Monthly Archives: May 2011

Green, Hong Kong

Trawling Protest

Ferry from Central to Cheng Chau


After a delay of 15 minutes, our ferry ran through the trawler ship barricade. They were protesting at the removal of their fishing licenses by the HK government. While I can understand their dilemma, it is their livelihood that is being taken away from them, this form of fishing plays havoc with the ocean ecosystem in the non-selective manner they destroy and capture. The question should not be whether this form of fishing should be allowed to continue, but how the government will assist these fishing-families in finding an alternative way to sustain themselves.

China, Green

Crayfish with the Shell

Yangshao


The Chinese find it both amusing and slightly bemusing at some Westerner’s squeamishness at eating non-filleted fish or meat on the bone. If anything cooked and eaten on the bone it is so much more delicious. When you wander through certain supermarkets with their neatly vacuum packed slabs of nondescript meats it is easy to imagine they are some form of injection moulded polymer. Is it this distancing of where food comes from what is resulting in the vasts amounts of food wasted? Lost is the respect of  what we are eating.

Architecture, China, Lighting

Great Impressions

Hangzhou


Impression Westlake 印象西湖
A sad love story produced by Zhang Yimou, music by Kitaro, performed by a cast who dance on water. It may be a tourist attraction atop an artificial lake, but it is impossible not to be impressed.