October
Out with summer mugginess, in with a dry, warm breeze. Below, photos from the fourth edition of the Beertopia craft beer festival and scenes from the quickly gentrifying neighbourhood of Shek Tong Tsui.
December
Winter in Hong Kong is usually dry and sunny, but this year, El Niño made it wet and uncomfortable. Below, scenes from the New Territories suburb of Yuen Long. Transit nerds will be interested to know that Hong Kong has both a traditional tramway (on Hong Kong Island) and a modern light rail system (in Yuen Long and Tuen Mun).
Yuen Long has some villages that are hundreds of years old.
It also has one of the nicest public libraries in Hong Kong.
The type of drainage channel you see below is known in Hong Kong as a nullah. Most of them are pretty grim concrete affairs but there are some efforts to green or naturalize them here and there.
Homemade dessert soup.
Another one of those nullahs.
Lately there have been a lot of Russian buskers on the streets of Hong Kong.
Below, some scenes from Central.
A couple shots from my balcony.
This winter I wrote about Hong Kong's World War II legacy for a cultural centre in Quebec City. As part of the project I visited some military sites to take photos. Below, images from the Sai Wan War Cemetery where Allied soldiers who died defending Hong Kong from the Japanese are buried.
Below, the cenotaph in Central. The streets nearby are closed to traffic on Sundays for Filipino helpers to gather.
Next, a trip to Devil's Peak and the old Gough Battery near Lei Yue Mun, two abandoned parts of Hong Kong's 19th century coastal defence system, which was built to defend the territory against Russian invasion. It's an easy 30-minute walk from Yau Tong MTR station.
Ruins like these are a popular spot for cosplay photoshoots.
February
You may have heard of the "fishball riots" or "fishball revolution" around Chinese New Year. This was the trigger: an illegal new year night market that the government has been trying to eliminate. When activists began fighting with police, it led to a 10-hour series of street battles around Mongkok. These photos were taken the day after, which was peaceful. The police kept their distance.
March
A few scenes taken between Mong Kok East MTR station and Fuk Tsun Street in Tai Kok Tsui, where an annual temple festival was taking place.
The festival included a huge neighbourhood feast known as "poon choi," in which a ton of different meats, vegetables and shellfish are piled up inside a giant pot.
Finally, we're back in the New Territories, this time in an old market town, Tai Po, that became a master-planned suburb in the 1970s.
Local bananas.
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