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Hong Kong Blogs Review is a HK blog that reviews HK blogs.






給 訪 客 的 話


        Welcome to Hong Kong Blogs Review, the only website that reviews HK blogs in essay format. Between our reviewers, we have read hundreds of HK blogs thus far. The majority of HK blogs we choose to review are given a favorable or neutral rating. In general, most HK blogs presented here are worthy of your time; the bloggers have interesting things to say and their blogs are enjoyable or fun to read.

        Moreover, we are non-profit, non-commercial, and on the blogrolls or recommended lists of many bloggers of distinction. This is our fourth year online. Hong Kong Blogs Review is featured on the top result-pages of countless key-word searches by all search engines. This site is widely read; our audience is worldwide. Thanks to our loyal readers and supporters over the years, Hong Kong Blogs Review has become the most familiar fixture in Hong Kong's blogging world.

        To all those bloggers whose writing sometimes mystified us, often enlightened us, and invariably enthralled us, here, we give them our gratitude.


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Hong Kong Blogs Review is a Hong Kong blog that reviews Hong Kong blogs.
          Newly Discovered Blogs We Like
      Our Thanks ...
University of Hong Kong  -  Wiki website

          It is an honor indeed to be recognized by the University of Hong Kong, a top premier institution for higher learning in Asia. We thank the university for putting Hong Kong Blogs Review on the recommended list of its Wiki website under the section of Blogs and Commentary. We are humbled and thankful.

          We have enormous respect for the university, its tradition of tolerance for dissent and its regard for freedom of speech. We are proud to count many of its students and graduates our friends.
Living in Hong Kong is now in Asian Correspondent

          Elmer Cagape, the blogger of a popular HK blog, Living in Hong Kong, is now writing his blog in Asian Correspondent. We wish him continued success and thank him for a link from his new host to Hong Kong Blogs Review.
Things Asian Press

        We are delighted and appreciative for a link from Things Asian Press, a publisher and seller of unique travel books and other things on Asia. They are inclusive, various voices from different backgrounds can be heard in their travel website and publications. We encourage this type of perspective and we recommend Things Asian Press highly.
Joyceyland

          A bit of news, the blogger, Joyce Lau, a former editor of HK Magazine, now a writer for The New York Times, has informed us that she moved her blog to Blogspot. Here, we thank her for a link to our site from her new home.
Alice Poon

          We would like to give our thanks to Alice Poon (not to be confused with an actress of the same name), an outstanding writer and translator, for a link from her blog to ours.
Musings on Life in Hong Kong

        Here we acknowledge our appreciation to Professor Stephen Chan for putting a link from his blog to Hong Kong Blogs Review. Food, travel, social injustice, politics, HK Chinese, science and religion are among many interesting topics the professor covers in his blog, MUSINGS ON LIFE IN HONG KONG.
The Baroness of Tao

        We'd like to convey our thanks for a new link from THE BARONESS OF TAO. The baroness loves many things Chinese. This blog is a pleasure to read.
Your Links

        Our thanks go to many of you for putting links in your blogs, websites, and social networking sites to Hong Kong Blogs Review; we are grateful for your endorsement. The list is long and growing; we regret that we cannot thank you individually here. We know who you are; your support is heartfelt. We have to plan meeting together with some of you more than just once or twice a year.
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Samples of Some Reviews by Category   --   not a complete list of our reviews  :


= Recommended               = Top Blog
Breath of Fresh Air

Living in Hong Kong  

        - refreshingly different.



Washing the Book  

        - a world citizen and archaeologist with a world-view living part-time in Hong Kong.



Back on the Boat  

        - no, he is not a sailor, but he is an excellent writer.



London Girl Goes East  

        - a former Londoner and talented jewelry designer now living in HK.



Humor

Rothwell-Gornt  

        - it's done and gone, but the humor is still there.



Kung Fu Chewy  

        - a fan of Carl Hiassen, the blogger writes like him. This is one of the most entertaining HK blogs.



Writers   &   Artists

Hong Kong Digital Vision  

          - Hong Kong the beautiful.



An Aussie in Hong Kong  

          - a Cantonese speaking HK heartthrob from Down-Under.



Journey to Nowhere  

        - a blog for the thinking type, lovers of moving words and poetic prose.



Stuart Wolfendale Writes  

          - a writer who can really write.



Hong Kong Paintings  

          - an American expat painter with the American spirit.



Business

Global Property Guide  

        We recommend this business website. It's informative on HK's property market, though it's not a blog per se.

        Mr. Matthew Montagu-Pollack of GLOBAL PROPERTY GUIDE has been generous to us by providing a link from his business website to Hong Kong Blogs Review. We appreciate it and here we reciprocate.



Sun Bin  

        - an articulate HK businessman with an analytical mind.



Beneath the Peak  

        - an savvy Canadian guerrilla businessman on the home turf of the Asian business world.



China Oyster

        - we don't know how reliable his investment advices are. "Do not bet the farm", as the Americans would say.



Fun to Read

Hong Kong Fashion Geek  

        - a fashion blog by a fashionable girl.



Fashionography  

        - the blogger of this fashion and photo blog has beauty and brains.



White Boy from Wisconsin  

        - he can make you think and put a smile on your face.



Lola in Hong Kong  

        - life of a friendly, free spirited, fun-loving Brit in HK.



Toilet Bar  

        - an uncommon voice from a vanishing part of Hong Kong.



Diaries of a Vagabond Couple  

        - have fun traveling across the globe.



HK Living   &   HK Life

Gweipo  

        - an avid reader, her writing shows it.



Fragments  

        - interesting pieces of an expat life.



Living in Hong Kong  

        - refreshingly different.



