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 Local
Colors | | These are not
sightseeing sights per se, and some may just be little things that are interesting
to a visitor. | | Customs,
Festivals & Celebrations | - Chinese
New Year - the biggest event to the Chinese. more...
- Mid-Autumn
festival - moon-cakes and Chinese lanterns under a full moon. more...
- Dragon
Boat festival - rice dumplings and dragon boat racing. more...
- Ching
Ming festival - a time to pay respects to the dead. more...
- Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance - a different kind of dragon dance. more...
- weddings
- weddings in Hong Kong have are a mix of traditions from east and west.
- funerals
- hopefully you won't have one here
See the Hong Kong Tourism Board website for other festivals | | Food
| - Worm veg? - you
decide for yourself exactly what it is! more...
- Chicken feet soup - talk
about "reaching from beneath"! more...
- Claypot rice - rice
cooked with meat, winter favorite more...
- Thousand
year egg - blackened
preserved eggs, a local favorite. more...
- Pineapple
bun - a favorite pastry. more...
- Cocktail bun - a favorite pastry.
- Steamed
egg custard - a tasty dessert. more...
- dim sum dishes
| | Misc | - End
product delivery - I don't want to give it away: you'll have to see
it! more...
- Bamboo
scaffolding - from renovation involving the outside wall of a 50-storey
building to erecting a neon sign hanging over a busy road, bamboo scaffolding
is widely used. Just keep your eyes open and you will see them everywhere. [more]
- Herbal
medicine - with a history of literally
thousands of years in China, herbal medicine and treatment is quite common in
Hong Kong. [more]
- Shoesmith
- streetside shoe
repair [more]
- Pawn
shops - even
when you see one, you may not recognize it since many of them don't display an
English name. But there are ways to tell ... [more]
- Cantonese
opera - the
traditional form of opera set in ancient times. more...
- Mahjong
- a favorite passtime
for many. more...
- Chinese
junk (boat) - fishermen
families used to live in these [more]
- toilets - in some you are treated like royalty, in others... more...
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