【#富豪金殿 Regal Palace, Regal Hotel, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong】This shop used to be like a 名人飯堂 before the 2000 period within the CWB & Happy Valley crowd, just as people would visit The Chairman 大班樓 nowadays.
In comparison, I would say this was rated slightly around or above:
•農圃
•富瑤酒家 High end but more for supper
•西苑酒家 (Related to above)
•Fu Sing 富聲魚翅酒家
, etc in that sorta pecking order back in the days when it mattered. I noticed & ate, but didn't care back then. Only cared about the ultimate taste ☹️🤔
In fact from the inaugural HK & Macau Michelin 2008 Guide for a few years, this place still received a 1 🌟, they got the Hierachy of this place right actually! But since then it's been.. *The food is still amazing luckily, but the service was pretty non-existent or abruptly rude 尤其以前嚟開嘅都係非富則貴, oh I meant aloof.. Coming from a person who never complains about service. It was not doing their still very fine Kitchen team justice in balance to me..
🌟 脆皮牛坑腩, 咖哩汁. Crispy Beef Brisket aka Short Ribs deboned. With Curry sauce HKD $168. Still rather decent!
Direct comparison of this dish from within the same epoch, would be the still holding Michelin 1 🌟 #阿翁鮑魚 (Fu Ho Restaurant #富豪酒家, TST location). These can be traced back in history, not just when it suddenly appears as a trendy movement in Hong Kong 🇭🇰.
同時也有2部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過8萬的網紅Jackz,也在其Youtube影片中提到,【當年今日】 這是最好的時代,也是最壞的時代。 有人說我們的社會撕裂,但我卻感受到香港人史無前例的團結。 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Some said social cleavages emerged in our c...
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「為自由而讀」論壇系列活動
這是一個最黑暗的時代,也是一個最光明的時代,讓閱讀自由,讓自由閱讀,我們在閱讀中找到力量,於是天色漸漸光,一直到希望的光線,照亮著島嶼的每一個人,請相信,書本與閱讀的力量,能讓思想持續發光!請相信,每個人都有義務成為暗夜裡的火光!歡迎報名參加為自由而讀論壇系列活動。詳情請見以下網址:https://www.accupass.com/event/2008040545383435698270
主辦單位:美國在台協會、國家圖書館
時間:2020年8月20日至8月21日
地點:國家圖書館 - 國際會議廳 (台北中正區中山南路20號)
系列活動1:《十年》影片播放會暨映後座談會: 林飛帆 / 張國城
系列活動2: 「為自由而讀論壇」 : 林榮基 / 林夕 / 周奕成 / 明居正
Reading for Freedom
No matter how difficult things get, we can always find comfort in reading. Books open our minds to opposing opinions, and challenge our preconceived ideas. Academic freedom and freedom of speech are among the important #sharedvalues that bind together the United States and Taiwan as friends and partners. The situation in Hong Kong highlights just how precious those freedoms are. Please join us as we celebrate intellectual freedom in a two-part program entitled “Reading for Freedom:”
Part 1: "Ten Years" film screening and post-screening discussion. Lin Fei-fan, Deputy Secretary-General of the DPP, & Prof. Zhang Guo-cheng will join with us.
Part 2: Discussion of Hong Kong’s history of free speech. The panel will include Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay bookstore owner Lam Wing-Kee and well-known lyricist Albert Leung (Lin Xi), along with representatives from Taiwan’s creative and cultural industries, including Jou Yi-cheng, Founder and CEO of Sedai Group, and Dr. Ming Chu-cheng, Honorary Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University.
Sign up and Join our Reading for Freedom Series of events on August 20-21 at the National Central Library. More details: https://www.accupass.com/event/2008040545383435698270
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Exchange for Support (Lee Yee)
There was one other major world event on Jul 1, apart from the promulgation of the National Security Law for Hong Kong. A referendum was held in Russia on the revision of the country’s Constitution.
In the Newscast on the night before last, CCTV broadcast a key feature about the telephone dialogue between Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin. Putin expressed firm support from Russia for China's efforts to maintain national security in Hong Kong. Xi mentioned the Russian constitutional amendment, endorsed by a majority vote in a referendum, which will allow Putin’s term as the president to last until 2036. Xi reaffirmed China’s firm support for Russia's commitment to a development direction that is appropriate for the nation.
Not a word was uttered by China on Russia’s celebration of its 160-year occupation of Vladivostok. Instead, the compliments on Putin’s uninterrupted re-election were dished out in exchange for Russia’s support for the National Security Law.
Although there are 53 countries on the United Nations Human Rights Commission (and reportedly 20 more) that support Hong Kong National Security Law, once all the names of these countries are unfolded, it is not hard to spot that none of them are countries that would likely attract Chinese nor Hong Kong people to invest, study, or live in. There is not a single great power amongst them. However, though opposition to the law has only been voiced out by 27 countries, all of them are influential with significant leverage on world affairs. Of course, among them the most adamant is the United States, which has withdrawn from the Human Rights Commission. Now that Russia is at last joining the Chinese bandwagon, the situation looks a little less awkward for China.
On July 1, the referendum on the constitutional amendments in Russia drew to a close. 78% of the voters supported the amendments, the most important one of which is the "removal of the upper limit of the presidential term in the ‘re-election’ clause”. That is to say, all the presidential terms before the amendment takes effect will be revoked. Everything will be back to zero. Putin's term of office will start all over again. According to the new constitution, Putin can be re-elected as the president until 2036. He will have stayed in the highest power for the longest in Russian history, even surpassing the reign of Peter the Great.
