Author: simon

New Tastes Amid Frustration at HK Food Expo 2018

The Food Expo is a frenetic, crazy mix of tastings, shopping and promotions – among those promoting are companies and products looking for exposure and distribution in Hong Kong.

Sadly what was noticeable among many of the new and existing products was the excess of packing materials and the use of single serve packs/portions in very non-recyclable materials. It’s sad to see this continuing push for convenience over conservation.

What is the point of looking to reduce the usage of plastic bottles and bags only to fill the sea and landfills will metallic plastic ones instead. Without wanting to get preachy, the only way that things will change is if you vote with your wallet.

There were no real standout new products/ideas that shouted wow! Here are some of the more interesting ones that you might see on your supermarket shelves and in online stores soon:

Durian drink/soup (top image) – Rich and creamy and a tasty way to have your durian fix anytime.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-PTg6pT7/A

A rich creamy textured spread perfect for pancakes, waffles, ice-cream.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-BbvkbDw

Savoury oats/porridge in a range of flavours – it’s different…

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-zV2sVgC

Air-dried fruit rather than freeze dried, there’s lots of existing dried fruits out there but these were rich and full of flavour.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-cKb2hw7

Flavoured noodles – waiting to test the texture and flavour.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-TmsXFWr

Not really a dessert more a spreadable cheese…

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/HK-Food-Expo-2018/i-pXK3XXs

Rich tasty honey cake!

And to finish off on the Expo’s first floor some of our favourite popping candy 🙂

Hong Kong Food Expo, US Exhibitors Reception – 16 August 2018

The annual Hong Kong Food Expo is in full swing at the HKCEC, amongst the almost 2,000 exhibitors are several American companies. United States Consul General Kurt Tong hosted a reception for the US food suppliers and distributors – Muldoon Dairy Inc, Northern Quinoa Production Corporation, American Trade International Inc, New Direction Foods, BMA Foods, Guglielmo Winery Inc, Gemsa Oil, Cal Asian Chamber of Commerce, CJB Group, Gliding Eagle Inc, Sea Salt Superstore and Vital Brand – at his Peak residence on 16 August, 2018.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Hong-Kong-Food-Expo-US-Exhibitors-Reception-16-August-2018/i-QsjNVk2

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Apink @ AsiaWorld Expo – 11 August, 2018

K-pop all girl band Apink returned to meet the Hong Kong Panda at AsiaWorld Expo. Apink – Chorong, Bomi, Eunji, Naeun, Namjoo and Hayoung – are known among K-pop fans for their ‘purity and sweetness’  and were awarded the icon ‘Innocent Girl idol group’.
Click on any photo for more concert images.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Apink-AsiaWorld-Expo-11-August-2018/i-6mKK7dV

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https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Apink-AsiaWorld-Expo-11-August-2018/i-3QDHWDV

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Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic Tour @ Star Hall – 7 August, 2018

Mike Shinoda, co-lead vocalist and founding member of Linkin Park kicked off his Post Traumatic Tour at KITEC’s Star Hall on the 7 August – it’s his first tour as a solo artist since the death of his Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington in 2017.

Shinoda’s setlist comprised of tracks from his 2018 solo album Post Traumatic and multiple hits from Linkin Park and Fort Minor. The show started with Fort Minor’s recent single Welcome, Shinoda’s solo works Place To Start and Crossing A Line before the Linkin Park hits Waiting For The End and an emotional piano version of In The End where Shinoda invited fans to sing Chester’s part.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Mike-Shinoda-Star-Hall-7-August-2018/i-9KZHRLR

Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic Tour Hong Kong Set List

Welcome (Fort Minor)
Place To Start (Mike Shinoda)
Watching As I Fall (Mike Shinoda)
Castle of Glass (Linkin Park)
When They Come For Me (Linkin Park)
Ghosts (Mike Shinoda)
Kenji (Fort Minor)
Roads Untraveled (Linkin Park)
Waiting For The End (Linkin Park) / Where’d You Go (Fort Minor)
Sorry For Now (Linkin Park)
Crossing A Line (Mike Shinoda)
In The End (Linkin Park)
About You (Mike Shinoda) / Over Again (Mike Shinoda) / Papercut (Linkin Park)
Make It Up As I Go (Mike Shinoda)
Good Goodbye (Linkin Park) / Bleed It Out (Linkin Park)

