HK Food & Thoughts
Welcome to my blog!
I share my Hong Kong experience, places and foods in Hong Kong and Macau, thoughts on faith and things I couldn’t figure out.
I hope you like them, get stimulated, provoked, and then comment.
Be warned: it is a blog of a babyboomer with Christian background, with all the baggage.
在 google 找尋食評,Atlantikos 的分數是 above average,不是最高的那一群,但不少 YouTubers 異口同聲介紹這間食店。雖然分數不是甚高,見到這麼多人介紹,不妨一試,當我食完第一餐,就完全明白了!
所有花朵,不管甚麼品種,生長時都朝一個方向:太陽!不僅是太陽花!植物學家當然有他們細緻入微的解釋。我不懂這門學科,沒甚麼好說的。我只是思考:花兒朝太陽生長,對於創造有何啟示呢?
Peace. Such a popular word. So easy for some, remote for others. A poem-like verse (Luke 2:14) will naturally transition into the topic of the season: real peace. Where’s peace to be found?
I only remember one day my mind recalled my dad had said he always prayed to his God. Even after he became too arrogant in front of Him, and suffered, he humbled himself, prayed to his God, and his prayers were accepted!
All flowers, regardless of kinds, all turn towards one direction: the sun! Not just sunflowers! Botanists of course have fulsome explanations. I’m not qualified, so will keep quiet. What I ponder is this: What does the fact that flowers invariably do that say about the creation?
Ravens are unclean and detestable, the case is closed. Who would touch them? No one would use them! But perhaps God! It’s recorded that the prophet Elijah was fed by foods brought by none other than ravens! There’s hope for someone like or labelled as ravens …
2019 年年底,新冠肺炎在武漢爆發。任何當時在香港的人,都會記得那段活像恐怖片情節的日子,那種持續的恐懼揮之不去。就在這可怕的氛圍之中,有點事情發生,值得我們記錄下來……
「我們生活、行動、存在都在於他。」這句話據說是希臘克里特詩人埃庇米尼得斯(Epimenides)所說的。這幅圖畫與母親節相當吻合。試想。我們豈非時常聽到「自然之母」(Mother Nature)的稱呼嗎?
End of 2019, Covid was exploding in Wuhan. Anyone who was in HK then must recall the movie like scenes with lingering fear. Right in the middle of this scary movie, something worth remembering took place …
“For in him we live and move and exist.” A saying often attributed to the Cretan poet Epimenides (circa 6th century BC). And on Mother’s Day it is apt. Imagine. Haven’t we often heard of Mother Nature?
I always imagine a photograph showing an 80 year old talking in a 100 year old HK tram over her cellphone to her grand children in overseas captures perfectly human achievement in our life, through a phone …
Nowadays IT is powerful and convenient. Say you are looking for hotels in San Francisco. So you can set FILTERS of prices … But then why doesn’t Amazon give prospective customers a FILTER that says “MADE IN”?
Lots of ministries, those which have long been getting less resources than preaching and teaching, for reasons still unknown and unjustified. These are summed up as Caring Ministry, which to me are really “pastoral” …
Trump, a US President faraway from HK as a target for a HK Christian theology professor in a Government funded University is way too rich whilst the HK political leaders who mucked up HK since 2019, and especially those who …
This is a heart-felt message from an old timer. Years ago, a well respected retired Bible Professor told me he had one major regret: that his ministry was at the expense of him attending church without his wife for many years …
This is a piece of recent news with a strange twist. That’s how HK churches usually pick their leaders, and in this case deacons, in the Catholic Church. This piece will explore how far secularism has eaten into the core of churches …
I know the classic Christian doctrine that repentance is the only path to forgiveness. Even when you repent just before you die, even if you can’t do penance, but you must confess your sins. The suggestion that God’s mercy having been widened to those who haven’t repent, seems like colouring outside the lines …
It would be hard to be sure if she was surprised. This guest Jesus knew what she was doing! Not only let her do it. But he knew why! Clearly, Jesus saw differently. He saw her motives. He saw her gratitude. Gratitude from forgiveness. And Jesus said …
Some weeks ago there was a once-a-half-century major news. No it’s not Trump’s so-called “hush money” trial, rather the total eclipse of the sun. Years ago a trained physician well known for his preference for historical accounting recorded the total eclipse of his generation …
Life is so NOT easy. Then there’s the million dollar question: what is best next? The most serious of all: how to secure forgiveness and eternal life? Alas! Grace is found.At a juncture with surprising ease. It takes some reading, and simple trust ...
上世紀九十年代末,當時尚未成名的神學家范胡澤(Kevin Vanhoozer)曾經對班上的學生說:白袍取代了牧師袍。他的意思是甚麼?當西方文明發展到啟蒙運動之時,「去問你的牧師」已經不受歡迎……
One would have thought that in this day and age, people wouldn’t be so stiff to get hung up on this woman in authority thing. I was so wrong! It’s not the place to relitigate the interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:12. So let’s challenge something more fundamental …
I’ve often memorised the Greatest Commandment as love God and “love people (人) as myself”. In English, there’s no room for confusion: your neighbour, not “humankind”. However, in today’s ideological world, even the English specificity is lost …
In late 1990s, then not as famous theologian Kevin Vanhoozer told his class: the white coat replaced the priest’s robe. His point? As enlightenment dawned upon civilisations, it was no longer popular or trustworthy “to ask your priest” …
I am now a grandfather of a two year old boy. My grandson reminds me of how I was once a father of my son and daughter. I remember the best and the worst moments as a father, with respect to one particular aspect: how the state of my children affected me …
These are three strong women. Each has her own story. Some more privileged. Others less so. Whatever, they found a way to be content at adversities. They found strength and rationale to remain strong. They had access to …
鹹魚肉餅臘味煲仔飯是群記一款勁爆的菜式!群記用料永遠上乘,梅香馬友一大塊,其香味在煲焗之時已經全面滲入飯內,當煲蓋揭開的那一刻,香氣隨水氣上升,簡直就像在天堂一樣!