August-September 2018

HOME & PROPERTY

Your hands-down favourite neighbourhood joint is: Second Draft. You won’t find better local food than at: Bing Kee dai pa dong. The best bargains in your neighbourhood are: The Minimal has some cool retro stuff. We love a good bargain. The best deals in your neighbourhood are: The $15 orchids at Song Lang. The strangest thing you’ve ever seen on your street is: A photoshoot involving a male model pretending to be asleep on a pillow in a phone box.

When you walk out of your place, what’s the first thing you see? The Lin Fa Temple stall. The closest store to your front door is? ParkNShop. The unofficial uniform of your area is? Anything cool as it can get very hot due to being built up. If a celebrity moves in next door, it will most likely be: A Cantonese catalogue model! When you’re in need of a dose of culture, you: Go f o r a w a n d e r a r o u n d my neighbourhood.

A mandatory stop for taking out- of-town guests is: Any rooftop bar. It’s a great thing to do with visitors; you get good views all over the city, but a regular for me is The Excelsior hotel rooftop bar. You’d swap houses in a second with: Li Ka-shing. A common myth about your neighbourhood is: It’s a hipster hangout. If you’re ever woken up at night, it’s almost always due to: Traffic. A massive late-night rager on your street is likely to involve: The Tai Hang Fire Dragon Dance – it only happens once a year but Tai Hang is transformed during this time.

The guiltiest pleasure in your area is: Shanghai dumplings!

One thing you’d never change is: The atmosphere.

But one thing you wouldn’t mind seeing go is: The cars that turn the street into a parking lot. The city gives you $5 million to soup up your street: Come up with better parking and also add some more greenery.

If you’re missing home, you: Call my parents.

DO YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD? Share it with others – just email us at info@expatliving.hk with “Street Talk” in the subject line. Include your name and street, and we’ll be in touch.

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