the big fat world

  Gambling in Macau is the heart of Eastern gambling country. It’s about a one-hour ferry ride from Hong Kong and costs under $20.  Macau qualifies as another country for those stamp seeking folk and you can attribute 4 stamps in the old passport for a round trip excursion. Macau is a former Portuguese outpost [...]

It’s a little known fact for the visitor to Hong Kong that besides the bustling commercial and financial centers, the culture and  history and the bid Buddha, Hong Kong has over 250k Filipino maids/nanny’s/workers. Bored Hong Kong wives demand much of these ladies during the week what with their shopping trips and tennis lessons, someone [...]

Hong Kong is a dichotomy of yesterday’s culture and customs being slowly crushed by the gleaming glass buildings of the new economy. Old ways are dying with it residents as a new shopping centers spring up like the weeds in my garden. But for all the losses, we gain a truly surreal city of how [...]

There is certainly one Big Buddha in Hong Kong. His claim to fame is he is the world’s largest sitting Buddha, not to be confused with another big sitting buddha in Phuket. As you guessed it, it looks like a sitting bronze giant about the size of well I don’t know a giant sitting Buddha. [...]

Besides giving me a much coveted Silver status with US Airways, Hong Kong offers an array of day, night, and weekend adventures. You can choose to stay on the island or pop over to the mainland to partake in some excellent knock-ff shopping in Shenzhen or feast your eyes on the glittering prize of Macau for [...]

One of the most amazing things in HK is the skyline. You can see it from a number of spots, Victoria Peak and from the posh residential section up in the hills. You can also sit back and watch the jagged mountainous skyline go by on a Hong Kong ferry ride. Watch more Hong Kong [...]

Hong Kong, love it or hate it, but you have to respect the awe that this city’s skyline inspires. HK has more than 7500 high rise buildings, that’s more than NYC. Its’ majesty extends into Kowloon across the bay and when you go up to Victoria Peak, as every visitor does, you can see the [...]