Like Xi Jinping, who forced through the National Security Law for Hong Kong, Putin did not receive any blessings from other major international powers for his feat. There was no strong opposition because after all it went through a referendum. The United States and the European Union, however, were skeptical about the voting process, questioning whether there was coercion of voters, or repeated voting.
Russia's deletion of the presidential re-election regulations is analogous to China's deletion of the presidential re-election regulations in the year before last. With both world powers ruled by lifetime leaders, concerns about such a situation have been raised in international public opinion.
Despite all the twists and turns throughout history, in China as well other countries, everything boiled down to power struggles that basically stemmed from succession schemes amongst the most powerful, which in turn came with a lifetime tenure amongst top leaders. A lifetime tenure for the most powerful led to absolute power that bred absolute corruption, which is the root cause of all political complexities in human society.
All the struggles in the royal courts originated from the inheritance of power. The potential heirs, not the sons, of an emperor were the focuses. There was no place for normal family intimacies amongst sons, daughters, siblings, wives and concubines. Family relationships were built on associations with the potential heirs. For the past 70 years in the Soviet Union, the severe suppression of the people by the dictatorship, and all the brutal struggles have all been due to the inheritance of power at the highest level. During Mao Zedong’s rule, every single one of the never ending political movements of class struggles could be traced back to the inheritance of power at the top. Ordinary people were the victims as a result.
After millennia in the dark ages, it was not until 1776 when the United States became independent that the problem of inheritance of power at the highest level was basically solved. Finally, people could vote to authorize the succession of power in a legal manner, without bloodshed and contention. A system was established to ensure the separation of the three powers, a multi-party system, freedom of news reporting, speech, religion, and association, etc. as checks and balances of the highest power so as to prevent absolute corruption that came with absolute power.
In 1800, there were only three democratic countries in the world. By 2015, the number of countries authorized by the peoples’ votes increased to 130. According to Churchill, ‘democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ In all those that have been tried, plebs were inevitably victimized in the power struggles.
Deng Xiaoping might also have understood that power inheritance is the root cause of all political complexities. That was why he laid down the system for naming the heir for the generation after the immediate next. This system achieved a certain period of social stability. What is the impact of abandoning this approach? Putting China aside, what we saw in Hong Kong was the changes in the period from the Causeway Bay Bookstore incident to the implementation of the Hong Kong version of National Security Law.
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【當年今日】
這是最好的時代,也是最壞的時代。
有人說我們的社會撕裂,但我卻感受到香港人史無前例的團結。
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Some said social cleavages emerged in our city,
but what I witnessed was an unprecedented unity of HongKongers.
2019年6月16日,香港經歷有史以來最大規模的示威遊行活動。多達200萬人參與遊行,抗議政府修訂《逃犯條例》草案。除撤回修訂逃犯條例外,不少民眾要求行政長官林鄭月娥下台。身穿黑衣的示威人潮迫滿街頭,令港島一帶馬路宛如「黑海」。亦有不少人手持白花,紀念日前在太古廣場墜樓的「梁烈士」。示威者手持不同的標語表達訴求,當中包括「學生沒有暴動」、「釋放被捕人士」、「追究警暴」等等。當首批遊行人士抵達金鐘添馬公園終點的時候,仍有不少遊行人士在維多利亞公園等待出發。儘管香港在當年暑假發生了一連串的事件,特首林鄭月娥要到9月初才正式撤回備受爭議的《逃犯條例》修訂草案。
毋忘,勿諒。?
0:00 On 16 June 2019, Hong Kong experienced its largest protest in history.
0:05 As many as 2 million people demonstrated against the controversial extradition bill.
0:09 Many called for Chief Executive Carrie Lam to step down.
0:12 Protesters wearing black clothes filled streets and turned roads into a sea of black.
0:16 Many also mourned “martyr” Marco Leung, who fell to his death at Pacific Place the day before.
0:22 Demands reflected in placards included "Students are not rioters", "Release detained protesters" and "Investigate police brutality".
0:29 When the first group of marchers arrived at the march's endpoint, Tamar Park in Admiralty, there were still protesters waiting to leave Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
0:35 Despite the infamous 721, 831 incidents throughout the summer, Carrie Lam did not declare full withdrawal of the controversial bill amendment until early September.
0:41 Never forget. Never forgive. ?
#兩年前 #二百萬零一人 #香港人加油
References:
【616遊行全紀錄】周一早晨示威者商議後轉往添馬公園集結,金鐘夏慤道重新開放
https://theinitium.com/article/20190616-hongkong-extradition-bill-protest-live/
Hong Kong Timeline 2019-2021: Anti-Extradition Protests & National Security Law
https://www.hrichina.org/en/hong-kong-timeline-2019-2021-anti-extradition-protests-national-security-law
Hong Kong protest: 'Nearly two million' join demonstration
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48656471
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#ChaTraMue #曼谷自由行 #曼谷自由行2019 #泰式奶茶
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One of Thailand’s most popular and beloved tea brands, Cha Tra Mue, is open their first Hong Kong flagship store on April 27.
With more than 70 years of history and renowned for their addictively smooth (and sweet) Thai milk tea and green tea beverages, Cha Tra Mue has expanded to Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Beijing and now Hong Kong. Using only imported ingredients straight from Thailand such as tea leaves, coffee beans, lime and honey, every order from the Hong Kong outlet is guaranteed to taste as authentic as it is from the streets of Bangkok. Also, Hongkongers can look forward to the pandan flavoured bubble tea – both incredibly chewy and photogenically green.
Located on 49 Jardine’s Bazaar in Causeway Bay, the new shop also offer family-sized boxes that come with 50 Cha Tra Mue tea bags. So you can get your milk tea fix anytime you want at home.