Highlights from the small (but, for me, sufficient) "Glamour of the Motherland" exhibition, Pacific Place mall...

Where's my luxury schooner gone???

When you haven't screwed things up enough yet...

Yes you can...

The search for new hubs continues...

Businesses at Hong Kong China City, TST extend a warm welcome to all visitors arriving at the ferry terminal…

Chungking Mansions breakfast...

Should that be 'ensure'?

Did Beijing drop atom bombs on Japan?

Does Reg post her own tweets, or does she have an assistant to do the techie stuff? You be the judge...

Separated at birth? Left: Thai crown jewels; right: Donald Trump's tasteful Cabinet Room adornments...

"They do something like it in other countries, so it's OK"...

Henceforth to be known as the Gale Terribly Group...

I know the answer! Feel free to park on sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, in the middle of the road, or any place you damn well please. You are among the small minority of Hongkongers who drive a car, and the other 90% can go f**k themselves.

By 'win-win' we mean 'slightly less of a disastrous mess-slightly less of a disastrous mess'...

A serious offense against plain English, at least...

Message to government from the HK Hemlock Observatory: It’s fine out there! People are walking their dogs and looking for a 7-11 that’s open. Cut this “Number 8” bs now. Thank you.

Happy Bastille day! (It's still July 14 in Tahiti?)

No thank you

Maybe the US Consulate will follow the example of pan-dem groups who experienced this, and vote to dissolve itself.

Home again. Nice clouds. Can you ID this port between Seoul and HK? (Great night market.) And souvenirs.

Because Hong Kong really, really, really needs more cars on the streets...

"Ugly potatoes". Once rejected for their nasty shapes. Then bought by environmentally and cost-conscious Seoul consumers who hate waste. Now trendy and even selling at a premium. Our friend, the potato.

From Bloomberg report on NWD $11bn refinancing deal. Perhaps part of the problem is that NWD's assets are *not* "worth a 10th of HK GDP" because they are actually just a bunch of concrete boxes?

A pro-pluralist message for HK leaders from Korea's King Yeongjo?

More Seoul: the "Come here, I want a word with you" building. It's a Presbyterian church. As in "We were not sent into this world to enjoy ourselves, but to suffer". Though statue suggests a dash of hip?

Spoiled for choice by Seoul potato pizza options...

Seoul Brutalist architecture quiz: spot the one that is not Dongdaemun Design Plaza...

Joined the Seoul fashion set at the Christian Dior "Designer of Dreams" exhibition. Yes, you can make anything interesting with the right set design. Would have been amazing on mushrooms. But wait! There's more!

Poop bag dispenser, Seoul...

Good day from Seoul Mid-Levels...

Seoul trendy breakfast. Close-up of glistening succulent gorgeousness. Reader, I ate it.

Greetings from Seoul...

Happy Ian Day, to all who celebrate the official* birthday of Ian Chan. Devotees at Airside mall are taking photos of fluffy toys next to cardboard cutouts of the great man. The temporary shrine also has a fancy mirror (as in Mirror, the band!) for selfies. *Actual DOB: June 9, per Wikipedia.

Kowloon City breakfast...

Tsimshatsui now...

Chungking Mansions breakfast...

Time for Hong Kong to step up as a hub-zone hub to bring untold benefits...

Wall of Shelley Street mosque, Central HK, now…

Three of Boeing’s four Dreamlifter freighters on the apron at Nagoya. (747-400 modified to carry large aircraft parts.)

Nagoya - Asia’s scary retro doll hub-zone…

Not impressed with it cooked as a kid in France many years ago, but recommend the sashimi version (with sea urchin gilding the lily). Horse...

Bach says "Nagoya beats HK as Asia's events hub-zone because it hosts the biggest international crepes expo." Detective Bottom, appearing at a crime-fiction gathering, says "I concur."

Nagoya communists...

It's French toast Jim, but not as we know it. (Nagoya. Note homily on onions around plate to add 'je ne sais quoi'.)

In case anyone's wondering...

Why I am not judging young Mainland tourists sleeping overnight in HK McDonalds…

But will it take bribes?

Never knew there were 74 'heavyweights', or that it takes so many to organize a funeral. Sounds like the Pope's send-off, except Francis didn't make billions selling Hong Kong's nastiest tiny overpriced apartments.

Seen through window from adjacent walkway, Hang Seng Bank takes opportunity of holiday weekend to give HQ main hall floor a deep clean, using latest technology...