Gong xi baa cai!
In Chinese, the year that starts at midnight tonight the Year of the Yang (羊 yáng). Yang is an umbrella term that encompasses both goats and sheep – anything that […]
In Chinese, the year that starts at midnight tonight the Year of the Yang (羊 yáng). Yang is an umbrella term that encompasses both goats and sheep – anything that […]
I stand corrected. After four years living on Cheung Chau and almost four years of telling people that it was kind-of-lame and best avoided, I’ve finally done the Cheung Chau […]
In 2013 I spent Chinese New Year in Zhaoxing, a tiny village in Guizhou. The resultant food-and-firework-related trauma led me to put together a survival guide to the experience. Happily, […]
Another week, another wedding-related hiatus here on Little Yak. (Mr Yak and I celebrated our wedding for the second and final time with a Chinese banquet on Cheung Chau last […]
Last weekend, Cheung Chau was roamed by lions and mythical beasts in honour of Tin Hau’s birthday. The legend of Tin Hau, the Goddess of the Sea, has built up […]
As some of you may have gathered, Little Yak recently moved from Hong Kong Island to Cheung Chau. For the uninitiated, Cheung Chau is a small island about an hour […]
After two weeks of thinking about editing my Guizhou videos, I finally sat down and muscled through them this afternoon. And you know what? I really enjoyed putting it all […]
On a recent visit to Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, we were lucky to catch the opening party for a friend’s shop. The friend, Ah Kei, makes papier mâché heads for […]