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Seafood Room Grand Opening Party – 21 April, 2016

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Seafood Room held it’s grand opening party on the 21 April, 2016. Located on the 26/F of the new Tower 535 in Casueway Bay the restaurant offers stunning views across the harbour from inside, on the balcony and from a roof terrace that will surely become a popular party spot.
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Megabites: Street Food Markets

Street Food is the buzz word among food lovers in Hong Kong this April as there are two street food festivals starting this weekend. The Alley Street Food Market at PMQ starts on Saturday 23 April and will run every Saturday for initially 8 weeks, but if popular it’ll be extended.

The Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival is a weekend long event featuring ‘street food’ from restaurants in the area, live music and other typical LKF goodies.

Alley Street Food Market @ PMQ
The Alley Street Food Market offers an upmarket take on street food inviting well known restaurants to showcase their food and drinks ‘on the street’.

Up to 11 restaurants and bars will be participating each week, among those signed up already are: Beef & Liberty, Bread and Beast, Bread n Butter Café, Drunken Pot, First Floor, Moyo, Munchies, Nice Pops, La Paloma, Prancing Pony, Punch Detox, Topiary, VCNCY and Zuc.cch.ero

Each outlet will be offering three or four of their signature dishes and some created especially for the market. So for example you could pair one of Topiary’s fine cocktails the ‘Low Hanging Fruit’ with Moyo’s delicious Korean fried chicken and finish off your lunch with Bread n Butter’s Hong Kong crepe. After some live music or shopping, rejuvenate with a Bulleit Bourbon Sour and plate of raclette – melted cheese over potatoes and ham.

Entry is free and dishes are paid for in Guru Notes, with 1 Guru equal to HK$10, and dishes and drinks are expected to range between 4 and 10 Gurus.

Alley Street Food Market
Date: Noon-7pm, 23, 30 April, 7, 14, 21, 28 May, 4, 11 June 2016
Venue: Alley @ PMQ, 35 Aberdeen Street, Central, Hong Kong
Tickets: Free

Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival
A mix of 50 local and international street food stalls serving a variety of food and drinks at prices starting from $25 will keep you fed and watered as you enjoy free live music and games.

Entry is free and dishes are paid for in cash.

Among those restaurants and bars confirmed to participate are Ciao Chow, Porterhouse by Laris, Brickhouse, Biorganic, Brick Lane, The Butcher’s Club, Bubba Gump, Common Room, Craftissimo, Divine Marinade, Eagle Wine, Get Fresh Soho, Gourmet Tasty, Greatnuts, Healthy Chicken, Hexapi, Hong Kong Brew House, Jin Juu, La Chouette & Soulite, Mango King, Munchies x Taboocha, Nosh, Nutastic!, Reverse Tap, Rover, Soul Bro Taste, Stacks Ice Cream, Sunny Day Kitchen, Superbowlking, The Roundhouse, 七桌子 Table Seven

Lan Kwai Fong Street Food Festival
Date: 23-24 April, 2016
Venue: Lan Kwai Fong
Tickets: Free entry
More info:
23 April – 1pm – 12am
24 April – 1pm – 10pm

Women’s Sixes 2016 – Day One

Women’s Sixes: Day One Review – 17 April, 2016

There were runs and wickets aplenty on the opening day of the 2015-16 Women’s Sixes played at PKVR Reservoir on Sunday, 17^th April 2016.

HKCC and CCC are the two unbeaten teams after the first day’s play while DLSW have one win and one loss. The KCC and USRC teams are yet to register a win.

In the first match of the day, HKCC easily beat USRC by 37 runs. Ruchitha Venkatesh top scored with 15* in HKCC’s total of 3/48. In reply, USRC could only score 11 runs with Marian Lamplough claiming two wickets.

The second match saw DLSW account for KCC by four wickets. Keenu Gill, Reenu Gill and Renee Montgomery all reached double figures in KCC’s innings of 4/42 but three run-outs hurt their chances. Shanzeen Shahzad made good use of the short third-man boundary in scoring a quick-fire 20 that helped DLSW to victory in 3.5 overs.

USRC were back in action in match three and they put up a much-improved performance in losing to CCC by 26 runs. Pat and Cynthia batted through the innings as CCC reached 0/53 off their five overs. Pat hit 21 not out. Although the USRC women struggled to score runs off the bat, they still managed to reach a final total of 1/27.

HKCC continued their impressive start to the competition with a 16-run victory over KCC. Natural Yip and Chan Sau Ha both retired on 21 runs apiece as HKCC racked up 0/54 from their five overs. In reply, Keenu Gill retired on 21 and Reenu Gill hit 14 but their efforts were not enough to overcome the HKCC score as KCC finished on 1/38.

There was an exciting finish to the day’s play with CCC beating last year’s champions DLSW by two runs. The CCC openers Kary Chan (18) and Pull To (20) put on 54 runs for the first wicket as CCC posted the day’s highest score of 2/61. DLSW’s reply started well enough with Shanzeen Shahzad striking three boundaries. However when she retired, CCC came back into the game as the other DLSW batters couldn’t sustain the run-rate. Sacrificing their wickets so that Shanzeen could come back to bat, DLSW reached 5/50 with two balls remaining. Shanzeen returned to the crease and struck the penultimate ball for six but she failed to connect cleanly on the last ball and the DLSW innings finished on 5/59. Shanzeen finished unbeaten on 31, the day’s individual highest score.

Match Summaries:
Match 1: HKCC 3/48 in 5 overs beat USRC 3/11 in 5 overs by 37 runs.
Match 2: KCC 4/42 from 5 overs lost to DLSW 1/44 in 3.5 overs by 5 wickets.
Match 3: CCC 0/53 from 5 overs beat USRC 1/27 from 5 overs by 26 runs.
Match 4: HKCC 0/54 from 5 overs beat KCC 1/38 from 5 overs by 16 runs.
Match 5: CCC 2/61 from 5 overs beat DLSW 5/59 from 5 overs by 2 runs.

