Category Archives: Beer

One For The Team

Posted on December 30, 2012 by cecilie

This is how it started. We had dived into an upmarket restaurant because the temperature was dropping fast and it was raining; we just couldn’t bear the thought of another meal with our backs to an open door, huddled around … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Camera

Posted on December 25, 2012 by cecilie

We must have stayed in the wrong part of town in that Foshan, for surely there are more interesting and less sterile parts of it than the area where our hotel, the City Inn, was. And less windy, eight-laned and … Continue reading →

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The Worst Drink In The World

Posted on December 10, 2012 by cecilie

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My Column

Posted on November 27, 2012 by cecilie

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Me! Me! Me!

Posted on September 30, 2012 by cecilie

I never realised how much fish resemble children until I went into the gardens of the beautifully appointed Fuhua Hotel in Zhongshan yesterday. With no respect for their elders and betters, it’s all me! Me! Me! in the fish world, … Continue reading →

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The Agonies of a Hong Kong Tenant 2:

Posted on August 10, 2012 by cecilie

So this was going to be a blow-by-blow account of how I tried, and succeeded in, buying the lovely, intensely lovely, village house in Pui O against all odds. I was going to tell you about how the landlord told … Continue reading →

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New Gaff Function

Posted on May 25, 2012 by cecilie

The 15th of April was the 100th anniversary of Titanic’s tragic demise, and I wanted to commemorate in style, with the old roof garden decked out in its finest gear, and with a live orchestra. It was a hoppingly successful … Continue reading →

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Guangdong Delight

Posted on May 17, 2012 by cecilie

After I started writing for famed newspaper South China Morning Post (their Post Magazine on Sundays) it seems this blog has gone to hell. Now I’m getting paid to write what I would normally put here. I like getting paid. … Continue reading →

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Victory: Rare Bout of Sanity Hits Hong Kong Lawmakers!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by cecilie

Seems like Lantau is saved (for now) – all the parties shot down the incinerator proposal at Legco today. Rest in peace, idiotic ideas from the environmental ‘protection’ department! So we brace ourselves for the next onslaught, because they have … Continue reading →

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Cows. Dogs. Beer.

Posted on March 7, 2012 by cecilie

Charity!!! Good cause!!! Good taste! Come to Lantau on Saturday and get into the groove of the Lantau International Beer Dash! It is… exactly what it’s called. You dash, then drink some beer, then dash again. The run or hobble … Continue reading →

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