https://www.scmp.com/rss/326614/feed Eduard is a summer intern at the South China Morning Post. He has reported from Beijing for several Spanish and English-language media outlets. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Is it possible to eat Thai food recommended by Michelin Guide experts at a reasonable price in Hong Kong? That’s exactly what Thai Chiu, a small joint tucked behind dai pai dongs in Graham Street, promises. The branch in Central is one of several. The original Thai Chiu in Sham Shui Po has been featured in the Bib Gourmand section (for “exceptionally good food at moderate prices”) of the Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau since 2011. “Simple it may be, but the food is good, and the prices are... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2163665/michelin-recommended-thai-meals-hong-kong-under-us13-and-they?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2163665/michelin-recommended-thai-meals-hong-kong-under-us13-and-they?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Sep 2018 04:31:15 +0000 Ian McKellen’s solemn portrayal of King Lear, a benevolent smirk on his face; Alfred Molina incarnating the conflict-ridden abstract painter Mark Rothko, depicted in shades of grey and red; drag-queen star Vicky Vox posing defiantly as the colourful, campy, murderous singing plant in The Little Shop of Horrors. Hong Kong theatre fan Felix Chan drew all of these, and 200 more – sketches and caricatures through which he tries to capture the essence of performances. Hong Kong-based caricaturist’s... https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2161628/no-selfies-here-theatre-fan-sketches-actors-preserve?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2161628/no-selfies-here-theatre-fan-sketches-actors-preserve?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:19:16 +0000 A wave of Chinese acquisitions of hi-tech companies in Germany has Berlin – traditionally a free trade proponent on the international stage – wary of granting market access to foreign investors. Late last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet for the first time moved to veto the Chinese takeover of a German firm. Yantai Taihai Group withdrew its offer for toolmaker Leifeld Metal Spinning at the last minute, after the German government signalled it would block the acquisition because of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2160911/once-welcoming-why-germany-wary-chinese-investment-amid-trumps?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/business/article/2160911/once-welcoming-why-germany-wary-chinese-investment-amid-trumps?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Aug 2018 00:00:45 +0000 Say mingalaba (hello in Burmese) to Mohinga, a new restaurant tucked away in Ho Man Tin, in Kowloon, which is offering a taste of Myanmar at a reasonable price. The cuisine from Myanmar, a country best known for its pagodas and rural charms, isn’t well represented in Hong Kong, where Southeast Asian restaurants are pretty much limited to Thai and Vietnamese, with a smattering of Malaysian and Singaporean. Perhaps diners are intimidated by the thought of fermented fish paste – although belacan... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2160543/new-restaurants-hong-kong-explore-burmese-cuisine-mohinga-ho?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2160543/new-restaurants-hong-kong-explore-burmese-cuisine-mohinga-ho?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Aug 2018 04:45:38 +0000 Record-breaking temperatures, devastating floods, raging bush fires and thousands of deaths. And this might just be the beginning. With Hong Kong and much of Asia experiencing unusually hot temperatures in the past few months, scientists have warned that heatwaves will become more frequent and more lethal. “Climate change has played an important role in the occurrence of heatwaves,” said Fu Cheung Sham, chief experimental officer at the Hong Kong Observatory. “As [the] climate warms, the chances... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2159232/how-many-more-will-have-die-asia-gets-hotter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2159232/how-many-more-will-have-die-asia-gets-hotter?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:03:02 +0000 In the heart of Lan Kwai Fong, Yo Dim offers cheap bites for those who want to take a break between beers. The restaurant, in Wo On Lane, off D’Aguilar Street, serves all-day dim sum, siu mai, spring rolls and steamed buns. Truffle potstickers, ceviche and great service: Chifa Dumpling House The place was empty when we arrived, but it took close to 20 minutes before we received most of our dishes. As we waited, the Sailor Moon warrior girls battled loudly on a television screen behind us. When I... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2158470/meal-under-hk100-lan-kwai-fong-dont-expect-magic-yo-dim-though?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/2158470/meal-under-hk100-lan-kwai-fong-dont-expect-magic-yo-dim-though?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Aug 2018 04:47:35 +0000 Lin Lusheng has fond memories of growing up in a tulou. These traditional circular buildings peculiar to southeastern China house dozens of families, in homes centered around an inner courtyard. “As my parents went up the mountains to cultivate the land, I was free to go to the neighbors’ home to play with other children, or to eat at their place. They treated me like their own child,” Lin, 36, says. But the number of people living in these unique structures has dwindled over the years, as young... https://www.scmp.com/society/man-trying-breathe-life-back-chinas-tulou-houses/article/2158447?