I previously wrote about my experience getting blood tests in a Chinese public hospital and how fast, efficient and inexpensive the whole process was. One of the things that struck me was how much better and more accessible healthcare is in the Chinese mainland than two decades ago when I
Beginning from the period of political unrest in 2019 through the end of covid, many people left Hong Kong. There was a period of time where it seemed like I was going to a couple going away parties every month. Singapore, Canada and the UK were anecdotedly the top destinations.
This evening, I popped up to Shenzhen to watch the recently released Chinese anti-war movie Once upon a time in the Middle East (ę¬¢čæę„é¾é¤é¦). It's the story of a Chinese chef who moves to a fictional country in the Middle East to work in a restaurant and
McDonald's apple pies are as American as, well, apple pie. But in 1992, McDonald's ruined their classic apple pie formula by changing the pies from being deep-fried to baked in the USA. All in the name of "health." As if anyone eating at
I miss the telephone. No, not the smartphone, but the physical landline telephone. With landline telephones, phone numbers were addresses connected to physical spaces and not people. When you dialed your friend's home phone number, you were literally causing a ringing sound inside the physical building that they
I was sending off family at Hong Kong International Airport this evening and took them to 2 CafƩ which is a chain serving Hong Kong-style diner food. For those familiar with the airport, 2 CafƩ took over the massive premises behind McDonald's in the pre-security departure
If I knew how much fun babies were, Iād have started having them much earlier. Sure they cry a lot but watching them grow up and develop their own personalities so quickly is the ride of a lifetime. I recently learned from my parents that their generation (baby boomers)
The world's largest deployment of App Clips is in China.
A strange incentive of the Hong Kong public healthcare system is that for some things it's actually faster and more convenient than the private system while still also being incredibly cheap. A few years ago, I fell between the stairs and pontoon in the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter
Chinese cities aren't making the same mistakes American cities made.
Amazon US prices used to be among the cheapest in the world. Leading up to and during the pandemic, I would do much of my shopping on Amazon US, which ships to Hong Kong for free without Prime and is 100% tax-free. Slowly over the past decade, though, their
Officially, Hong Kong's nominal GDP was US$424 billion in 2025 versus Shenzhen's US$557 billion. I assert that these numbers severally understate the relative value produced by Shenzhen vs Hong Kong in the same way comparing the USA's nominal GDP to China'