Random city photos http://hongkongdailyphoto.com previously Hong Kong, one photo a day (Feb 13th 2006 -- Feb 13th 2008), now posting archive photos of cities I've been to Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en Delicacy http://hongkongdailyphoto.com/2008/06/15/delicacy/ http://hongkongdailyphoto.com/2008/06/15/delicacy/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:05:14 +0000 Lisi Mainland ChinaMainland China http://hongkongdailyphoto.com/2008/06/15/delicacy/ Hong Cun

A photo taken at Hong Cun last month, I believe this is some sort of Chinese prosciutto? More about Hong Cun, a UNESCO World Heritage Site at this link :-)

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Work sometimes takes me to interesting (or odd) places. I took this photo last October in Beijing, it was past midnight in the Forbidden City above one of the gates. Needless to say the Forbidden City is absolutely forbidden at such late hours. I used my cell phone to take this photo and was thinking: geez, I hope I wouldn’t capture some ghosts dancing in the image.

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This is my first post showing a view of Shanghai, a view from my window and you are looking at an ongoing competition to be the biggest, boldest and tallest building — on the right is the soon to be completed Shanghai World Financial Center, 492 meter, 101 floors; next to it is JinMao Building, 421 meter, 88 floors; then it is the Oriental Pearl Tower, 468 meter. I work nearby these buildings and on May 12th at around 2:45pm, we all felt the building swaying and realised there was an earthquake. After we evacuated from our office, we learned that the earthquake was more than 1000 miles away on the other side of China in Sichuan.

That was how powerful the earthquake was.

There are not many things we can do here, but I’m proud to share with you that I have organised a staff fund-raising which has collected almost US$40,000 so far; and we’ll continue to do what we can to help those one million people affected by the disaster. When Mother Nature is in charge, being tallest or biggest simply sounds so pointless…and dangerous.

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We rose early to see the famous sunrise on HuangShan. As you can see, I got a bit bored by that and found this scene more interesting.

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I went to HuangShan (aka Yellow Mountains) over the long weekend and want to show you this panoramic image of the canyon. HuangShan is a few hours away from Shanghai by train and is known not for its heights but the beautiful scenery. The weather was nice and I saw the bluest sky I had ever seen in China in the past 16 months. It was a good hiking trip. Learn more about HuangShan Mountains in this wiki link.

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Not exactly a photo about Kunming the city (in Western China’s Yunnan province), or the tea leaves well known in that area. In this photo you see part of the desserts ordered by a group of very stressed business travellers — 3 orders each of the 8 kinds of desserts on the menu, there were a total of 7 of us.

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Well, I’m sure the bride of Nanjing in the last post is atypical, these ones seem to be the typical ones (and the grooms too). I took this photo just a few minutes before I saw the atypical bride :-)

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