Source: HK Cricket Association

Google Looking to Censor Coverage of Charlie Hebdo Terror Attack

Today, over a year after the article was published google sent bc magazine a warning over bc’s coverage of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks and our publishing of a series of iconic Charlie Hebdo covers.

In essence the warning was delete/censor the Charlie Hebdo covers article or we (google) will deactivate your adsense account and stop serving adverts to bcmagazine.net.

Here’s a link to the article www.bcmagazine.net/tag/satire/

bc magazine may not agree with every viewpoint expressed in Charlie Hebdo. But free speech and freedom of the press are two of the cornerstones of a modern society so we are 100% behind their right to use satire and humour to expose the absurd and ask questions of hypocrites – without getting shot.

Fuck off google!

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Mr Black Launch @ Winstons Coffee – 18 April, 2016

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Australian cold press coffee liqueur Mr Black celebrated it’s local launch with an evening of coffee cocktails at Winstons Coffee in Sai Ying Pun on the 18 April, 2016
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Seru Rabeni (1978-2016) Memorial Game

Seru played rugby union from his early school days at Ratu Kadavulevu School in Fiji, and first played provincial rugby for Lautoka in 1998-99 while studying at the then Lautoka Teachers College before moving on to Suva in 2000.

He made his Sevens debut for Fiji in Dubai in 1998. He played at both U21 and U23 level for Fiji before making his test debut in May 2000 against Japan in Tokyo during the Epson Cup tournament. He played for Fiji in Hong Kong at the turn of the millennium, often referring back to the Hong Kong Sevens as one of his favourite rugby memories.

In 2001, Seru took up a three-year degree course at the University of Otago New Zealand and the following year played seven games for Otago in the National Provincial Championship before gaining a Super 12 contract with Highlanders for whom he played a dozen games over the 2003 and 2004 season.

He toured New Zealand with Fiji in 2002, and the same year played Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. He featured for the Fiji Sevens side at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Also in 2004 he played in all three games for the Pacific Islanders, scoring a try against New Zealand in Albany.

Shortly after this Seru signed for Leicester Tigers in England and subsequently Leeds Carnegie and Top 14 Stade Rochelais in France.

Seru started all four of Fiji’s pool games in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, and played in all of Fiji’s 2007 World Cup matches.

In 2013, Seru spent time coaching college rugby at Lindenwood University in Missouri, prior to moving to Hong Kong, joining Discovery Bay Pirates as head coach and player in 2014, and continuing to study for his MSc in Sports Marketing and Business Management through the University of Central Lancashire.

The Seru Rabeni Fund has been setup to continue Rabeni’s community work in Fiji and will initially be managed by the DB Pirates aims to continue his good work. Monies raised in the funds name will go to building on what Seru started, including the construction of a school, the development of a scholarship programme for young players in bid to have change their lives forever.

Seru Rabeni Playing Career
Fiji: 2000-2011 – 30 caps
Fiji Sevens: 1998-2002 – 13 competitions
Highlanders: 2003-2004 – 11 appearances
Leicester: 2004-2009 – 63 appearances
La Rochelle: 2010-2012 41 appearances
DB Pirates: 2014-2015 – 41 appearances

Seru Rabeni Memorial Game
Date: 16 April, 2016
Venue: HK Football Club
Tickets: Free
Schedule:
14.00 Gates Open
15.00-15.15 Opening and Tribute to Seru Rabeni (including Minute’s Silence and Video Tribute)
15.20-16.25 DB Pirates vs HK Barbarians (social men’s game)
16.35-17.20 DB Pirates vs HK Barbarians (ladies 10s’ game)
17.30-18.55 Pirate Islanders vs HK Barbarians (men’s “performance” game)
19.00-19.10 Closing

Volvo Ocean Race Comes to Hong Kong

Hong Kong is set to host its first ever stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race as the race organisers announced today that Hong Kong will be part of the 2017-18 race, which will start from Alicante, Spain in the autumn of 2017, with the fleet scheduled to arrive in Victoria Harbour in February 2018.

Widely acclaimed as the toughest round the world sailing challenge on the planet, the Volvo Ocean Race, originally The Whitbread Round the World Race, was first held in 1973. At a press conference today, Volvo Ocean Race organisers announced to bring the race to Hong Kong for the first time. The world’s premier ocean yacht race will transform the old airport in Kak Tai, with the Race Village offering features to attract sailing fans and those new to the sport.

As the 2014-15 race showed modern one-design ocean racing is hard fought, close and exciting sailing with boats finishing minutes apart after days and thousands of miles of racing. The 2018 Hong Kong stopover will also feature in-port racing, giving spectators the opportunity for a closer look and to experience the thrilling atmosphere of competitive sailing.

Antonio Bolanos Lopez, acting CEO of the Volvo Ocean Race, said “I am thrilled that the race is visiting one of the most iconic and beautiful ports in the world for the first time. We are delighted to welcome Hong Kong to the Volvo Ocean Race family and know that we will have a stopover here, which will be one of the highlights of the 2017-18 edition.”

Hong Kong brings the confirmed list of stopovers so far for the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 edition to nine, which already includes Alicante, Auckland, Cape Town, Cardiff, Newport (USA), Lisbon, Gothenburg and The Hague.

La Bo La Grand Opening – 12 April, 2016

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Vietnamese tapas and cocktail bar La Bo La celebrated it’s grand opening with a party on the 12 April, 2016.
La Bo La: G02-03 Lee Tung Avenue, Wanchai, Hong Kong. Tel: 2871 1711

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