How to say soda, butter toast, egg sandwich in Cantonese and what do they stand for now?

Soda, butter toast, egg sandwich

汽hei3水seo2油jau4多do1蛋daan2治zi6 can imply petrol bomb A lot of visitors want to enjoy local delicacies at Hong Kong’s fast food shops and tea cafés to experience the local dining culture. The main difficulty for visitors to do so is they don’t know how to call the food names in Cantonese. Frank the tour guide is going…

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TIY (tour it yourself) the cattle-related places in East Kowloon

Cattle artwork

Visit East Kowloon’s cattle-related places by yourselves Travelers can find a lot of cattle-related places in the map of Hong Kong. All of their names have the sound “Ngau” (牛, cattle).   Most of them are in the New Territories and the rural areas. Frank the tour guide is going to show travelers the cattle…

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Check Hong Kong weather information for tourists before TIY, tour Hong Kong yourselves

Hong Kong weather information for tourists page in Hong Kong Observatory website

Hong Kong Observatory’s weather information for visitors It is important for every visitors to check the weather before TIY, tour Hong Kong yourselves. Everyone is equal before the weather! Even VIP visitors faced the annoying weather problems during their Hong Kong trip (For VIPs’ weather problems, please browse Frank’s another post). Hong Kong Observatory has…

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Take KMB bus route No 12 to see the West Kowloon

Take KMB bus route No 12 to see the West Kowloon

Take KMB Bus route No 12 to TIY, Tour West Kowloon yourselves Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) bus route No 12 shuttles between Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road) and Hoi Lai Estate. The bus route covers the West Kowloon Area.   It can help the travelers to TIY, tour West Kowloon yourselves, to see something…

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Can travelers take sampan boat ride at Sam Pan Street?

Can travelers take sampan boat ride at Sam Pan Street

Sam Pan Street has attractions nearby, but no sampan boat ride Travelers cannot take sampan boat ride at Sam Pan Street in Wan Chai now.   When the street was the bank of the artificial lake in the beautiful Spring Garden in the 1940s, its owner Mr. Dent did enjoy boat ride there. Frank the…

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5 typhoon shelters in urban Hong Kong for travelers to TIY (tour it yourselves)

5 typhoon shelters in urban Hong Kong for travelers to TIY (tour it yourselves)

Travelers can tour 5 urban typhoon shelters in Hong Kong yourselves Hong Kong sea view and harbor view are famous. Typhoon shelter, which is for the small and medium-sized fishing boats, barges and yachts to take refuge during the strike of destructive storm, is a main part of the scenery of Hong Kong.   Typhoon…

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6 tips to take Tai O to Tung Chung sunset ferry easily

Tai O to Tung Chung sunset ferry ride

6 tips for easy Tai O to Tung Chung sunset ferry ride Taking Tai O to Tung Chung ferry to enjoy beautiful sunset is a good TIY (tour it yourselves) activity on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.   Please read Frank the tour guide’s 6 tips for easy Tai O to Tung Chung sunset ferry…

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Screenshots of soap opera show the view at Hong Kong Victoria Peak in the mid-1990s

See the view at Victoria Peak in the mid-1990s through the screenshots of the soap opera It is interesting to see the past Hong Kong through history books, old movies and drama series. When Frank the tour guide watched the rerun of the long soap opera, A Kindred Spirit, Frank took some screenshots, which show…

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Breaking news: stamps show Santa Claus enjoys a working holiday in Hong Kong!

Santa Claus enjoys dim sum.

Hong Kong Post’s Christmas stamps show Hong Kong working holiday journey of Santa Claus When Santa Claus delivers presents in Hong Kong, he also tours around the city with his helpers and friends, reindeer, gingerbread men and snowman! Actually this is the main theme of the 2020 Christmas stamps of Hong Kong Post.   Frank the…

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Take KMB bus route No 2 to go back to ancient Han tomb museum from modern Kowloon

KMB bus route No 2

Travelers can TIY, tour Kowloon yourselves, by the time machine KMB bus route No 2 Apart from public ferry, taking public double decker bus is another good way for travelers to TIY, tour it yourselves, in Hong Kong. Frank the tour guide recommends Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) bus route No 2 for travelers to TIY….

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