As conveyed to LocalHood by the Blue Lotus Gallery
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
Home Kong through an artist's 👁️ye:
Blue Lotus Gallery, established in 2007, is a photography gallery with a strong focus on exploring Hong Kong culture and identity. Different perspectives opens up our minds. In our news letters, different artists from the Gallery will give us a peek into their own HK. Through their perspective, their lens. The Blue Lotus gallery offers an exquisite selection of books, limited edition and vintage prints on old and new Hong Kong by respected master photographers and emerging c
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Shobhana Subramanian@ LocalHood Website Volunteers Team
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
Personal recount: Getting expat parents/family to Hong Kong
My article might seem outdated, given the current removal of compulsory hotel quarantine for persons arriving in Hong Kong, but given that rules keep changing everyday here, I thought let me share our collective experience as a family when we decided to bring back my 75-year-old mother-in-law from India to Hong Kong. Given the amount of preflight paperwork involved, I was quite adamant that either my husband or I accompany her on her maiden visit to HK. She’s actually a veter
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Nicola Cheung @ LocalHood Website Content Team
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
Food Porn Alert: Mid-Autumn Festiv🥮l dishes in pics
Hi! My name is Nicola Cheung. I am a LocalHood volunteer since over 2 years now I volunteered to do this photo-essay on the food that we typically eat for Mid-Autumn Festival as I come from a family of foodies and I also love this festival, moon cakes et everything that goes with it. Through this photo essay I'd like to share with you my celebration of this important Chinese festival. On that night we had dinner altogether with my family. As usual, there was good food and goo
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Saravanan Subramaniam@ LocalHood Website Volunteers Team
- Sep 29, 2022
- 2 min
The ABC of Chung Yeung Festival in 550 words
Chung Yeung Festival, a public holiday that is celebrated this coming 4th of October 2022 in Hong Kong. Rich with traditions that dates back a couple of thousand years or so, this day is celebrated with activities like hiking up mountains, paying respect to ancestors and loved ones by commemorating them, and balancing one’s yin-yang energy. We, at team localhood , took this opportunity to learn more about this upcoming festival which is also known as Double Ninth Festival and
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LocalHood Events Volunteer Team
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: Story reading Wednesdays @ Oct to The Nesbitt Centre's specially-abled adults
LocalHood (www.localhood.org) invites you to spread joys and smiles by story reading to The Nesbitt Centre's specially abled students in October. October ALL Wednesdays: 1:00 - 2:00 with 5-8 adult learners with disabilities Volunteers needed: 1-2 lead storytellers, 2 supporting volunteers* (SO MAX of 4 volunteers total per session) Excited to get going and spread smiles in the community😁?? So are we🎉❤. WHERE: The sessions will be held at The Nesbitt Centre, Sai Ying Pun EVE
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LocalHood Events Volunteer Team
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
Mahjong for beginners- Session 1: Thur, 27th Oct @ Wanchai
When in Rome do as the Romans do. In Hong Kong the locals play Mahong 🀄🀄. We are BACK with our popular Mahjong Initiation session once again. So, if you want to learn the ropes of the game come join us and learn the basics of this very interesting game ❤✌. Date & Time: Fri, 27th of Oct from 7-8-30 pm Venue: The Zenith clubhouse (5F), 258 Queens Road East, Wanchai Event Contribution: 40HKD/per participant by PayMe 61098138 OR Bank transfer to HSBC 607-152626-888 (with a comm
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Admin
- Sep 15, 2022
- 1 min
Evening Hike for Beginners Braemer Hill to Quarry Bay🚶🏻🏃♀️for beginners @ 5pm Fri, 21st Oct
Join LocalHood connecting HK neighbourhoods (www.localhood.org) on a SOCIAL DISTANCED Easy to Moderate Evening HIKE from Braemer Hill to Quarry Bay When: Fri, 14th Oct @ 5pm DIFFICULTY: Easy to Moderate TIME DURATION: Appx. 1.5hours. MEETING POINT: 5pm in front of Chinese International School, Braemer Hill. EVENT CONTRIBUTION: 30HKD per participating ADULT by Pay me 61098138 OR Bank transfer to HSBC 607-152626-888 (with a comment "LocalHood Repulse Bay NITE WALK"; pls send us
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Saravanan Subramaniam, PDF @ LocalHood Website Content Team
- Sep 15, 2022
- 5 min
Dim Sum for every wallet in the CWD😅
Who doesnt know what the above is? Hopefully, most Hong Kong residents do know it represents the quintessential Hong Kong dish, Dim Sum (點心) and for the more local crowd it is referred to as Yum Cha (點心). What started of as breakfast dishes, has now evolved into an art of eating small dishes alongside a cup of Chinese tea. Team LocalHood took the opportunity to look for some local Dim Sum places, some more local than the others. 1. Sun Hing Dim Sum: Eating the local way Addr
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Admin
- Sep 14, 2022
- 3 min
Kirsten’s Zoo: Guardian angel of cats N 🐶
Nov 2018. Republished and updated Sept 2022 Back home in England, Kirsten Mitchell grew up watching her mother always carrying a shopping basket with dog and cat food, making sure no strays she came upon, ever went hungry. When Kirsten moved to Hong Kong the sorry plight of cats and dogs in the poorly managed and unhygienic ‘prison-like’ animal shelters in the city, made her set out on a mission to ensure, that every abandoned cat and dog in the city, found a loving and comfo
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@Fiona Lee LocalHood Website Volunteers Team
- Sep 14, 2022
- 4 min
Personal experience: Giving birth at the Queens Mary Hospital during Covid times
So there I was, on 4 July at my regular 37th week antenatal appointment at Queen Mary Hospital (“QMH”), when the doctor tells me that I need to be admitted immediately for monitoring - my baby was sideways instead of head down, as he should be by then. I was shocked as all my checkups prior to that had been normal. I was sad too, as I had to cancel my 2 year old’s birthday party scheduled for that weekend 😅😅. The hospital made me submit a saliva sample for a PCR test, in pr
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