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The international cuisines of Paris

If you’re exploring Paris but fancy a break from its famed French dishes, you’ll soon discover that the well-established international […]

I’ve now written 8 short posts on my exploratory trip to Hong Kong. I won’t rehash what I’ve covered before, but

In this series I’ve been recounting something of my travels and observations when I visited Hong Kong back at the

I have always been a Burgess fan. Novelist, composer, linguist, talk show guest, interviewee and general polymath, Burgess’s greatest legacy

In the second half of my week in Hong Kong I visited the northern towns of the territory. I transferred

For many, the modern Island of Hong Kong is synonymous with Hong Kong itself. During my week travelling, I only

Following on from my previous post, here are some further observations when out and about in Kowloon. Convenience stores are

Kowloon is the southern peninsula of the mainland, looking South onto Hong Kong Island. Kowloon has been described as

This article is a summary of my findings from wandering around Hong Kong for a week. The cuisines on

Ugliness The first point we can make, without fear of contradiction, is that most of the cramped accomodation in Hong