After a turbulent year, we're listing 14 reasons to be grateful for the city we call home from our Tatler community
As much as they love to complain about the property prices, humidity and the traffic, Hongkongers know they live in one of the greatest cities on earth. From the culture to the views to the food, members of the Tatler community round up what makes Hong Kong special to them.
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James Louey
My grandfather, William Sui-tak Louey, founded the Kowloon Motor Bus Company with just a handful of buses in 1933. Our vehicles were commandeered for carrying troops by both the British and the Japanese occupiers for World War II. At the end of the war, we were left with one relatively unscathed bus. My grandfather restarted the bus business again from scratch.
Through 87 years of ups and downs, we have endured the test of time. To me, this is an example of Hong Kong’s entrepreneurial spirit and robustness. We have endured all kinds of peaks and troughs in our short history, and it is precisely this that makes our city interesting.
Charles Yang
I love Hong Kong for bringing Hollywood movies to us. Being multicultural has always been at our core. In the 1960s, going to the movies was a family event that required dressing up. I remember watching The Sound of Music: the original movie was a long version, and the cinema actually split it into two sessions, so you could pay to watch part one and part two. It was pretty clever of them to double the revenue.
The indulgence of watching a movie in the Princess Theatre that housed more than 1,000 people was just awesome. The cinemas today just don’t hold a candle to that. The grand theatres are all gone now and the Princess Theatre in Tsim Sha Shui has now become the Mira Hotel.
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