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/man-trying-breathe-life-back-chinas-tulou-houses/article/2158447?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Aug 2018 09:45:15 +0000 When you went to France for a year, at the age of 24, how familiar were you with the cuisine? “I didn’t know much before going to the country. In Japan, there used to be a television show called The Heaven of Cuisine, which helped me to learn a bit about it, but I still barely knew anything.” What was the first French dish you learned to cook? “A classic one – pigeon with berry sauce. I learned it more than 20 years ago. At the time, I found it really disgusting! But it was a valuable lesson, as... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/2158092/meet-japanese-chef-bringing-french-cuisine-heart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/2158092/meet-japanese-chef-bringing-french-cuisine-heart?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Aug 2018 02:00:17 +0000 Kazakhstan’s government is facing growing popular resentment against China, one of its major economic partners, as accounts emerge of Chinese-Kazakhs and Kazakh nationals being sent to “political re-education camps” in China’s Xinjiang region. In a widely followed case, a Kazakh court on Wednesday allowed an illegal Chinese immigrant to stay in the country after she gave details about an indoctrination centre in Xinjiang where she had been employed. “In China, they call it a political camp.... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2158028/chinese-handling-kazakhs-bump-belt-and-road?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2158028/chinese-handling-kazakhs-bump-belt-and-road?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Aug 2018 05:00:00 +0000 Lin Lusheng has fond memories of growing up in a tulou, one of the traditional circular buildings peculiar to southeastern China that house dozens of families in homes centred around an inner courtyard. “As my parents went up the mountains to cultivate the land, I was free to go to the neighbours’ home to play with other children, or to eat at their place. They treated me like their own child,” Lin, 36, says. Inside Fujian’s Unesco-listed Hakka roundhouses Tulou are usually associated with Hakka... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2157742/chinese-villagers-nostalgia-communal-living-sparks-revamp?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2157742/chinese-villagers-nostalgia-communal-living-sparks-revamp?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:16:24 +0000 Beiwei Kaishu is a classic Chinese calligraphy style, which was widely used for Hong Kong’s neon lights and signboards in the 1950s and 1960s. The style is robust and dynamic, with strokes that convey confidence to customers. But it’s also difficult and time-consuming to learn – which means that it’s passing out of fashion. 82-year-old calligrapher Yeung Kai is a master of the style, and he’s calling on technology to help preserve this unique art form. https://www.scmp.com/arts/calligraphy-master-preserves-hong-kongs-lost-art-signwriting/article/2156607?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/arts/calligraphy-master-preserves-hong-kongs-lost-art-signwriting/article/2156607?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:15:45 +0000 Wielding huge writing brushes, and scattering sawdust on billboards to make the ink dry faster – Chinese calligrapher Yeung Kai still remembers what it was like making shop signs in the old days. “The whole procedure used to be so complicated,” says the 82-year-old, sitting in his humble studio in Hong Kong, rolls of calligraphy paper stacked up around him and lucky red banners hung on the wall. Yeung is one of the few calligraphers who still make a living from the Beiwei Kaishu style of... https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2156229/lights-go-out-art-hong-kong-signwriting-old-calligraphy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2156229/lights-go-out-art-hong-kong-signwriting-old-calligraphy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:18:18 +0000 “Dragonair all set for take-off”, ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on June 2, 1985, firing the first shot in a battle for the skies that would rage until rival carrier Cathay Pacific bought a controlling stake in the airline in 1990. “Dragonair […] expects to get its first plane into the air by mid-July with a second possibly by August,” the story continued. “[It] intends to operate charter flights between Hong Kong and China where there is a massive demand for seats on... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2154981/dragonair-all-set-take-when-cathay-pacifics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2154981/dragonair-all-set-take-when-cathay-pacifics?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:15:45 +0000 In the remote tundra and boreal forests of northern Russia, droves of explorers ply the rivers on speedboats, often carrying little more than makeshift water pumps, provisions to survive for a few days, and weapons to scare off wild bears. They hope to unearth a treasure that has been lying beneath the frozen ground for thousands of years, and – like gold diggers in the Wild West – they are lured by tales of fortunes made in a single day. Mammoth skeleton auctioned for more than half a million... