur musician.<br />

When Donnie was just two years old,<br />

the family moved to Hong Kong and then,<br />

when he was 11, to Boston, Massachusetts.<br />

There, Master Bow-sim Mark became a pioneer<br />

for Chinese martial arts in America, and it<br />

was only natural that her only son was trained<br />

from early childhood in the same skills. At the<br />

same time, Donnie was influenced by his parents’<br />

love of music and reached a high level<br />

of proficiency as a pianist. All these interests<br />

would have a manifest influence on Yen’s later<br />

life. In his teens, Donnie defined his own persona<br />

by rebelling against his ptarents edicts. Beyond<br />

the limitations of his mother’s school, Yen<br />

began training in various different fighting arts,<br />

including Japanese karate, Korean taekwondo<br />

and western boxing. Donnie also took up hiphop<br />

and break-dancing. At the same time, he<br />

began spending his nights in Boston’s notorious<br />

Combat Zone. Given that he was by now<br />

a serious practitioner of modern Wu Shu, his<br />

parents decided to send him to Beijing to train at<br />

the Chinese capital’s famed Wu Shu academy.<br />

It was when Yen returned to Hong Kong en<br />

route back to Boston that he met the famed<br />

martial arts movie director Yuen Wooping.<br />

At the same time, he<br />

began spending his nights in<br />

Boston’s notorious C Zone.<br />

Acting Career<br />

Donnie Yen exploded<br />

onto the Hong Kong<br />

movie scene when<br />

he was cast in<br />

the lead role of<br />

director Yuen<br />

Woo-ping’s<br />

‘Drunken Tai<br />

Chi’. His<br />

debut<br />

film<br />

immediately<br />

established<br />

him as a<br />

viable leading<br />

man, and<br />

Yen has remained a<br />

major figure in Chinese<br />

action cinema to this day.<br />

Yen skills as a street dancer<br />

were to the fore in his second<br />

starring role, ‘Mismatched<br />

Couples’, in which he showed<br />

off his breakdance moves, as<br />

well as his general athleticism.<br />

This slapstick romantic comedy<br />

was produced by Hong<br />

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His debut film<br />

immediately<br />

established<br />

him as a viable<br />

leading man.<br />

Kong’s prestigious Cinema City studio.<br />

Donnie was subsequently signed by the<br />

newly formed D&B Films, and cast in the<br />

hit cop actioner ‘Tiger Cage’. In this movie,<br />

and his follow-up features for the company<br />

(‘In the Line of Duty 4’, ‘Tiger Cage<br />

2’), Yen showed off his own<br />

unique form of contemporary<br />

screen combat, a form that<br />

included elements of rapid<br />

fire kicking, Western boxing<br />

and grappling moves.<br />

Having established a<br />

worldwide fan base, Yen<br />

moved on to star in a<br />

string of independent<br />

Asian action features<br />

before director<br />

Tsui Hark tapped<br />

him to co-star in<br />

‘Once Upon A<br />

Time In China<br />

2’. The film’s<br />

two action<br />

highlights<br />

saw Donnie’s<br />

character duel<br />

the legendary<br />

martial arts master<br />

Wong Fei-hung,<br />

played by his old friend<br />

Jet Li. The film brought Yen<br />

his first real attention as a thespian<br />

and he was nominated in the<br />

Best Supporting Actor category at<br />

that year’s Hong Kong Film Awards.<br />

Tsui Hark went on to produce a<br />

remake of King Hu’s classic ‘New<br />

Dragon Inn’, which provided another<br />

showcase role for Donnie as the<br />

film’s apparently invincible villain.<br />

Donnie was reunited with director Yuen<br />

Woo-ping for ‘Iron Monkey’, a film which<br />

brought Yen’s acting and action skills both<br />

into focus. In ‘Iron Monkey’, Yen played<br />

the father of Wong Fei-hung, and its<br />

success prefigured that which he would<br />

later enjoy as another pugilistic patriarch<br />

in ‘Ip Man’. Donnie collaborated with<br />

Yuen on the action for the film, designing<br />

a new on-screen interpretation of Wong<br />

Fei-hung’s classic ‘Shadowless Kick’.<br />

