This is the second in a two-part series exploring Hong Kong's captivating yet disappearing neon signs, once a bright and iconic part of the city's landscape. — ED. HONG KONG — Growing up in ...
Some 30 years ago, Wu Chi-kai – 18 at the time – took a temporary job making neon signs at his father’s company just to do something useful with his summer. “At first, it was really just a ...
In 1960s Hong Kong, businesses hung dazzling signs above the streets or attached to walls in hopes of luring customers into their shops. Red, green, yellow and blue neon-lit billboards illuminated ...
But sixty years later, times are changing. Back then, Hong Kong’s streets embraced a symphony of colourful neon signs. They represented prosperity and the raw commercialism of ambitious ...
Amid the whirlwind of sociopolitical changes that transformed Hong Kong from a liberal city to an authoritarian state after enacting the National Security Law in 2020 and the Article 23 Domestic ...
On earlier visits, Ann Hui found the city obsessed with the future, but now it’s fixated on nostalgia. Cue the comfort food ...
Hong Kong has its own visual fingerprint. With its shimmering buildings stretching to the sky, shoulder to shoulder along the famous harborfront, it’s instantly recognizable. The neon signs that ...
and at night you can see the streets light up with colour and neon signs.” With its unmistakable blend of the traditional and the modern, of East and West, city and nature, Hong Kong brings the ...
This colourful restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui is full of retro Y2K vibes with plenty of neon signs ... this new resto-bar takes its name from the Hong Kong adult magazine, Lung Fu Pao.
The food and drink industry in Hong ... Kong-style western steakhouses. Perched on the corner of Luard Road and Johnston Road, the restaurant has been a Wan Chai landmark with its unmissable giant ...
David Missal, a German citizen and graduate of the University of Hong Kong said on Sunday that he had been refused entry to ...