
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.
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?
曾經有人向小說家倪匡提問,當他在三藩市首度學習英語時,有否因為自己不諳英語而感到不如人。他的回答斬釘截鐵:「誰在乎!」舊約聖經有另外三個字,也許比上述三個字力量更強:「誰知道」……
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 …
When the novelist Ngai Hong (倪匡) was asked if he had felt bad about his English when he first learned it while in San Francisco, his answer was brutal: WHO CARES! Two other words that perhaps have a stronger force are found in the Old Testament: WHO KNOWS …
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 …
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 …
我的生命逐漸消逝。一個一百二十歲的老人。四十年沒有強積金的工作。喔喲!一份沒完沒了、令人討厭的苦差。我的工作不是做得頂瓜瓜,但至少我完成了你的託付。此刻,我站在這片土地邊緣……
I am dying. A 120 year old man. 40 years of work without MPF. Oh boy the work was an unending obnoxious hardship. I did the job though not aced it. But at least I finished. Now I am at the cusp of the land promised to my ancestors …
Why must an Israelite temple be automatically transformed into a Protestant church of the Gentiles? Why must a house of prayer in Jesus’ world be automatically transformed into prayer meetings in a Hong Kong Protestant church? It’s been so uncritically examined and still unchallenged …
What’s in those eyes? It would be difficult to imagine a rough-on-the-edges guy like Peter would even admit he was wrong. But here after meeting Jesus’ eyes, Peter went out and wept! And not just wept, but bitterly. It must have impacted him so strongly that he had to leave …
上星期約了老表一起晚飯吹水,想食潮州菜,選擇了位於土瓜灣的「四點金」。除了店面光鮮外,食物亦有水準,還加上服務友善,價錢親民,亦開始改變我對潮州菜館的想法……