Ordinary Gweilo  

        - a very ordinary Brit living a very ordinary life in HK.



Happy in Hong Kong  

        - a Christian couple runing a private school in HK.



Sailinghome  

        - philosophical and humorus.



The Searchlight of Insight  

Dim Sum Mum  

        - faith & love, and the other half.



Mhgoi  

        - one of the most creative people we've ever met.



Only Change is Forever  

        - a friendly Westernized native.



Urbanphoto  

        - photos and good writing.



Joyceyland  

        - a competent journalist, good at her craft and with people.



Politics   &   Society

Alice Poon  

        - informative, humorless but not dry.



Sun Bin  

        - Chinese politics and business by a Chinese with an analytical mind.



Hemlock's Diary - Big Lychee  

        - he likes the way it was, not the way it's now.



Daai Tou Laam

        - this American expat has a passion for politics of all sorts.



EastSouthWestNorth  

        - a no-frill website delivers illuminating contents.



Hong Kong or Bust

        - a tour of the minds of the former ruling class.



Eldon -- Online  

        - a retired chairman of HSBC living in Hong Kong.



See HK through Their Eyes

Reverse Immigration  

        - a stranger in a strange land. An unprepared sensitive soul newly landed here from the US.



Nury Vittachi

        - a different view of Hong Kong.



Big White Guy

        - a for-profit website for people outside of Hong Kong.



China Droll

        - a Norwegian expat with the usual perspective.



Something Different

Alex Hofford  

        - an impressive professional photographer. His photos tell the stories.



Hong Kong Blong  

        - a humorous American whose upper-class English is hard for us to understand.



White Boy from Wisconsin  

        - he can make you think and put a smile on your face.



Libertines Pub  

        - drop by and have a drink, we're impressed by the blogger's social conscience.



Live Better with Your ...

        - a blog for the Scientologists and linguists.



Visiting   or   Moving to HK

Batgung  

        - by two affable bloggers in our old-line British community.



Things Asian Travel  

        - an excellent travel web site we like.



Take a Ride to Hong Kong  

        - natives as your tour guides.



Food   &   Fashion

Hong Kong Fashion Geek  

        - a fashion blog by a fashionable girl.



Gloria Yu  

        - her name may be famous in the fashion world someday.



Diary of a Growing Boy  

        - travel, food, and more.



Fashionography  

        - the blogger of this fashion and photo blog has beauty and brains.



Style in HK  

        - fashion, food, weddings etc. by two bloggers who breathe fashion.



Bonjour Amanda  

        - a fashion and food blog by a HK TV celebrity and fashion model now living in Paris.



Christy Wong  

        - a fashion blog we like, with direct link.

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            Frequently  Asked  Questions


                      Why does this site look different?

          The source codes for this site are not generated by using "website designing tools" -- over 90% of websites on the Internet are designed by "tools"; Hong Kong Blogs Review is physically and personally written line-by-line in various computer languages by our editor. No, he is not a "computer whiz" or a "techie", he is a degreed software professional. Because this site is tailor-made and its codes are not produced like most other sites, Hong Kong Blogs Review looks crisp, one-of-a-kind, and has a smartly responsive feel.


                        Why is this site different?

          The blogs we present here are by bloggers of various backgrounds, not all from a certain region or a particular country. Unlike other " blog listing / reviewing / rating sites ", Hong Kong Blogs Review is not mainly a platform for bloggers to advertise or promote their blogs and for the hosting site to profit from selling advertisements.

          On the contrary, we have no financial interest in operating this site; Hong Kong Blogs Review does not accept any paid ads. Our interest is to provide our readers genuine critical takes and honest opinions on the blogs we choose to review -- we tell you what we believe to be true, not what we think the average reader would like to hear. We do not mince words nor have a shortage of praise. Hence, the difference you see that we hope you'd enjoy.


                        Who are we?

          We are sons and daughters of this city. Our families have found love and joy, and have shed tears and much sweat on this land for generations.
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Writer:   Tsing-Yi Girl (TYG)   since 2009
Writer:   Tuen-Mun Girl (TMG)   since 2007
Editor:   Wong-Chuk-Hang Boy (WCHB)   since 2007
Editor:   Sham-Shui-Po Boy (SSPB)   since 2007
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Our passion: Tang poetry; modern American literature; the Bard; number theory; prime numbers.

What intrigues us: why we like to give ourselves the type of names that our parents did not give us at birth; Riemann hypothesis is likely true.


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Hong Kong Blogs Review is a Hong Kong blog that reviews Hong Kong blogs.




Featured Review of the Month


London  Girl  Goes  East


        The name of this HK blog, LONDON GIRL GOES EAST, is self-explanatory. The blog is written by a London girl who has gone to Hong Kong, one of the most famous cities in the East. The blogger, Nathalie Melville, is a well-educated jewelry designer who relocated herself and her jewelry business from England to her new home here in Hong Kong.

        Writing in a clear, firm, calm, mature voice, the writing of this former Londoner doesn't betray the fact that the blogger is in her mid-twenties; Nathalie writes as if she is an older person with more than her 20 some years of life experience.

        In LONDON GIRL GOES EAST, the blogger recounts some of the places she visited and people she met so far in HK from a new comer's perspective, sometimes with keen insights and cultural sensitivity. Nathalie's eloquent narration reveals some interesting aspects of this city as well as the blogger herself. While it is fashionable for the young big-city dwellers to be slick, sly and coldly cynical nowadays, the tone of this blog is warm and pleasantly positive -- delightfully at odds with today's edgy blogging trend.

        Hong Kong Blogs Review highly recommends LONDON GIRL GOES EAST -- this HK blog by a designer of jewelery is a gem that is a rare-find.


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