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Fragrant Harbour

Fragrant Harbour

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Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in. There is a small stream of water that flows across the city of Hong Kong. Many people are actually of the opinion that the waters of the Pearl River are sweet tasting. For a long time, the stream has provided clean and clear water for the residents of the city. The water has been used for domestic and industrial purposes. Thus, the naming of the city may have been inspired by the fragrant waters of this stream which was named the “fragrant river.” It is from the name fragrant river that Hong Kong received the name “Fragrant Harbor.” A Harbor For Fragrant Agarwood

Ap Lei Chau is traditionally where the water community comes ashore for land food and this is still true today. Tat Kee’s char siu — Cantonese-style roast pork — is local Ap Lei Chau hotspot. The original owner, Mr. Tat, is a retired Jumbo chef famous for roasting pork shoulders in his small kitchen. The restaurant is now run by Mr. Kau, who now runs this popular shop has continued with his mission ‘to serve the water community,” as he puts it. The symbol of a sailing ship displayed proudly on the shop sign says it all. That village is now known in English as Aberdeen, though its heritage lives on through its Chinese name, Hoeng 1 Gong 2 Zai 2 , which means Little Hong Kong. Aberdeen is one of those areas that is simultaneously famous yet overlooked: nearly everyone in Hong Kong could tell you it is the location of the renowned Jumbo floating restaurant, and they would probably advise you to take a sampan tour of its typhoon shelter, which is home to the remnants of a once-enormous floating village. But they likely haven’t spent much time in the picturesque south side neighbourhood themselves.

This is, in some ways, a really difficult book to review. Having lived in Hong Kong for four years, I got a frission of recognition and excitement when - particularly in the first section - the book seems to have been a carbon copy of the time I went through. This makes it difficult to separate the book from my own personal memories of my time in Hong Kong. However, the second section is almost like a history lesson of Hong Kong and again, was interesting just to see how the city had come together to be the place I knew. That is precisely the experience the novel offers: a passive one. There is pleasure in Lanchester's intelligent and measured prose, and in his rapid, seemingly expert analysis of a volatile and intriguing region. The arrival of the principal characters in Hong Kong is done in a travelogue style surely substandard for Lanchester, a writer formerly so careful in the control of the narrative voice. The Red Sea has to be described because in the old days one went through it on the boat, and the airport (the old one) is dutifully dealt with when somebody arrives by plane. Fragrant Harbor takes the reader from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s through the savagery of the Japanese occupation to contemporary Hong Kong -- the crossroads of international trade and finance and the waystation for laundering the dirty money of warlords, drug runners, and Chinese triads. The novel ends three years after the Mainland Chinese takeover, with Hong Kong as greedy, corrupt, and corrupting as when Stewart first landed there. To the anger of Beijing - and some in London - he pushed through plans to extend Hong Kong's democratic base. Despite fierce rhetoric from China, feelings were eventually assuaged such that the handover ceremony took place smoothly on the humid, rain-soaked night of June 30 1997.

Here I have an advantage over him, having been there in August 1945, trying to attend to released internees, and I can pit my memory against his imagination. This is a fortuitous advantage that a reviewer ought not to take. Still, Hong Kong was a more awful place in 1945 than this account of it makes clear.Jumbo’s unique setting has caught the interest generations of filmmakers. Bruce Lee’s legendary Enter the Dragon , Stephen Chow’s God of Cookery, Suzie Wong and The Man With the Golden Gun all had scenes filmed at Jumbo, while the 1988 miniseries Noble House , starring Pierce Brosnan as the taipan of a venerable British trading company, recreated Jumbo’s tragic fire. a 2016 oil. the core and essence of konbaung a previous burma oil is present here, but this oil is siginficantly more bitter, more high pitched, plenty more green, while that pith of yellow orchard fruit is still there. hints of laos oils and hindi oils are sensed here and so is a cambodi/vietnamese vibe. People are full of fantasies about how to do business in China. The key is that you must find people with power and deal directly with them and be clear about everything and be prepared to pay." (p. 269) Sham Shui Po is renowned among Hong Kongers for the richness and variety of its culinary scene, so while you’re in the area, try to bag a seat at Tim Ho Wan, a Michelin-recommended dim sum joint known for its delectable (and affordable) BBQ pork buns, steamed egg cake, bean-curd skin with pork and shrimp and pan-fried carrot cake. If you can’t find a seat there, worry not – the area abounds with old, established family restaurants, as well as noodle cafes, dumpling stores, beancurd factories and Chinese sweet shops selling traditional favourites alongside new twists with a regional bent, such as the durian pancake. West Kowloon



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