Books in Hong Kong Reader series

As a world-famous food paradise, Hong Kong provides delicious food of the best quality in every corner – roadside stalls, dai pai dong, teahouses, private kitchens, traditional Cantonese restaurants, posh five-star hotels, Hong Kong cuisine will never disappoint you, if only you know how to name and order the food and dishes from the menu!Created by an author and illustrator who are both Hong Kong cuisine lovers, Culinary Charades invites you to go on a yummy trip with Yu-sze and Alex, two streetwise kids who not only discover the most native and best local authentic food in Hong Kong, but also share with you a picture glossary of the well-known food and drink one can find along Nathan Road in Mongkok.

In commemoration of the Hong Kong handover 20th anniversary, this book is a time machine that walks you down the memory lane. After decades of working and living abroad in England, Canada, Australia, and Northern China, five Hong Kongers finally come together in Hong Kong, their hometown again and rekindle the comfort of their old home, sharing unforgettable collective memories they experienced as they grew up in the delightful last days of the British colonial period in Hong Kong. With the brilliant illustrations of classic landmarks like the Kai Tai International Airport, the old Queen’s Pier in Central, and the landscape of the old Kowloon City District, The Summer of 1997 recaptures the beautiful Pearl of the Orient in the 1990s, the former British Colony in the last century.

This is book number three in the Hong Kong Children's book series: Unforgettable NeighboursTailor-made for young readers at ages 8 - 12 in Hong Kong and beyond, the Hong Kong Children's Stories series is a collection of six English stories written with the local Hong Kong context in mind. Ideal for language learning, leisure and reading aloud among Hong Kong readers young and old, the book series will bring together original short stories and pictures about various aspects of Hong Kong's everyday life: Book 1: Culinary Charades, which is about Hong Kong foodBook 2: The Summer of 1997, which is about walking down memory lane in Hong KongBook 3: Unforgettable Neighbours, which is about animals in Hong KongBook 4: Taming Babel, which is about the Cantonese languageBook 5: Herstory, which is about Hong Kong womenBook 6: A Tale of Two Haunted Universities, which is about Hong Kong womenA good neighbour is hard to find, and the old ones who used to come and play with you when you least expected them at your home sweet home would become part of your sentimental childhood memories for certain. In Unforgettable Neighbours, three siblings from Hong Kong, Andrew, Anna and Angus sit around a campfire and recall memories of the old Belcher's Gardens in Mid-Levels west halfway up Victoria Peak, the serene villa which their grannies used to live before it was demolished in the 1990s. Flashing back in their mind the wealth of greenery, private gardens, antique ponds, classy fountains and playgrounds in the sanctuary of their hearts, the three siblings go back in time, stroll in the Belcher's Gardens, and meet again their fun and bizarre neighbours who dare to steal bananas from the ancestor shrine, take afternoon naps underneath people's car bonnets, hang upside down the crystal ceiling lights, and lay eggs in grandpa's studio!

Here’s a biographical fiction picture book that narrates the true and brave life story of an amazing yet ordinary mother in a typical Hong Kong family. For hundreds and thousands of years, rarely any Hong Kong women have been featured properly and prominently in traditional Chinese genealogy. To do justice, the author and the illustrator join hands in bringing Hong Kong women back to centre stage. With accurate recounts and beautiful illustrations, this book pays tributes of love and reverence to all incredible moms who work hard and sacrifice silently for their children and family. Herstory is a must that feminist moms, teachers and librarians should get for their children’s bookshelf.