Chapter 01
The city eats standing up
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Destination · China
Hong Kong, China
A city that refuses to slow down
Forty-story towers, incense smoke, and a harbor that still believes it is the center of everything.
12 chapters ahead
Climate
Subtropical and uncompromising — summers are hot, wet, and close; winters are mild but can bite; typhoon season runs June through October and the city takes it seriously.
Best season
October through December: the humidity breaks, the skies clear, and the harbor looks the way it does in photographs.
Atmosphere
- coastal
- urban-dense
- cosmopolitan
- colonial-layered
- nocturnal
- early-rising
- culinary
- maritime
- intense
- walkable
- lush
- literary
- artsy
The chapters
12 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
Temples wedged between tower blocks
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Chapter 03
Vertical city, horizontal lives
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Chapter 04
The harbor that built the century
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Chapter 05
Dawn belongs to the old people
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Chapter 06
The city after midnight is different
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Chapter 07
Green hills thirty minutes from Central
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Chapter 08
Art lives between the old and new
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Chapter 09
Every story here has a deadline
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Chapter 10
Shopping here is an argument, not a leisure activity
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Chapter 11
The language question has no clean answer
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Chapter 12
The Pearl River Delta is one city now
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Keep wandering
You’ve finished Hong Kong. Where next?
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