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...That same aesthetic weaves into the narrative of his store. “We want to group things together visually, from silver matchstick holders to brass fire tongs....
...Sung’s father’s brothers founded a corner grocery store that flourished into a major produce wholesaler....
...It’s an incubator for local fashion talent where I discover new designers, such as Shushu/Tong, Oude Waag or Uma Wang....
...“My nan practised rongoā, which is a form of Māori medicine where you source native plants from the bush at certain times of the day or night, and the store to me is reminiscent of being there....
...For Dickson, this seedy wasteland has become her defining oeuvre: cinematic paintings where darkness is uncovered by luminescent street signs above liquor stores and bars....
...I still remember hearing the terrible news of a fire there in 2008; many artists assisted in the reconstruction of this gem, such as Nan Goldin and Claude Lalanne, among others....
...That’s where nans have sat for hundreds of years, chopping veg for their families with a blunt knife, cutting towards their thumbs....
...The closing stores were selling CDs at HK$40 ($5) each, three for HK$100....
...For more experimental and cool tailoring with lots of colour, she suggests Drake’s, which has stores in London, New York, Tokyo and Seoul....
...“It’s likely to be citywide,” said Ronny Tong, who sits on Lam’s executive council, the body that advises Hong Kong’s leader....
...Chinese authorities opened an investigation into Didi two days after the company’s $4.4bn IPO last June and forced domestic app stores to remove all of the group’s core services, sending its share price...
...My nan’s advice about avoiding the “never never” (buying on finance) has kept me from going too deep into debt....
...Megan Winstone Nan Goldin — ‘Nan and Brian in Bed, New York City’, 1983 Nan Goldin had a major effect on me, as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency was one of the first photo books I purchased....
...The simplicity of its signature style has served as a blank canvas for art-world provocateurs too, with hit collaborations with Judith Bernstein and photographer Nan Goldin....
...) Tong Ah is an institution in Singapore....
...Walking round the neighbourhood, you’ll find record stores, leather shops and hip cocktail bars — there’s a map of local places here....
...This method, known as “direct air capture”, is at the forefront of carbon removal technology, and can store CO2 for thousands of years....
...“Any import food store in Hong Kong can offer you a selection of almost a hundred kinds of eggs from various countries,” one chef friend recently told me, which means he and other chefs can experiment with...
...Yuen Kee Dessert 32 Centre Street, Sai Wan, Hong Kong Yuen Kee Dessert, established more than 130 years ago, serves tong sui, Cantonese dessert soups — sweet, warm soups or custard served at the end of...
...Zhang Tong, a pharmaceutical equities analyst at Kaifeng Investment, said there “definitely was a bubble in the vaccine sector before”....
...If cacio e pepe has enjoyed a moment in the sun as a store-cupboard standout during lockdown, tres leches cake remains a well-kept secret....
...Once you arrive at the top, you will be rewarded with a different perspective of Hong Kong, overlooking Kowloon (the districts you can see are Choi Hung, Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin)....
...“I had to cut all the fabrics by myself, [which] I haven’t done for a long time,” said the Shanghai-based designer Yutong Jiang of ShuShu Tong, who showed his AW2020 collection on the final day of SFW....
...After the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20, the Department of State told Kurt Tong, the departing US consul-general in Hong Kong, to remove several critical comments about China from his final speech in the Asian...
...Matthew Seeley, a member of the Michigan Conservative Coalition that organised the protests, said he supported the initial lockdown but the new restrictions — such as on what items can be sold in stores...
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