February 7th, 2010 by admin
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I passed this Siu Mei (烧味) restaurant in Jordan, in a side street just off Shanghai street. These two pigs really looked enticing, and there were other cuts of meat hanging alongside with lovely looking crackling, plenty of meat and a lovely barbecued flavour-ful skin.
I can’t imagine those burned little pig’s ears would be the delicacy they reputedly are however!
The chef didn’t mind me taking some photos and even tried to ‘pose’ for some shots while at work.
The pork ribs were roughly sliced through the bone and served on a bed a rice with a minced ginger sauce.
February 4th, 2010 by admin
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A Night at the Races
If you’re in Hong Kong on a Wednesday evening you have to go to the races. I arrived in Hong Kong on a Tuesday and stayed for 9 days, which meant I could go the races twice! Racing in Hong Kong is very accessible, in terms of travel and getting involved; it’s a lot of fun, a lovely grass race track where the going is always good and a great mix of local’s, mainland Chinese (both of whom love gambling), with a lot of working foreigners and other tourists from all over. » Read more: Happy Valley
December 22nd, 2009 by admin
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I just bought an iPhone online in Hong Kong and it was delivered by TNT, unlocked. Excitedly I took out the user guide, bizarrely called ‘finger tips’ and learned how to turn the phone on. » Read more: iPhone Getting Started
December 19th, 2009 by admin
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Albino Black Sheep
From a games page on We Live in Beijing, I started playing a game called Bloxorz, which is hosted on Albino Black Sheep, a predominately flash based gaming zone. Damien Clarke, the designer behind Bloxorz works for DX Interactive, and from this site, you can find out more about Bloxorz by clicking on ‘Flash Games’ and then ‘Bloxorz’. » Read more: Time Wasters
December 7th, 2009 by admin
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My office colleague has borrowed a Canon EOS 400D Digital Camera for her first trip to Hong Kong and so we wonder down to Victoria harbour so she can take her first souvenir shots of Hong Kong.
I’ve been meaning to upgrade to a Canon Powershot G9 or G10 for some time. Now I’ve seen there is a G11 on the market and still I’m managing with my little Ixus 80.
» Read more: Canon Camera Can
December 7th, 2009 by admin
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Overnight train to Huangshan
Tuesday 1st December 2009
My last entry explained my stressful journey from Hong Kong to Shenzhen Xi Train Station. That is where I boarded this train to Huangshan.
Shenzhen Xi is a little used train station in the industrial part of Shenzhen. The K25/K26 train service is a privately run route from ShenZhen West 深圳西 to Nanjing West 南京西. I’ll be travelling as far as Huangshan 黄山.
I didn’t know there were private train lines in China and apart from the branding in the restaurant car, it is little different from any other train journey in China.
» Read more: Train K26 – Shēnzhèn xī to Huángshān
December 7th, 2009 by admin
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Hong Kong China Border
I wouldn’t normally regale my trip across Hong Kong and through the Shenzhen border, but when preparing for this small trip, I didn’t find any info on the route to Shenzhen Xi Train Station.
I stop by the travel agent in Hong Kong to finalise the next segment of my journey, where I’m handed my train ticket from Shenzhen to Huangshan. Here Kelvin warns me that the train leaves from the West Station in Shenzhen, which is much further from the border than the main station – basically it is in the middle of nowhere. » Read more: Hong Kong to Shenzhen
November 21st, 2009 by admin
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trying to embed a movie from this server…
Italian Soccer Training Program
Next, I have uploaded a video to the media manager on Wordpress (I had to use the Add from Server plugin) as php.ini has a 2MB upload limit and then the media manager had a problem crunching a smaller video, insisting the .flv wasn’t a secure upload. wtf. Anyway, here is the added video, let’s see how it is displayed.. It’s a bit buggy, tries to open as a overlay, but doesn’t quite work. Maybe there is a conflict with some other code.
I then added the Vipers Video Quicktag plugin so the video would be displayed inline..
http://yabbox.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Italian Soccer Training Program.flv