‘Iron Monkey’ was all the more remarkable<br />

in that, years after its Asian release,<br />

it was acquired by the American studio<br />

Miramax, re-cut, re-scored and given a<br />

wide release in US theatres. After premieres<br />

in New York and Los Angeles,<br />

the film enjoyed great acclaim from<br />

the American critics, and won a prize<br />

at that year’s Taurus Awards, an event<br />

held to celebrate action in cinema.<br />

After working on a number of independent<br />

features, Yen went on to enjoy huge<br />

success on the small screen when he accepted<br />

a lucrative offer from Hong Kong’s<br />

ATV to film a series based on the Bruce<br />

Lee classic ‘Fist of Fury’. The show was the<br />

top-rated action drama show around the<br />

region, and was subsequently re-edited<br />

for international distribution on video.<br />

Donnie went on to make his directorial<br />

debut with ‘Legend of the Wolf’, a stylish<br />

period actioner that even attracted the<br />

attention of legendary American film-maker<br />

Francis C oppola.As director, Donnie<br />

followed ‘Legend of the Wolf’ with a very<br />

different venture, ‘Ballistic Kiss’, an urban<br />

thriller about a conflicted assassin.<br />

Donnie’s body of work had by then<br />

attracted the attention of Hollywood,<br />

and Yen was approached to choreograph<br />

the action for the mainstream franchise<br />

films ‘Highlander: Endgame’ and ‘Blade<br />

2’. After a period where he was based<br />

in Los Angeles, Donnie returned East<br />

by way of the West when Jackie Chan<br />

requested that Yen play his nemesis in<br />

the hit ‘Shanghai Knights’, a shoot that<br />

took the star from Prague to London.<br />

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new flavor<br />

e v e n h o t t e r!<br />

yeah.<br />

,<br />

it s like that.


Know Your Selfie.<br />

Know Your Surroundings.<br />

A picture may be worth<br />

a thousand words,<br />

but it should never be your last.


CUSINE<br />

FOOD<br />

SHUI<br />

THE ART OF FOOD IN HONG KONG<br />

H<br />

ong Kong cuisine is mainly influenced by Cantonese cuisine, British Cuisine,<br />

other Western Cuisines, non-Cantonese Chinese cuisine (especially Teochew,<br />

and Hakka, Hokkien and the Jiangsu & Zhejiang), Japan, and Southeast Asia,<br />

due to Hong Kong’s past as a British colony and long history of being an<br />

international port of commerce. From the roadside stalls to the most upscale<br />

restaurants, Hong Kong provides an unlimited variety of food in every class.<br />

Complex combinations and international gourmet expertise have given Hong<br />

Kong the reputable labels of “Gourmet Paradise” and “World’s Fair of Food”<br />

Most restaurant serving sizes are considerably small by international<br />

standards, especially in comparison to most Western nations like the United<br />

States or Canada. The main course is usually accompanied by a generous<br />

portion of carbohydrates such as rice or mein (noodles). People generally eat<br />

5 times a day. Dinner is often accompanied with dessert. Snack time also fits<br />

anywhere in between meals.<br />

As Hong Kong is Cantonese in origin and most Hong Kong Chinese are<br />

immigrants or descendants of immigrants from Cantonese-speaking parts of<br />

China, the food is a variant of Cantonese cuisine – almost all homecooking and<br />

much of the dine-out fares, from restaurant to bakery, are Cantonese or heavily<br />

Cantonese-influenced. Most of the celebrated food in Hong Kong such as the wife<br />

cake, roast duck, dim sum, herbal tea, shark’s fin and abalone cooking, poached<br />

chicken, and the mooncake, and others, originated in Guangzhou, and dai pai dong was<br />

an institution adopted from the southern Chinese city. As in the parent cuisine, the Hong<br />

Kong Cantonese cuisine accepts a wide variety of ingredients, a lighted seasoned taste.<br />

Unlike Guangzhou, the uninterrupted contacts Hong Kong has with the West has made it more<br />

susceptible to Western influences, and has produced favourites such as egg tarts and Hong<br />