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2154599/russian-mammoth-ivory-hunt-grows-face-elephant-tusk-ban-can-it-help-save?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2154599/russian-mammoth-ivory-hunt-grows-face-elephant-tusk-ban-can-it-help-save?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:16:37 +0000 Hollywood action film writers have an obsession with Hong Kong. Directors have found in the cramped, surreal skyline of the city the perfect backdrop for all kinds of CGI-generated natural disasters, explosions and battles between otherworldly creatures. Skyscraper, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, is the latest film in which the Hong Kong skyline plays a central role. The movie is set in fictional tower The Pearl, supposedly the safest building on Earth … until it gets attacked by... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2154111/five-times-hollywood-destroyed-hong-kong-landmarks-or-entire-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2154111/five-times-hollywood-destroyed-hong-kong-landmarks-or-entire-city?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:15:53 +0000 Is it possible to combine voluptuous female figures with the dull-looking vertical lines of the city’s skyscrapers? This is the question Wilson Shieh has been exploring over the last 10 years, creating a series of paintings mainly depicting women dressed up as some of the most iconic buildings of Hong Kong. Some of his latest artworks can now be seen in the exhibition “Architecture Costume”, which will be held at the Experimental Gallery of the Hong Kong Arts Centre until Sunday. Chinese art... https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2151640/hong-kongs-skyline-turned-catwalk-thanks-artists-gift?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2151640/hong-kongs-skyline-turned-catwalk-thanks-artists-gift?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:04:20 +0000 Three cartoonish blood-spattered Ku Klux Klan figures cruise down the road smoking big cigars in Riding Around (1969), one of the images that greet visitors in a new exhibition at the Hauser & Wirth art gallery in Hong Kong’s Central district. The show, “Philip Guston: A Painter’s Forms, 1950-1979”, introduces one of the main figures of American abstract expressionism through the use of an audio guide. New York exhibition on TCM shows US history of Chinese medicine Narrated by Guston’s daughter... https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2151248/philip-guston-exhibition-hong-kong-narrated-his-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2151248/philip-guston-exhibition-hong-kong-narrated-his-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:15:58 +0000 Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump are in for a treat. The historic meeting between the North Korean leader and the US president will be held in one of the most luxurious hotels in Singapore, the Capella. The two countries may have chosen the venue for security reasons, due to its secluded location on Sentosa Island, but the world leaders might also be able to find time to stroll around the nearby tropical rainforest or quiet beaches. For the Singaporean Kwee family who own the Capella, the historic... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2150166/five-luxury-hotels-were-scene-momentous-summits-are-still?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2150166/five-luxury-hotels-were-scene-momentous-summits-are-still?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Jun 2018 03:45:45 +0000 We have been trekking for about two hours through Hsipaw’s tea plantations, rice paddies, and lush palm tree forests, when our tour guide tells us to slow down. Fifty metres ahead, a few armed men stand at a single-barrier checkpoint on the dirt road. We push on, and, after a few words with our guide, the men in military fatigues watch in silence as we cross the dusty control point. Our group of seven tourists has just delved into rebel-held territory in northern Myanmar. Back to Burma: How a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2138580/selfies-armed-guerillas-holidays-myanmar-beaten-track?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2138580/selfies-armed-guerillas-holidays-myanmar-beaten-track?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Mar 2018 11:47:22 +0000 Between 2011 and 2012, a wave of thefts hit museums and auction houses in the UK, targeting Chinese antiquities. In 2016, 14 people were convicted for the crimes, among them Douglas Wong Chi-ching, who travelled frequently to Hong Kong and was described by the BBC as a fence for the group. Such news comes as no surprise to experts concerned about the trade in illegally obtained antiquities and Hong Kong’s role in it. “In a case like this, you need to know that the pieces can go out to the... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/2136161/hong-kong-must-shut-door-illicit-trade-antiquities-it-can-emerge-global-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/2136161/hong-kong-must-shut-door-illicit-trade-antiquities-it-can-emerge-global-art?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:04:50 +0000