Sham Tseng, Mother Goose
Talking of out of the way places to go to eat, also in mid-80s, I was taken to a place famous for its goose. I have to say that goose […]
Category Archives: DSD
Tung Shing Lei
Back in 1996-97, I was asked to take over some uncompleted field survey work for a proposed floodway bypassing Yuen Long town centre. I was tasked with doing a site […]
The Eiffel Tower and Lau Fau Shan peninsula
Not a lot of people know that on a clear day you can see the Eiffel Tower from Lau Fau Shan in the Northwest New Territories. Actually, it isn’t the […]
Closed Border Area (West) – Nature
The western end of the closed border area is a wide expanse of mostly active, manmade fishponds reclaimed from Inner Deep Bay. Some of the fishponds found alternative use as […]
Closed Border Area – Heritage
Shenzhen city (like HK and Kowloon) was built without a sewage treatment plant. There was a river nearby, however, so engineers piped the sewage untreated in to that. The Shenzhen […]
Yuen Long – beyond the highway
When Yuen Long Bypass was constructed to ease traffic congestion from road haulage via Lok Ma Chau crossing, the designers used the only tools available to them: a ruler and […]
Yuen Long – Heritage
Yuen Long has the reputation of being the go-to place for eating dog. It’s a bit lawless and after crossing Deep Bay and the fishponds of Tin Shui Wai, was […]
