Hello From Hong Kong

Welcome to episode 22 of Hello from Hong Kong, I want to preface this episode by saying it’s an older discussion I’ve had sitting on the Periscope archive for over a year now. I’ve just uploaded the video version to YouTube and this month’s episode is with Jill and John from Clyde, New Zealand. Jill by the way is a Horticultural Scientist. You can find her on Twitter @apricotqueen

The episode that should have come out has some technical quirks I’m trying to resolve and if they are, it’ll be released for July, stay tuned for that one as it’s about craft beer pertaining to the Hong Kong region.

I met Jill and John while making a live-stream in a high end supermarket and the three of us weren’t really shopping as our primary purpose for visiting. I took advantage of the situation and invited them to the show, they accepted and we sat down for nearly an hour talking about the quality and selection of international food in Hong Kong compared to other parts of the world, especially with New Zealand. We talked about Japanese food, the frustration of exporting produce to China, clearing up some of the misconceptions from China, tourism in New Zealand and what’s the deal with Manuka honey?

As we converse, we also take questions from the live audience on Periscope so be aware of that.

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In this episode, I sit down and chat with Trianne about upcycling, at the beginning I actually talk about the effectiveness of instagram before getting into the green meaning topic of upcycling and other quick discussions around living a greener life.

https://www.upcyclethat.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling

00:20 - Is Instagram Effective?

01:36 - Who do you reach on Facebook?

02:29 - What is upcycling?

03:08 - An example of upcycling.

03:20 - Why did you start upcycling?

06:16 - How do you communicate upcycling?

08:21 - Where do the ideas come from?

10:54 - Raising awareness.

12:45 - Who are you?

13:15 - What else have you upcycled?

15:24 - When did you start upcycling?

15:49 - What's next to upcycle?

17:08 - On Raising awareness

18:25 - What does it take to upcycle?

20:03 - What other countries are doing.

22:24 - What else do you do?

23:00 - What can Hong Kong do?

24:05 - Doing more isn't easy.

In this episode I'm take the podcast to Mongolia, and we meet and get to know Edwin and Dulguun, both who live and work in the capital of Ulan-Bator.

Together we discuss how Edwin came originally as a peace core volunteer, Dulguun grew up in the country and the city, so she has kept her nomadic roots and through her we learn a little bit about the nomadic lifestyle and eating wolf. Yes, you read that correctly.

We also get some insight into gender equality, how women are treated, talk about marriage rites, touch on gay culture, the Russian influence and history and the Korean links to Mongolia.

If you're thinking of travelling to Mongolia maybe you'd be interested in knowing how easy is it to get around Mongolia just using English and the cost of living in this country.

At the very end we also share the secret to retiring early.

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In this brief episode sort of like a conclusion to the previous meeting we had together in episode 8, we find out why is Nate moving back to the US, we also talk briefly about the quality of the jazz scene in Hong Kong and New York, where Nate has gigged and we discuss a bit about canto pop dying and why?

Show Links

Visage One - https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/music/visage-one-1

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nate+wong+music+

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I'm back with Gregory Rivers (河國榮) and we basically pick up where we left off when we last met in 2016. It's been that long, but seems shorter since Gregory was in episode 13.

In this episode I do some housekeeping, so skip the first 6 minutes if you don't want to listen to me and just get to the meat. Gregory starts around the 7 minute mark and we discuss where did Gregory learn Cantonese?, Who does he work with in HK now? We talk about online shopping in Hong Kong (It's a bit pants), discuss Australia's BIG things and how famous Gregory is in Mainland China along with cultural Appropriation and the difficulties with promoting oneself today.

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In this episode we sit down at the courtesy of The Mahjong in Hong Kong to chat with Melody Leung, a competitive natural body builder. Together we discuss Melody's early days, hitting failure in competitions, we talk about philosophy and goals, the causes and effects of both positive and negative influences on the body.

SHOW LINKS

The Mahjong

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Show Notes

In this episode I sit down with Gregory Rivers, an Australian actor living and working in Hong Kong for the past 30 years. Gregory Rivers has made himself a career as the go to man to represent a white character in a drama or TV show. It helps that Gregory is fluent in Cantonese.

We start talking about the errors in Rivers’ wikipedia page, his time spent learning Cantonese and issues using it for work. Did you know Yale University produces more accurate translation material than Hong Kong University when it comes to producing cantonese language books. Gregory shares his earliest days working as an actor; the pressure of his first job, the various roles he’s been in over the years, dealing with his fame on the street and not taking it too seriously. 

Topics soon switch to the local economy for locals and tourists and Gregory’s 30 history with Hong Kong.

For more information go here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Charles_Rivers

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In this episode I sit down with Ken Choi of X-Game surf shop in Chai Wan

Chai Wan is on the far eastern side of Hong Kong Island, it use to be a large industrial sector and now a lot of the buildings have been converted into coffee shops, unique fashion stores and niche shops like Ken's desiring lower rent and more space than they would get in the more central parts of the island.

Together we discuss Ken's personal history with surfing, he was a bronze medal winner at the 1982 Asian Games for Team Hong Kong/Great Britain and we discuss the state of surfing culture in Hong Kong. During the discussion I take questions from a live audience on Periscope and I reference some articles which are included in the show notes.

SHOW LINKS

How surfing suddenly became cool in Hong Kong, and its ’70s expat roots)

Surf's up as Hong Kong catches the wave | ThingsAsian)

Interview: Hong Kong surfing expert, Ken Choi, on the Hurley Surf Cup 2009

Lee Lai-shan - Only gold medal winner, in windsurfing for team Hong Kong, Great Britain in 1996).

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