Egg waffles, egg puffs, gai daan jai, bubble waffles – these are just some of the names for this Hong Kong street snack. Egg waffles have become popular around the world. But the snack actually has humble beginnings.
The egg waffle was first invented in the 1950s as a way to use broken eggs that could not be sold. Instead of throwing them out, these eggs were mixed with flour, sugar and evaporated milk. Read More...
REDHILL Plaza, Paliburg Group's two-storey, 44,000-square-foot shopping centre in the south of Hong Kong Island, will adopt a distinctly North American accent, its developer say. Scheduled to open early next year, the plaza is designed to mix service-type shops and stores on the ground floor with luxury American-style food and drink outlets on top.
There would be no traditional Hong Kong-style Chinese restaurants, and the shopping centre was not intended to cater to the mass market, according to Paliburg officials. Read More...
Given the runaway success of one painting in particular, perhaps it a little unfair to compare the top 10 lots of New York’s auction mega-week.
About US$2.3 billion of Impressionist, modern, postwar, and contemporary art was sold in five days, yes, but the numbers are skewed pretty dramatically by Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Having sold for US$450.3 million at Christie’s on November 15, the painting, which was rediscovered in 2005, represented around 19 per cent of the value of the week’s overall sales. Read More...