Encore
I.O.U (Mike Shinoda)
Remember The Name (Fort Minor)
Running From My Shadow (Mike Shinoda)

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Mike-Shinoda-Star-Hall-7-August-2018/i-TzLHBvd

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Photos: kenneviaphotography, Live Nation

12K Hong Kong Timelapse Video

Shot by Imagine This the timelapse video features 160,000 individually stitched RAW images, and down-sampled from 12K to 8K for YouTube.

According to the team the project took over 1,800 man-hrs of planning, testing, shooting, stitching and rendering, and over 20TB of data was generated.

There’s also a version posted on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/283337897

Ellen Joyce Loo 1986-2018 – RIP

Folktronica and cantopop singer Ellen Joyce Loo who initially found fame and success as part of the band at17 and later as a solo artist was found dead today in Happy Valley.

Sadly it appears the 32 year old singer known for her upbeat and optimistic songs about female and LGBT issues committed suicide.

Loo was born in Toronto and moved to Hong Kong when she was four. In 2001 at the age of 15, she co-formed the popular band, at17, with Eman Lam Yee-man. The critically acclaimed and popular band split in 2010 with Loo releasing several successful albums as a solo artist.

Thank you Ellen for your music, you’ll be sadly missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6pg05VQTuY
https://youtu.be/zqm5azKS-8c

689 Threatens FCC Over Andy Chan Ho-tin Talk

In a post on his facebook page 689 threatened the Foreign Correspondents’ Club with eviction from their clubhouse if they allowed Andy Chan Ho-tin’s talk about his views on Hong Kong’s future to go ahead.

https://www.facebook.com/leung.cy.108/posts/678471159182031

It’s amazing how thin skinned and insecure Xi Jinping and his sycophants are.

CY Leung did nothing but demean and denigrate the people he was ‘elected’ to govern during his time as ‘Chief Executive’ of Hong Kong – while enriching himself and his Beijing buddies.

Xi and the CCP by their actions and policies directly created the idea of an independent Hong Kong. By ignoring the needs and desires of HongKongers they sowed the seeds and then actively fertilised dissent and dissatisfaction.

Why because it’s easy to rule and skim the cream from the pot by pitting HongKonger against HongKonger.  Favouring and rewarding the sycophants, penalising those who don’t kiss the ring is designed to divide and distract while the oligarchy feasts on both.

If you think China is so wonderful, then why do so many mainland Chinese – including Xi and all his top CCP cronies – look to get their money out of China as quickly as possible!!

No other people in the world have so little faith in their own country when it comes to investing their own personal wealth.

Beijing and Xi want to destroy Hong Kong and it’s values including freedom of speech, an independent judiciary and an honest police force.

Yet it’s to Hong Kong that mainlanders flock to secure and safeguard their savings and future. You have to ask why they do this, if China – as supreme leader Xi loves to espouse – is such a wonderful country where all are equal and people’s rights are respected.

Xi and the CCP are so jealous of what we HongKongers have created without them that they need to destroy it because they fear it.

We do not agree with Andy Chan Ho-tin, but we respect that he has the right to express his views.

To quote the poem of anti–Nazi theologian and pastor Martin Niemöller

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Wanna One – ONE:THE WORLD

K-pop band Wanna One brought their <ONE:THE WORLD> tour to a packed AsiaExpo on the 29 July. The eleven piece band – Kang Daniel, Park Ji-hoon, Lee Dae-hwi, Kim Jae-hwan, Ong Seong-wu, Park Woo-jin, Lai Kuan-lin, Yoon Ji-sung, Hwang Min-hyun, Bae Jin-young and Ha Sung-woon – created via the Produce 101 TV show debuted in 2017 and kept a passionate audience happy with hits and a snappy show.

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Wanna-One-World-Tour-2018/i-Xbc2CVH

https://bcmagazine.smugmug.com/Bcene-photos/2018/Wanna-One-World-Tour-2018/i-KfvWfWN

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