The 10 most representative Hong Kong Designs

September 28, 2004 at 10:07 AM

They are -

1. 茶餐廳 (Cha Chan Tang/HK-style cafe)

2. 舊式電車 (tram on HK Island)

3. 天星小輪 (Star Ferry)

4. 波蘿油 (pineapple bun with butter)

5. 紅白藍袋 (red/white/blue bag)

6. 鴛鴦 (a drink; coffee and tea mix)

7. 青馬大橋 (Tsing Ma Bridge)

8. 曾灶財 (a "calligrapher")

9. 老夫子 (a cartoon character)

10. 尖沙咀鐘樓 (clock tower at Tsim Sha Tsui)

http://www.rthk.org.hk/press/chi/subframe.htm?20040927&66&120120

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/040927/12/1545o.html

September 28, 2004 at 09:10 PM

one more...

11. the smell of the harbor. it's called "fragrant harbor" for a reason.

btw, your dancing moon cakes are making me hungry.

September 28, 2004 at 09:37 PM

Geek_frappa:

Maybe you won't believe it.

When I was in High School, the government used to hold annual cross-harbor swimming contest in the summer with hundreds of contestants participating.

When I was in primary school, many swimming clubs just delineated certain parts of water off the North Point and West Point by buoys and marked that swimming area exclusively for members' use.

Even after I just graduated and worked for my first job, I still went on fishing in the harbor in a sampan during the weekends.

September 28, 2004 at 09:51 PM

When I was in primary school, many swimming clubs just delineated certain parts of water off the North Point and West Point by buoys and marked that swimming area exclusively for members' use.
Even after I just graduated and worked for my first job, I still went on fishing in the harbor in a sampan during the weekends.

that's wonderful! :-) some relaxation on the harbor would be good for me right now, too. were you a professional swimmer in school? for competition?

September 28, 2004 at 10:32 PM

were you a professional swimmer in school? for competition?

I was but the training was more like that in a military camp.

September 29, 2004 at 12:35 AM

I got invited to the school team but I never showed up. Was/Am very lazy.

September 29, 2004 at 12:48 AM

曾灶財 -- is much more than merely a calligrapher.

Since my childhood in the '50s and '60s, Mr. Tsang has been doing graffiti all over Kowloon -- on every street side electrical transformer box, under highway flyover,......etc.

The most funny thing is that Mr. Tsang has been claiming himself to be the "King of Kowloon" and asked the colonial government (and SAR) for land tax payment that owed him in his graffiti.

First, people thought that he was a nut. But gradually people started to appreciate his writing and even his calligraphy.

Later some advertising agency even used his calligraphgy to make commercials.

Lately Tsang the Highness is less visible in the media and street corner (He should be in his 90s or late 80s). But somehow occasionally he still liked to do some graffiti.

Interestingly so far Tsang the Highness has only been detained by police and indicted once for all these decades.

September 29, 2004 at 04:07 AM

Yeah, I've read a travelog written in the 1920s, and the author said the Victoria Harbour reminded him of the ............... West Lake. Xi Hu, in Hangzhou!