Ronson Chan
Photo: Ronson Chan
“The tram, or ‘ding ding’, is a Hong Kong icon. Moving through the Chinese signboard and the golden McDonald’s sign, it captures the phenomenon of
East-meets-West culture in Hong Kong.” Ronson Chan
Alex Castro-Moore
Photo: Alex Castro-Moore
“I’ve always loved the interesting results produced by shooting through windows of Traditional Chinese Medicine shops.” Alex Castro Moore
Elaine Li
Photo: Elaine Li
“This photo is peak Mong Kok. You can hear the honks and chatter through the image.” Elaine Li
Christopher Lim
Photo: Christopher Lim
“I used to feel lonely being alone. But I’m learning this same loneliness that isolates us is what brings us closer.” Christopher Lim
Last September, I went to my first lunch in months when Laetitia Yu and I took our friend Yuda Chan out for her birthday. Yu organised a wonderful set lunch at Petrus of crab, veal cheek with asparagus and a cheese board to finish. With the Island Shangri-La’s spectacular views, it made for a relaxing environment for a four-hour meal and catch-up.
Night at the museum
As the only black-tie dinner that was able to go ahead in 2020, the First Initiative Foundation’s fundraising gala at the Hong Kong Museum of Art was a huge highlight. My friend Michelle Ong worked tirelessly to host a truly incredible night, which was themed “everlasting wonder”.
It has been over a year of Covid-19 in Hong Kong and it can sometimes feel hard to remember what life was like before the pandemic. But, with the vaccine rollout currently forging ahead, there is hope that those times aren’t lost forever, and that we won’t be eternally stuck in a world of Zoom meetings, social distancing and face masks.
Luckily, we live in a city where we have multiple vaccine brands available to us and the process is quick and free of charge. The vaccines are exciting for us, and with summer approaching and low Covid-19 numbers being reported, it s given us all hope that Hong Kong is finally on the road to recovery. One day soon, we’ll find ourselves doing what we were doing just two years ago.
Hussain, dressed in his signature thin-knit black turtleneck and carrying a water bottle marked with the logo of Batman, says he knew even in January of last year that the coronavirus was going to take a devastating toll on the industry. He quickly drew up a playbook of safety protocols, which he distributed freely to restaurants around the world, an example of restaurateurs banding together that was hailed by international media including CNN and
The New York Times. That a man with a self-avowed desire to save the world would wind up contracting the virus was a cruel irony, particularly for someone who had worked so hard to keep businesses open and his financially strapped workers employed successfully thus far.
Fantasies about your love life, money and possessions may bubble to the surface this week, tempting you to act on your visions. This is the week to go for it.