Kong-style milk tea.<br />

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CUISINE<br />

ENDLESS CHOICES<br />

WHERE TASTE MEETS TRADITION<br />

Chinese cuisine is an important part of Chinese<br />

culture, which includes cuisine originating<br />

from the diverse regions of China, as well as<br />

from Chinese people in other parts of the world.<br />

Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical<br />

power of the country, Chinese cuisine has<br />

influenced many other cuisines in Asia, with<br />

modifications made to cater to local palates.<br />

The preference for seasoning and cooking techniques<br />

of Chinese provinces depend on differences<br />

in historical background and ethnic groups. Geographic<br />

features including mountains, rivers, forests<br />

and deserts also have a strong effect on the local<br />

available ingredients, considering climate of China<br />

varies from tropical in the south to subarctic in<br />

the northeast. Imperial, royal and noble preference<br />

also plays a role in the change of Chinese cuisines.<br />

Because of imperial expansion and trading, ingredients<br />

and cooking techniques from other cultures<br />

are integrated into Chinese cuisines over time.<br />

The most praised “Four Major Cuisines” are<br />

Chuan, Lu, Yue and Huaiyang, representing<br />

West, North, South and East China cuisine correspondingly.<br />

Modern “Eight Cuisines” of China<br />

are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu,<br />

Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang cuisines.<br />

Color, smell and taste are the three traditional<br />

aspects used to describe Chinese food, as well<br />

as the meaning,<br />

shape and nutrition<br />

of the food. Cooking<br />

should be appraised<br />

from ingredients used,<br />

cuttings, cooking time and seasoning.<br />

It is considered inappropriate to use knives<br />

on the dining table. Chopsticks are the main<br />

eating utensils for Chinese food, which<br />

can be used to cut and pick up food.<br />

Regional cuisines<br />

A number of different styles contribute to Chinese<br />

cuisine but perhaps the best known and most<br />

influential are Cantonese cuisine, Shandong cuisine,<br />

Jiangsu cuisine (specifically Huaiyang cuisine)<br />

and Sichuan cuisine. These styles are distinctive<br />

from one another due to factors such as availability<br />

of resources, climate, geography, history,<br />

cooking techniques and lifestyle. One style may<br />

favour the use of garlic and shallots over chili and<br />

spices, while another may favour preparing seafood<br />

over other meats and fowl. Jiangsu cuisine<br />

favours cooking techniques such as braising and<br />

stewing, while Sichuan cuisine employs baking.<br />

Based on the raw materials and ingredients<br />

used, the method of preparation and cultural differences,<br />

a variety of foods with different flavors<br />

and textures are prepared in different regions<br />

of the country. Many traditional regional cuisines<br />

rely on basic methods of preservation such<br />

as drying, salting, pickling and fermentation<br />

The Chinese dining etiquette has that youths<br />

should not sit at the table before the elders. In<br />

addition to this, youths should not start eating<br />

before the elders start eating. When eating with<br />

a bowl, one should not hold it with its bottom<br />

part, because it resembles the act of begging.<br />

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Rice<br />

Rice is a major staple food for people from rice<br />

farming areas in southern China. Steamed rice, usually<br />

white rice, is the most commonly eaten form. Rice<br />

is also used to produce beers, wines and vinegars.<br />

Rice is one of the most popular foods in China and is<br />

used in many dishes. Glutinous rice (“sticky rice”) is a<br />

variety of rice used in many specialty Chinese dishes.<br />

Wheat<br />

In wheat-farming areas in Northern China,<br />

people largely rely on flour-based food,<br />

such as noodles, breads, jiaozi (a kind of<br />

Chinese dumplings), and d buns).<br />

Landmarks of<br />

Hong Kong Cuisine<br />

Jumbo Kingdom (Chinese means<br />

literally: “Treasure Kingdom”)<br />

consists of the Jumbo Floating<br />

Restaurant and the adjacent Tai<br />

Pak Floating Restaurant, renowned<br />

tourist attractions in Aberdeen<br />

South Typhoon Shelter, within<br />

Hong Kong’s Aberdeen Harbour.<br />

Noodles<br />

Chinese noodles come dry or fresh in a variety<br />

of sizes, shapes and textures and are often served<br />

in soups or fried as toppings. Some varieties, such<br />

as Shou Mian (literally noodles of longevity), are<br />

symbolic of long life and good health according<br />

to Chinese tradition. Noodles can be served hot or<br />

cold with different toppings, with broth, and occasionally<br />

dry (as is the case with mi-fun). Noodles<br />

are commonly made with rice flour or wheat flour,<br />

but other flours such as soybean are also used.<br />

Tea<br />

Longjing tea, also known as Dragon Well tea,<br />

is a variety of roasted green tea from Hangzhou,<br />

Zhejiang Province, China, where it is produced<br />

mostly by hand and has been renowned for its<br />

high quality, earning the China Famous Tea title.<br />

As well as with dim sum, many Chinese drink<br />

their tea with snacks such as nuts, plums, dried<br />

fruit (in particular jujube), small sweets, melon<br />

