Summer in Hong Kong

Our summer days in Hong Kong are spent two ways. One is taking a lovely hike in the nearby lush hills. And second is sleeping in, pancake brunches and lazying around the apartment. Today we do the latter.

 

Found

It finally feels like spring and it's a perfect time to go out in the afternoon in a shirt and pair of easy pants. Curiously, Hong Kong hustle seemed to slow down and I suddenly missed Manila.

Sundays are the best in Manila. Open streets, everything in slo-mo. Trips to Salcedo Market with mom shopping for organic greens and preserved fish and quietly savouring a toasted sugar crepe. Thinking about getting another piece of recycled wooden frame and saying telling myself why not. I'd do it week after week.

Here in Hong Kong, I crave for this kind of market or collective. And thankfully there's one that happens every once in a while.

The JCCAC (Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre) is an architectural conversion from the former Shek Kip Mei Factory Estate know for making cotton materials. It houses an Artist Village that  perpetuate art in all forms, from painting, sculpture, ceramic, printmaking, photography, animation and even music. Each artist or creative group holds room in the building. Better seen that explained. What wonderful rooms!

Last Sunday, the JCCAC hosted a handmade fair with students and young designers showing off their creations. I met up with my friend Adaline, the Doufou Mafia (check out her veggie food blog here) and went around the make shift booths and went in some of the artist spaces.

The Space

Artists Village

Kai Tak Comma

Level 2-13

GOD (Goods of Desire)

HK Street Culture Gallery

Level 2-09

Lumenvisum

Level 2-10

Sugar Ink Studio + Lam Pei Studio

Level 5-22

HPY CNY!

Experiencing new traditions is always a good thing. Kung Hei Fat Choi!

The Truth About Old Trains and Railways

Builders from the past make things not thinking that their works will eventually end up in museums. 

Space Invaders Sighting

When I saw this in Williamsburg I thought it must be part of a bigger project.

My Kind of Gig

People at Flap

Build it and they will come. I was amazed at how much individual style shone thru at Clockenflap today.

Mystical Monkey Mountain

Whilst the monkeys decided to hide on this particular afternoon, 

here's what sprung to life in mystical Monkey Mountain.

Kam Shan Country Park

north of Kowloon, Hong Kong

Slow-cooked Inspiration

Easily, I can spend hours here.

ACO (Arts & Culture Outreach) Books is a diamond in the rough that I stumbled upon coming out of a real estate agent's office along Hennessy Road.
I have been constantly on the look out for creative spaces in nondescript streets here and I'm happy to have found this book store cum tea and snack place.
Had a lovely chat with shop manager Kobe too. Looking forward to film screenings and exhibitions here in the future.

1/F, Foo Tak Building, 365 Hennessey Road, Wan Chai, tel +852 2893 4808

Opening hours: Tues-Thurs 1-8 p.m. Fri-Sun 3-10 p.m. Mon closed. 

Outdoors

When you scratch the surface you will discover that there is more to Hong Kong than shopping and dimsum.

Taken at Cental Piers,  Discovery Bay and Mui Wo.

Today

G.O.D.

TST, Kowloon