Despite the days of soaking, rinsing and wrapping involved, every year Yan Song makes 1,000 zongzi, or rice dumplings, to mark the Dragon Boat Festival. This year, she hasn't been able to recruit staff at her shop to help her wrap them all, but she's determined still to do it herself.
Mystery over the fate of Hong Kong’s Jumbo Floating Restaurant deepened yesterday after its owner stirred confusion over whether the financially struggling tourist attraction had actually sunk while being towed away from the territory last week.
On Monday, Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises released a statement saying that the vessel had capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands, 西沙群島) in the South China Sea after it “encountered adverse conditions” and began to take on water.
“The water depth at the scene is over 1,000 metres, making it extremely difficult to carry out salvage works,” it said.
On Thursday night, the Hong Kong Marine