seeds, and waxberry. China was the earliest<br />

country to cultivate and drink tea, which is enjoyed<br />

by people from all social classes. Tea processing<br />

began after the Qin and Han Dynasties.<br />

Chinese tea is often classified into several different<br />

categories according to the species of plant<br />

from which it is sourced, the region in which it is<br />

grown, and the method of production used. Some<br />

of these types are green tea, oolong tea, black tea,<br />

scented tea, white tea, and compressed tea. There<br />

are four major tea plantation regions: Jiangbei, Jiangnan,<br />

Huanan and the southwestern region.<br />

Over 30 million visitors have<br />

visited Jumbo Kingdom, including<br />

Queen Elizabeth II, John Wayne,<br />

Chad Garvin, David Bowie, Tom<br />

Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chow Yun<br />

Fat, Stephen Chow and Gong Li.<br />

There was also a Jumbo Kingdom<br />

Manila in Manila Bay, Philippines,<br />

but it was closed after 8 years of<br />

operation. Jumbo Kingdom is part<br />

of Melco International Development<br />

Limited, a company listed in<br />

the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.<br />

The Jumbo Kingdom was established<br />

in October 1976 by Dr.<br />

Stanley Ho after four years and<br />

over HK$30 million were spent to<br />

design and build it. It was originally<br />

decorated in the style of an<br />

ancient Chinese imperial palace.<br />

In 2000, two tugboats brought one<br />

of the floating barges (Palace) from<br />

the Aberdeen Harbour to the mouth<br />

of Manila Bay, and it was rebranded<br />

as the “Jumbo Kingdom Manila”.<br />

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LETTERS<br />

Hong Kong<br />

Blues<br />

BY VICTORIA RUDE<br />

The visa policy of<br />

Hong Kong deals<br />

with the requirements<br />

in which a foreign<br />

national wishing to<br />

enter the Hong Kong<br />

Special Administrative<br />

Region must<br />

meet to obtain an<br />

entry permit or visa,<br />

which depending on<br />

the traveller’s nationality,<br />

may be required<br />

to travel to, enter, and<br />

remain in the Hong<br />

Kong Special Administrative<br />

Region.<br />

Visitors from over<br />

145 countries are<br />

permitted visa-free<br />

entry for periods<br />

ranging from 7 to 180<br />

days, to the Hong<br />

Kong Special Administrative<br />

Region for<br />

tourism or certain<br />

business-related<br />

activities.All visitors<br />

must hold a passport<br />

valid for more than 1<br />

month.<br />

Unless having the<br />

right to land or right<br />

of abode in Hong<br />

Kong, nationals of<br />

all countries and<br />

territories require<br />

entry permits or visas<br />

from the Hong Kong<br />

Immigration Department<br />

directly or via<br />

one of the Chinese<br />

diplomatic missions<br />

overseas, to undertake<br />

other activities, such<br />

as study, employment,<br />

or operation<br />

of a business. Under<br />

the one country, two<br />

systems policy, Hong<br />

Kong maintains its<br />

immigration and visa<br />

policy independently<br />

from the rest of<br />

China. Consequently,<br />

entering Hong Kong<br />

from mainland China<br />

or Macau requires<br />

passing through<br />

immigration checkpoints<br />

of mainland<br />

China or Macau.<br />

Whilst Macau residents<br />

have visafree<br />

access for<br />

short visits to Hong<br />

Kong, Mainland<br />

residents must<br />

obtain a Two-way<br />

Permit (EEP) with<br />

the appropriate exit<br />

endorsement from<br />

the Chinese Ministry<br />

of Public Security<br />

before visiting Hong<br />

Kong.<br />

Due to the historical<br />

background of Hong<br />

Kong, immigration<br />

status in Hong Kong<br />

is determined by a<br />

combination of both<br />

nationality and residence<br />

status. Therefore,<br />

even a Chinese<br />

national with the right<br />

of abode in Hong<br />

Kong has a slightly<br />

different status to a<br />

foreign national with<br />

the right of abode in<br />

Hong Kong as well.<br />

Hong Kong<br />

Happiness<br />

BY BRITNAAY BRANCH<br />

Hong Kong has a highly developed<br />

and sophisticated transport<br />

network, encompassing both public<br />

and private transport. Based on Hong<br />

Kong Government’s Travel Characteristics<br />

Survey, over 90 per cent<br />

of the daily journeys are on public<br />

transport, the highest rate in the<br />

world. However, in 2014 the Transport<br />

Advisory Committee, which<br />

advises the Government on transportation<br />

issues, issued a report on the<br />

much worsened congestion problem<br />

in Hong Kong and pointed at the<br />

excessive growth of private cars<br />

during the past 10–15 years.<br />

The Octopus card, a smart electronic<br />

money payment system, was introduced<br />

in September 1997 to provide<br />

an alternative to the traditional<br />

banknotes and coins. Available for<br />

purchase in every station of the Mass<br />

Transit Railway system, the Octopus<br />

card is a non-touch payment system<br />

which allows payment not only for<br />

public transport (such as trains,<br />

buses, trams, ferries and minibuses),<br />

but also at parking meters, convenience<br />

stores, supermarkets, fastfood<br />

restaurants and most vending<br />

machines.<br />

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